This is a platonic relationship. You are his mother.
This will be in two ver. This one will be you as his mother, the other is you as his baby sister.
So.. lets go on our angsty journey shall we ?
Also, I was inspired after watching 18 again. Yall should watch as well frfr.
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Being a single mother was hard for you.
It was given that your child was calculative and smart, so he figured things out himself most of the time. Although, you wished he had not grown up too soon.
At the age of 9, he already started to leave the house so often and came back very late at dusk. He was quiet, yes, but it was more cold than just calm like he did with others.
"Alhaitham, come eat dinner."
"I have to go out. Eat without me."
You understood as a model student, he was busy, and even the Grand Sage favor him, he would be busy with school and projects. It something any mother would be proud of, but you could not help but to notice the lesser time you spent together with him.
"I'm moving out."
Those words broke your heart. You did not stop him, he was old enough to move out and these days, he was the one who help you out with money. You were not that old to earn your own money, so there was no excuse to make him stay.
In fact, you had him at relatively young age. You fell in love and disobeyed your parents. You felt like it was karma when Alhaitham dismissing you so much from his life.
During his graduation, you only watched him from afar as he did not invite you to the ceremony.
Years went by, he visited you from time to time, but hardly because he wanted to spend his time with you. You thought it only because he wanted to send the money and felt obligated to check on you as your son.
"You shouldn't just stay still. Be hard on your son for once ! He's doing whatever he wants because you are too lenient !"
Yes, you indeed had feign ignorance on everything he had done that hurts you. It was impossible to put a blame on him since he was your only son. He was a good student, and many looked up to him, from his peers to the Sages.
However, it will change.
"Alhaitham." You called him as he was sitting at the table by a window. He was reading a book since you asked him to wait for the food in the kitchen. He would just leave usually but you insisted to give it to his roommate.
"I have a surprise for you." You said, smiling. He looked up to you from the book, before he closed it and waited for you to continue without much interest. Your fingers squirmed as you got nervous.
"I have made a hotel reservation in Fontaine and a lot more places to visit, it's a month from now.. Let's go on a holiday together." Talking about it got you a little excited, but soon your smile died down seeing his tight face.
"I'm busy, and Fontaine is expensive. Unless you never used the money I gave you, you borrowed it from someone." His deep tone made you shiver to the bone.
"Stop borrowing from that guy, goddamnit !" He slammed the table in front of him that caused you to flinch. Your eyes were already teary.
"I gave you money so you won't beg for it from that guy anymore. Do you know what people had been talking about you ?"
He stood up hastily, his chest went up and down what you assumed his pent anger, because he never lashed at you like this before.
"Stop, mother. You're too old for that already. Just.. stay quietly in this house and I'll give you the money you want. Please, stop embarrass me anymore."
As soon as he left the house, you fell onto the chair next to you and ugly crying of what happened.
Your friend told you to be hard on him, but you only could bear his anger. This was the first time he raised his voice at you and it rendered your speechless. Your heart broke to a million pieces.
"He got mad at you ?" Your friend asked more in utter disbelief and hidden anger. She did not know how to react to what you had told her.
You were in the desert doing some job with her. It was a risky job and you had done it for almost a year for the holiday plan that went horribly. Even so, you still went to the work since it became normal to you now.
Then, she sighed.
"That boy came to me when he was a kid, asking me your relationship with that guy. Come on, of all people, you asked him for money ?" You sighed.
"That was one time."
"Well, to everyone's eye you sold your body to him. That guy was crazy for you but you chose someone else. He got money and all, and after everything happened with you and your husband, the timing couldn't be more worse."
Everything went downhill after your husband passed away. Alhaitham was just a wee baby and you were left with nothing. You and your husband lived from hand to mouth. Nevertheless, you were happy with him. He was hardworking, and you sacrificed everything to be by his side with Alhaitham coming.
Then, just a few months after Alhaitham was born, he passed away in unexpected death. He was working the same work you had right now, and the supervisor said he slipped down and fell.
You fought for it, you could not believe your husband just die a pathetic death, but Alhaitham was just just a baby, and you had no one on your back.
At home, with you alone crying in your cold bed over your pathetic life, you wished you can turn back time and make things right for your family.
The next morning you woke up, your body were all aching due to yesterday's work. Drowsy, you walked through your bedroom to the bathroom to get ready for the day.
You lit up the bathroom, and you looked at yourself in the mirror.
Your eyes widened seeing the reflection in the mirror.
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