In My Desperate Time

The morning of the next day, I present Frances with my requests, and to my surprise, he actually agrees.

I get into the car to go home and once I arrive home, I see my mother sitting at the entrance sorting out the vegetables.

“Mom”. I call out to her from a distance.

My mother raises her head to look at me with surprise and love which I have not seen for a long time. She has aged considerably over this period of my absence and her face has more wrinkles and her hair has become greyer.

I walk over and look at her with pain in my heart and say, “Mom, why do you have so many white hairs?”

My mother sighs and says softly, “What else other than thinking of you and your father? Each day that he isn’t around is torturous.” My mood begins to dive as I walk into the house with my mother.

mother cooks a lot of dishes. Even Frank is surprised when he comes back at midday for

“Why are you back?”

say impatiently, “Why

I meant, sister. The last time Steven came to look for us, he said that you were overseas. He told

was doing rather well but everything changed after Hamlin’s emergence. I don’t want to mention to my family what

that we never mentioned before. I can feel that my mother’s attitude towards me has

goes to work in the afternoon, I chat with my mother for another two hours and it is

Frances agrees for me to go out, he insists that I must be home before he goes back. My mother doesn’t keep me back and

sigh of relief when Frances is not at home when I arrive. Frances comes back just as I finish preparing dinner. But now, he looks worse than this

can’t help but ask when I think about the