I walk towards my mom's white toyota where my mom waits for me. She has a grim expression on her face but at the moment I don't notice it. I collapse into the passenger seat and look behind me to see that my sister wasn't here today. I assume that her friends mom picked her up from school that day as my mom drives out of the school parking lot. “How was your day?” despite her gloomy mood she fights to keep a smile and start our day to day conversations where we wrap up our days on the way back home. Still oblivious to what's going on I answer with complaints about the day not going fast enough for my liking. My mom just listens to me patiently, which is unlike her since she usually throws in her own comments every now and then. We already arrive to our apartment complex and we walk towards our door and inside i'm greeted with my moms friend that I usually don't see often. Surprised I greet her and my excited younger sister glad to have us back home. “How are you?” My moms friend asks and i quickly search through my memories to remember her name. “I'm good, Geri thank you” I answer back politely and take a seat next to her on the couch rather than do my usual after school routine. Geri and have small talk till my mom joins us and takes over the conversation. I notice that they are speaking to each other on soft tones not the usual type of conversation that my mom has with her friends that often everyone laughing and speaking loudly to each other. Geri soon decides to
“How are you feeling?” She asks. “Okay.” I answer with every bit of energy I have left.
"Hey! Cutie pie, how u doing?" The feminine voice asked. [Mother description] with her sweet and caring voice and hug me.
“Hi honey, I have been hiding this from you for a while but guess who's back at home again?” her mom says with a huge grin stretching across her tiny face.
“Just tell me who she is already!”, I said a bit annoyed as I sat down on my bed. My mom did the same, sitting down next to me.
"Not much" He replied. My mother angled herself peeking around to see what was going on.
“They’re doing all they can,” Mom whispered back. She stopped when she saw me and managed a smile. “Hi dear. How was school?”
"Hello Mrs. Weasley. How are you?" I ask her while we wait for Hermione to come downstairs.
“No not in the kitchen perhaps in the dining room you could help me move the chairs back.” She said to me.
I start to move out of bed and towards the door of my room. I know what I’m going to be doing today, I will be spending all my time with my family on our boat fishing. From around 6 in the morning till 7 at night. It should be fun to hang out for a whole day in the hot sun with the family.
As I reach the kitchen I look at my mom. She seems upset. “What’s wrong?” I ask, awaiting yet another horrible fate.
June 20: I woke up early this morning to my mom coming into my room. She always barges in using my stuff and that usually gets me annoyed and wakes me up because of how loud she is. My mom always greets me saying good morning once she sees that I am awake. Usually, I’m not always in the best mood when she wakes me up really early so I just tune it out and ignore it. I work every Monday morning so my mom always asks if I want a waffle or bagel, a typical breakfast meal she would easily make. After she asked me if I would like something to eat, that's when I decided to respond. She also asked me what time do I go to work, she always asks every week even though I always go at the same time. After I review our conversation, based on Jack Gibbs
I’m not sure if you’re mother gave you all the details of the meeting we had for the arrangements, last week?” Actually, she didn’t at all. The funny thing is that she’s been acting really weird lately after their meeting.
“I’m doing great. It has been a crazy week, I cannot wait to eat this burger, I am starving! How are you Abby?”
I’m sitting at the kitchen table, working on summer homework while babysitting my cousins when I hear: “How is Marlene your mom?”. I look up from my work and focus on my eight-year old cousin’s questioning face. How do I answer a question like that? I was adopted at eight months old from China, she is the only mom I know. I don’t know my birth mother, and from what I know I was at the orphanage for a few months before. As I stammer my way through an explanation that I hope he a curious eight year old can understand, I think about who I really am, how my family came to be and how it can be confusing for him to understand something that seems so different from his family. But, my family is not too different from his. My mother has known me since eight months, so she has been there for the major milestones like any other parent. Then, in his usual way, he hears the answer and goes on to ask what movie we can watch that night, the conversation apparently was over.
“It 's nice right?” My mom asked, smiling at us. No one really answered except with an upset look on our