Perhaps we'll meet again

Part 2

I got home and was immediately banished to my room until i finished my dumb letter.

So i started immediately, i wrote

'Heyo stranger, my name is Fay Tabithan and i'm supposed to be your pen pal. Its 2021 and i'm a 10th grader at Juvile High school. I dont really know what to write, so tell me some of your interests! What do you like to do? Whats your favorite food? I like spaghetti, and i like Soup. Anyways. I hope we can be friends'

I ended my letter and scribbled down the address on a note, then the envelope. then i stepped outside and told my mom i was headed on a walk, which she just gave me a loud 'mhm' and resumed her work.

I looked for a mailbox and walked about a block before i saw a single mailbox, and it was old, greenish, and rusty. And it was in the shape of a rectangle, with a smaller rectangle on top. The smaller rectangle had the word L E T T E R S right across a small rectangular opening chute.

I shrugged and opened it up, hoping i didnt get tetanus or something like that from how much rust had built up on this mailbox. I dropped my letter inside and walked back home.

People greeted me along the streets but i didnt feel like i could respond, i was too wary of getting kidnapped. But then Ms. Charmaine and Mr. Michell appeared from the corner of the street. I waved to them and they beckoned me up onto their porch.

I promptly followed Mr. Michell up the stairs and they sat next to each other in rocking chairs. Ms. Charmaine smiled brightly at me and began telling me a story about her old lover. She never said a name until the very end, when she suddenly went

"Oh dear.. you would've loved Ms. Lucienda"

"Ms?" I asked, surprised.

"Of course! She was my wife afterall!"

I gasped and giggled.

"Of course! Silly me. She sounds lovely. But i have to get going now! Thank you Ms. Charmaine! Thank you Mr. Michell! Goodbye!"

I ran home and went to tell my mom what Ms.Charmaine had told me

"MOMMA! MOMMA!"

"Yeah sweetie?"

"Ms charmaine told me all about her old lover! She sounds so lovely!"

"She?" My mom froze her erratic typing and sat up from her shrimp position.

"Yeah!! She was a nature lover and she rescued raccoons and crows! She saved animals who couldnt defend themselves and she-"

"I dont want you over at Ms.Charmaines house anymore."

"Momma?"

"You heard me. Shes going to intoxicate you with her disgusting homosexuality."

I was genuinely stunned. I had never thought of my mom this way.

"Mom. What the hell is wrong with you!?"

I couldn't stop going to Ms.Charmaine's house! She was like a mother to me.

"Its disgusting. I cant accept it." My mother responded, lifting her head up and back up at her computer screen, resuming whatever she was doing.

"Whatever. Im going to my room." She didnt respond and ignored whatever i had said. She didnt care. She would never care.

I walked into my room and slammed my door shut. I sat on my bed and curled up into a ball hoping i wouldnt cry. I need Ms.Charmaine.. she was the only person i had in my life who actually cared besides Jordan. Im sixteen.. i cant cry.. im too old for that.