Love in the Mire

THE OTHER HALF OF ME I FAILED TO REALIZE

The beautiful morning I woke up to and enjoy its cool restful shady world with light filtering lazily through the tree tops that meet high overhead and shut out the direct sunlight, was totally ruined by my depressed mother. I wanted this day to be a relaxation day and with the toned weather, everything was perfect but my mum ruined it all. She’s been dumped again, and by who this time? Innocent Caleb, who would have thought? I just wish she could stop her rendezvous, so that I wouldn’t have to deal with all this.
Since when my dad left my mum, it has been quite difficult for her to remain single and she always gets her heart broken. The first boyfriend she had was Amos, a young vibrant divorcee with two kids that were barely my age. His reason for splitting with mom was actually a good one to me. He claimed she was a blessing from heaven considering his ex-wife became so jealous and got clingy which resulted to their back together leaving my mom single again! This prompted her to date again and her next was Luke and then Peter, Sam, and now Caleb. Luke broke it off because according to him, mom was too “clingy”, well, after dating Amos who was snatched by his ex-wife, what do you expect of course she must hold on tight to the next and as for Peter and Sam, I guess my mom was too old for them considering they were college guys, but who knows, maybe there was something different entirely.

"Mandy" she cried out

I wanted to ignore her call but I couldn’t, because she'll make sure i pay for it later dearly. I hurriedly got up from my soft silky bed, dragged my robe that was hanging on the wall close to my dresser. I slid into the robe and stormed out of the room straightaway down the stairs with my bare feet. It was cold, Pleasure eluded me hauling me back to my room and the soft bed but I fought hard with the desire and found my way to the living room at last. My mum was there sitting on the floor with her legs spread. She was sulking hard, soaked in her own tears. Everywhere had sullied tissue papers. I looked around with great disappointment. Totally not what I wanted to see

'Mum', I moved closer to her, she reached out for me and placed her tender head on my shoulder.

'Mandy I’m sorry',  She said looking up at me and using a tissue paper to wipe off her running nose.
Eww.. I was disgusted by this but I just had to bear it.

'Its alright mum' I consoled
'you know I just wanted Caleb to forgive me' she wailed

I'm sure you are wondering forgive her for what? oh yes this one was totally her fault, I mean why will you pierce a man’s ten year old daughter's ears without his consent?
Ridiculous!

'Mum you wouldn’t have done what you did' I reasoned

'I know but its just that she wasn’t looking so cute with her elephant ears you know and I wanted her to be cute, so cute'

Really?

I rolled my eyes, 'you had no right
'
'I just wanted him to forgive Mandy but instead he…'she burst into tears again throwing all her soggy sewage on me, my robe!! I sniffled but remained still

'Sorry mum' I mumbled infuriated by the stains on my robe, heck I am not doing this consoling thing again

'Honey i am sorry for putting you through this' she sobbed

'Mum just forget about Caleb',

Actually I wanted to shout 'grow up woman! You are the mother and I'm the daughter, start behaving like one' but that would have caused a disaster.

'It is just so hard, you know', she responded wearily

'you have me, you don't need him' I stated, feeling bad that she cared more about her silly boyfriends than me

She looked at me deeply, I stared back at her too. I could see the sadness and pain in her eyes. I wanted all of that to go, if only she heeds to my advice