"Leigh, what time is it" mom shouted from her bedroom, 'its 8:43 mom" I replied, "ugh I'm gonna be late" she said "Is grandpa sleeping?" She asked me, I looked at grandpa who was just staring at the TV, weird isn't it? "No mom, he's just watching TV" I replied.
My mom came out of her bedroom to the lounge, looking fine as always, she was tall with brown skin and beautiful brown eyes. I loved my mother's eyes. That night she was wearing a black beautiful dress, it was long enough to hide her knees and it showed her cleavage.
"Would you please go get that black jacket for me Leigh?" my mom asked, I jumped off the couch and did as told, I handed my mom her jacket with a smile on my face, she smiled back and gave me a peck on the cheek, if only I knew that was my last from her. "Take care of grandpa okay and you be a good girl" she said. Okay why is she saying all this? Is everything okay? I asked myself "okay mommy, you look beautiful" I said with a smile on my face. "Thank you sweetie, I'm about to go so please lock the door behind me okay?" she said right after giving grandpa a peck on the cheek "okay ma, what time are you coming back?" I asked "as soon as I can baby" she lied. I swear to God I could tell a lot from my mother's eyes. "Okay mom, can I ask you something before you leave?" I requested. "Leigh, what is it with you and questions? What is it?" the last thing I ever wanted to do was upset my mom, and I could see her getting mad. "I just wanted to know if we are gonna do something for my 12th birthday" I said "of cause, you are just growing aren't you? Now come lock the door" mom said. Wow I was expecting something better than that, did she even remember about my birthday before I asked? Doesn't look like it.
I went to the door the waved goodbye to my mom, I shouldn't have. Then I locked the door and went back to the lounge.
"Ashleigh, could you get me some water please?" grandpa asked, I had no idea what was wrong with him, he's been coughing a lot and losing weight "sure grandpa" I replied with a smile, I was such a smiley kid back then, this woman took it away. I went to the kitchen and got grandpa a glass of water "here you go" I handed grandpa the glass, he was shaking, he took the glass and that took forever, he drank the water for about 15 minutes, and I was just staring at him the whole time, he handed me back the glass and told me to go to bed cause it was getting late, I said goodbye to grandpa after placing the glass in the zinc and went to bed. The whole time I was wondering how my grandpa was gonna go to bed since my mother isn't here, I guess he'll just crawl all the way there? Oh well. I switched off the lights, said my prayers and within a few minutes I was asleep.
The next morning it was on Sunday, I woke up and first thing I did was go to my mother's bedroom and say goodmorning, she wasn't there. I went to my grandfather's bedroom and he was still asleep, how did he get there? I got worried by the minute. I went to check the lounge, nobody was in there. It's like somehow I knew something was wrong, I waited for my mom and she never came back, I went to tell grandpa that mom wasn't home yet and he asked me to hand him the phone, I did as told and grandpa tried calling my mom several times and it went straight to voicemail. I had tears in my eyes, its like somehow I knew she wasn't coming back, grandpa called the police and they took about 20minutes to arrive, all that time I was hopelessly crying to my grandpa.
When the police arrived they also tried calling my mother, same thing happened with them, voicemails.
They called her close friends and they said they haven't seen her since Thursday at work, they were not with her yesterday, during the phone calling and everything my grandfather was getting worse, so they had to take him to the hospital, my grandfather refused and said he has to take care of me, I was crying so hard that I found it hard to breathe at that moment.
Of cause the police wouldn't listen to a dying man, they took him to the hospital immediately.
And that is how I ended up here, 2 weeks later I found out that my grandfather has passed away and my mother is still "missing" bullshit, she planned all this, I know what my mother is capable of. We didn't have anyone anyone else close to us, its always been me and my mom, who was always at "work" or somewhere having the time of her life, until my grandfather showed up. I guess its back to being alone again
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