Away From Home

|Chapter 10| ✔

Kimberly had just gotten off the phone with her father, Alban César Austin. A business consultant that had made his mark on the land that feeds out of opportunities. Now, as a wise man, entering the early fifties. Her father, Alban César Austin, felt that it was his duty as a father to remind her of the important things in life.

Have his dreams changed? Why does he want me to settle down?

A few years back while she was a college graduate who was ready to take on the world. As the final touches for her future company were being constructed. She recalled back on what he once said. As if it was yesterday. She remembered so well.

His words...

"Success is great when it is achieved. But you mustn't let it consume you to the point that you lose sight of what's really important. There are better things in life than just being successful. God, Family, and love should always be your best friend."

"Oh, Dad, what on earth is going on with you." She mumbled as a tint of fury snaked in her soul. "She's never there," with every ounce of anger that she aimed to bury, now awakened.

The hurt that she tried to hide for so many years, now revealed. Everything she ever felt crawled back all at once. "What kind of mother... All she ever cared about was... Herself. "

Until this very day, she still hasn't gotten a chance to have a mother and daughter conservation. Due to her mother, Miranda remained the busy workaholic robot that she had always been. A physician who successfully operates on difficult surgeries.

Kimberly frowns, not surprised by her absent mother. She's so busy saving other peoples' lives but can't seem to save her own family.

Sometimes Kimberly strongly believed that her father played both parts. While her so called "mom" didn't partake to her motherly role.

A sense of loneliness crept in countless unforgettable memories she built spending time with her father and a few of her mom's. The big birthdays and family gatherings. Of course, it wouldn't be possible if it weren't for her father's persuasive tone.

That he used with his clients, that miraculously convinced the physician that focused on cutting patients open and putting them back together mother to attend. After giving her mother many chances. So much that she lost count and she was tired of her father filling in her mother role. Kimberly finally gave up. She gave up on waiting for the mother figure that she will never have. She chose to flee, to flee from the place she was raised. To leave with the hope that she'll find the sense of belonging that searched for elsewhere. After living many years on her own. As such, she didn't want to admit it. She really did miss home.

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