A Cue For Happiness

Calling Mommy

the airport today, Sam. She liked her so much that she called her Mommy several times. You should’ve seen her sulky face when they were about to part. Her eyes were flooded with tears that kept dripping down her face!”Thinking back to the earlier events, Steven still felt that it was all very bizarre.Although the Bowers family had never publicly announced the twins’ birth mother when Samuel came back with them back then, they were well aware that she was the daughter of the Nichols family, Yara.Sophia had never uttered a word to her mother, so why was she addressing a total stranger as her mommy?Like his brother, Samuel was also puzzled. “Tell me about that woman,” he said as he narrowed his eyes.“I wouldn’t say that she’s ugly. But she had freckles all over her face and was ordinary-looking,” Steven replied as he tried his best to recall her appearance. “Her facial features were very plain. There wasn’t anything distinctive about them.”“I wasn’t asking about her looks, Steven.”Steven was rendered speechless.Samuel then added solemnly, “Since you know the woman is special to Sophia, Steven, why didn’t you send someone to look into her background?”He had a gut feeling that this ordinary-looking woman would be the key to curing Sophia’s aphasia.Steven slapped his thigh as soon as he heard his brother’s words.“Dang it. How could I forget such an important matter? I’ll do it right away.”In a bedroom on the second floor, Franklin Bowers was sharpening some colored pencils for Sophia.Due to his status as the eldest grandchild of the Bowers family, he was placed on a higher pedestal compared to his sister. However, this was just an act for outsiders, as he was the perfect embodiment of an overprotective brother.Taking the colored pencil from Franklin, Sophia drew a woman on the drawing paper.The woman was slim, with a flat nose bridge, thick lips, and a face dotted with freckles. Oddly enough, the little girl was grinning the entire time she was