Sweet Sorrow

"Being a mistress is not the most pathetic. What is the most pathetic is being a mistress who is abandoned." Nicole raised her head and looked at the straight road with a bitter smile.

It was almost noon when Nicole returned home.

As soon as she entered home, Jim, who had been squinting at her, whispered to her, "sister, don't worry. Mother didn't know you went out."

Nicole was suffering a lot. Seeing her brother defending her like this, she felt even more bitter.

"Come on, go to mom's room and show up." Jim put the apron on her quickly and pushed her into mom's bedroom.

Mrs. Judy was reading a pile of leaflets on the bed, with a pen in her hand, and drawing.

"Mom, what are you doing?" Nicole took a deep breath and went to her mother.

Mrs. Judy smiled, pointed at the leaflets and said to Nicole, "the supermarket on the West Street is doing a sales promotion. I'll pick out the things we need. Go with Jim when you are free and buy all the things we need back."

Nicole cast a glance at the leaflets. The products chosen by her mother were all cheap tissues and vegetables.

"Mom, don't worry about that. It won't save you much money. You have only recovered a little. Don't read too much. It may do harm to your eyes."

"You don't know it, it can be much cheaper, I have remembered the discount time of the supermarket around. Take it seriously and it will help us save a lot of money a year."

Seeing the serious look on her mother's face, Nicole was a little sorrowful.

Her mother had been leading such a hard life all the time. Even if she married to Austin, her family was not getting better.

She had sworn not to let her mother suffer, but in the end, she failed.

"You don't need to buy this mop. I'll ask Jim to find some old clothes tomorrow. After cutting these clothes, I'll make some mops for us. It's not different from what we bought in the supermarket." Mrs. Judy was still reading the leaflets.

to see that. She took the leaflets from Mrs. Judy's hand and

was in Nicole's mind. She sighed and put her hand on Nicole's. "Nicole, don't take it as an insult. We've been leading a poor life for so many years. Now we owe someone money, not to mention waste any money. I don't want you to be in debt at

"No, I..."

your friend is, if we borrow money from him, we should return the

mother's words, Nicole couldn't

to her mother that she had borrowed money from her classmate in college

while Jim was listening to their conversation and

time, Mrs. Judy put these leaflets in front of Nicole.

meal, went out with Jim, and bought four big bags of things which were listed out by her

would be enough for a few

Judy was so happy to see them carrying the bags into

for several months." She

every day, saying that the meat was too expensive and she ate too much every day. On the other hand, she worked

a contradiction made

getting better and better, so Nicole felt

disappear and had never been in touch

did Austin.

care of her mother. She would only stare blankly at the ceiling at night when she was lying in bed, thinking of someone who made her sleepless.

she thought that person might be flirting with

later, another event happened

Jim, didn't go to school after the new semester

on time; when the night came, he would come back home on

was too tired after school, so she doubled the food she

the head teacher

performance. We are going to train him well to let him enter a key high school. Why do you want to transfer him to another school? What's