Chapter 106

LUNETH A few days later, and Mom is feeling much better and ready to be discharged. When I had first seen her, I could not believe that a day like this would come and she would get to go home, but here it was. "You are staying with us." "Oh no, honey, I have an apartment where I can stay," Cindy said, trying to take a step back. "I know you have an apartment, but you were just discharged, and you are alone in your apartment. I don't think it is wise of you to stay alone now," I say, trying to pull her to myself, but it seems like she already had her mind made up. "I can manage; it's not like I haven't learnt to live alone." Her words broke my heart. Melissa and her mother's tyranny did not alone affect me like I had been thinking; it did a lot to me and Mom, and before I had been blind to it. Even though I was constantly beating myself up for allowing that accident to happen, I am so glad that I was able to come now when she needed the comfort and not when my life was hanging on by a t