#Chapter 141 Chocolate Chip Cookies

Adrian My previous meeting with Sebastian has left me feeling uneasy, off kilter. It has forced me to reflect on the choices that I have made in my life, but has brought me an immense discomfort that I have yet to deal with. There's only one place I know that can help me calm down and pull me back together, to make me feel like a human again instead of a pawn in somebody else's game. The flowers of the nursing home’s garden smell delightful today. The sun is shining down through the opening of the building, and my mother sits on the white bench, the same spot. She is always in no matter what. Just seeing her, my body begins to relax and allow itself to calm down, knowing that with my mother, I am safe and nobody is going to try and hurt me while I am here. I hide a bag of cookies behind my back, a dessert that my mother loves from her favorite bakery in the downtown District of the city, and I slowly walk behind her, not wanting to give away the surprise that I am here to visit h