“Little Ian, it’s getting late. I have to go now.”

“Alright,” came a flat response from Ian, who was playing a game in the room.

Sasha rose from her spot and proceeded to put on her socks, ready to leave.

“So will you be coming tonight?”

“What’s that?”

“You said you would come over every night to treat Daddy’s illness.”

 

Ian’s fingers did not stop tapping on the game controller while his eyes remained glued to the screen. With that listless demeanor of his, if Sasha had not been staying with the boy in the same room, she might have suspected that he wasn’t the one who said those words.

Sasha lowered her eyes. For a moment there, she thought about telling him that she would not be coming that night.

 

In fact, she would not be coming anymore. She didn’t want to treat his daddy’s illness again if she could help it.

But as she stood there gazing at the boy’s little head and then at the medicine left on the table, she nodded in the end.

“Yes, of course I’ll come. You should go to sleep after you put on your pajamas, understand? I will come to check on you as soon as I arrive, alright?”

The boy remained quiet.

He felt embarrassed now that his secret had been discovered.

But he nodded in the end before shifting his focus back to the game.

Sasha left the house after that, feeling relieved.

an hour later, at the preschool in

I thought you don’t want us

two little kids came running toward her. They leaped into her embrace and began

did most of the

hand, just stood in

“Now, why wouldn’t I want you two? There’s nothing I want in the

“Really?”

hear that. She gave Sasha a

Matteo merely hugged

the clever boy could sense that something was amiss about their mommy. Her smile

possible that… Mommy went there again today,

beaming face

to prepare dinner

back to that place, she started to feel

going to make dinner. In the meantime, you and your sister

“Sure, Mommy.”

that, Matteo led his sister to the living room and took out their homework from their schoolbags. He spread out his sister’s homework, got out her pencil which had a butterfly figurine, and placed it nicely in front of

call. Do your homework here, alright? Cover

are you calling? Is

of large eyes widened in anticipation. The way her eyelashes

“Yes. I realize that Mommy’s not in a good mood today, so

call him! If Daddy’s been bad

again, her chubby cheeks flushed

to his

before he could dial the number, there was already a text message waiting for

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