Second Ball of Chances (Miya Atsumu x OC)

Chapter 8: Behind the sweet smiles...

Michiko carefully closed the door of Hiroshi as she finished cleaning up his room. Afterwards, she went to the adjacent room, which is Hikari's room and did the same thing. While cleaning the room she saw her daughter's bag on the floor and full of trash. 

"What the hell is this?" She mumbled. 

"Mom? What are you doing?" Hikari immediately went to her mother and took her bag. 

"Why do you have a lot of trash inside your bag?" She asked.

"Uhm. This? I volunteer to pick up garbage at school and each time that I... that we are outside and saw some garbage, I am picking it up... you know, like a habit?"

"Is everything all right? Are you sure?"

"Of course!"

Michiko kissed the forehead of her daughter and hugged her. As a mother, she was scared if something was really happening behind her back. "Just tell me when you are in trouble, okay?"

"Sure, mommy. Ah. I think Aunt Ina needs some help in the kitchen."

Somehow, her maternal instinct was bothering her. She gave her kid one last smile and glance and closed her door. Hiroshi and Hikari is already 10 years old. Time really flew so fast. She knew to herself that she was not the best mother but she tried her very best to give them a comfortable life.

She even reminisced the time when she was struggling to feed them both when they were still babies. They were always crying at the same time and would definitely give her a hard time changing their diapers. From little to no sleep, she would look for a job to sustain their needs. But now, they are already exploring things they wanted to do.

"Just don't grow up too fast." She mumbled.

Michiko went to the kitchen to cook when she saw a familiar face inside her house already cooking and seemed like struggling a lil bit.