Chapter 15
“Tomorrow, I won’t be by until the afternoon, Mom.” I sit next to my mother in the rec room of MPF. “Remember, because I start school?”
She nods, but her eyes are blank. The nurse told me she had a rough night, and it was glaringly obvious in the exhaustion written across her face.
“You’re sad,” she tells me, and it’s something she has said every day this week.
“Just got a lot on my mind,” I reply.
She reaches over and pats my hand. “She will come back to you.”
I smile at her, though I know it doesn’t show in my eyes because the eyes are the window to the soul, and my soul is lost.
“Mom, are you okay?”
She looks away from me. I watch as she mumbles something under her breath, but she isn’t speaking to me. She isn’t speaking to anyone I can see. I reach out and take her h
