He gently poked her cheek, thinking his finger would pass through, but instead, her cheek dipped and the smooth soft texture of her face made his heart race. 1

Is this real? Is my mum really back?!

He touched her nose and then played with her eyelashes. When he saw her eyes moving, Valen chuckled but didn’t stop. He continued to play with her face before an idea struck him.

He got down from the bed and hurried to his wardrobe where his school bag was. He brought out a marker and hurried back to the bed.

Valen uncapped the marker and started drawing on his mother’s face with soft laughter now and then.

Once he was done, he kept the marker on the top of the drawer beside the bed before he wrapped his hand around her and went to sleep again.

A few hours later, Jeslyn awakens to the delicious aroma of coffee.

“Mum, you’re awake.”

Jeslyn sat up and looked around, her son had brought her breakfast and was arranging them on the table with his uniform on.

“Son?” She’s finally home, back to her comfort zone.

“I made you something to eat. This is one of the dishes I learnt in your absence. I hope you like it.” The boy tried not to smile. He was quite nervous that his mother wouldn’t find the food to her taste.

When Jeslyn heard that, she was stunned. “You learned how to cook? And this is for me?”

don’t cry, your eyes are gathering mist.” The drawings on his mother’s face made him giggle.

“Hahaha…that’s my son!”

arranged beside each other. A cup of black coffee sitting by the side. Strawberries, berries, and diced bananas arranged beautifully inside a

This is

boy urged,

eyes lit up after a sip. “This tastes delicious!” With the other hand, she picked the toast

would be discouraged, so she exaggerate, else her son would be discouraged, so she gave him a thumbs up. “The toast is

than the Chefs in the house. If she said his egg tasted better

him to take a seat. Valen didn’t eat the toast but

what happened to

encountered some misfortune and had to jump from an eight story building.

chances of

a look at her and see if there’s

what she was going through. She didn’t address Mr. Hwang as her father, so the intelligent Valen immediately knew that their relationship was

thing I didn’t because I wouldn’t have known what to do with his face in sight.” Jeslyn’s hold on the coffee cup tightened

his hand on the back of his mother’s hand and said, “Don’t be aggrieved, mom, everything will be fine once

at her son and her anger died down. “You’ve grown taller. How

regular boring lessons and annoying

the

“Just don’t give me a sister if she

your girlfriend?”

become a

in the air!”

fun of him would make her this

did in school yesterday, Valen didn’t know when a snort

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