Fiery Pages (Benedict Cumberbatch)

Give Me Love

  The sky was rumbling as Summer walked below making her way to her house. She saw a woman standing in front of her door knocking.

  "May I help you? By the way. I'm the one who lives in there.", the woman turned around and Summer almost lost her balance at the sight of the woman.

  "Oh, Summer!", she cried. Summer can't get a word out of her mouth. She looked down and closed her eyes trying to think this is a nightmare. She opened her eyes once again, it's not a dream.

  "M-mom. What are you doing here?", she looked at her mom full of disgust.

  "I just want to straighten things up between us.", Summer immediately had thousands of flashbacks of what her mom did to her.

  "Straighten things up?!? What like I'm sorry for hitting you with a water pipe when you were 10?!?! or like I'm sorry that I tried to drown you when you were 7?!?!", she's now screaming at the top of her lungs fighting back the tears. The weather matched her feelings and the rain started pouring.

  "I'm just-, I'm sorry. Please forgive me.", her mom started crying.

  "You scarred me for life you bitch!!! Oh and what happened to your favorite son? He left you?", Summer was shocked at her own response. She didn't know how angry she was until now.

  "Yes. He left me. He died 4 months ago."

  "And you're apologizing for what you did to me because you're afraid to be alone."

  "Please. Forgive me.", her mother looked down. Summer ran straight through her door and shut it in front of her mother's face. She curled up in her bed blocking the sound of her mom calling her name.