65 Heart to heart
“Ava can we please talk?” mother pleads when I move to leave.
1 stare at her, not sure what she wanted. What was there to talk about? Hasn’t everything already
been said and done?
“There isn’t anything for us to talk about, Mother” I insist.
Looking back, I see now how I made a distinction when it came to her and father. While Emma and Travis referred to them as mom and dad, to me they were Father and Mother. Clean, cut and
completely impersonal.
I never truly acknowledged them as my parents, because deep down I just knew. Parents don’t hate their children. Parents don’t neglect their child and treat them like shit. I made what I called them impersonal because on a spiritual level, I didn’t consider them my parents.
“Please, I beg you” she pleads with tears in her eyes.
It was so strange looking at her with tears in her eyes. Her face flushed and soft. This is a look I’ve never seen her direct at me. Her face was always in a frown. She always looked at me with a certain cold indifference that was specifically targeted at me.
“How about you show me to our table as they talk?” Martha, Rowan’s mom asks Corrine while
cutting off what I was about to say.
Corrine looks skeptical. Like she didn’t want to leave me. After all, it was known that the Sharp family weren’t my biggest fan even though I was apparently their daughter.
Martha doesn’t give Corrine a chance. Instead she links their hands and pulls her away in the
opposite direction.
I sigh and take my seat. “Let’s just get this over with, looks like you won’t leave me alone until
now before I change my mind”
used to adore this woman back in my younger days. When I was around five or
when I realized that she didn’t feel the same way. It changed when I
if I was more of a burden,
her seat before taking my hands in hers. I pull them away.
part of me that had longed for
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sorry, Ava More than you’ll ever know” she
it. Pray for it. Hope for the day to come. Now that it’s here, the joy I thought I
a child and instead of embracing you, I pushed you away. You loved me, loved us, but we gave you nothing but scorn. I wish more than anything that I could go back in time and change
before continuing.
best daughter anyone can have. It took almost losing
If I was my old self, then her tears would have
tears meant absolutely
by a few drops of tears. It just doesn’t work like that. It would heaven’s intervention
cut to the crap okay? If this is about the threat my mother made on your company, we can discuss it as adults. There is no need for you to try and sweeten me up, that shit
emotionlessly.
years. This was nothing compared to what I had to endure
she looked hurt. I was sure that the
their family
think that of me. That you would think that the only reason I was apologizing was so I could save the company. Then again I
of my own actions that you find
tell she was the same woman who used to yell at me
Who used to treat me like I didnt matter.
as she
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