The Void Between Hearts ~~ongoing~~

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  A STUPID MORNING. There's a knock at the door.

   "Sir," it's Sua's voice. 

   I don't want to see anyone, and I don't want to hear anything if it has Mother's name in it. Last night, we had a falling out, it didn't end well.

   'Ivan, don't you think it's about time you end all these shenanigans with this girl? It's time to focus. You have your whole life ahead of you.' She said the moment I walked into the living room. 

   I turned around and there she sat, at the head chair, looking all prim and proper, a glass of sangria in her hand, while one of the domestic staff waited on her with the jug. Tosin was also present, a can of energy drink in his hand, and a stupid smirk resting on his stupid face. 

   It took me some time to process what she had said and when I finally did, I walked away without saying a word. 

   She started ranting, trailing behind me. I got to my room and locked the door, praying she would just leave me alone and let me think. For Christ's sake, I wasn't sure where my mind was, but she just had to continue.

   I listened to her say a lot of things including how she made a mistake by letting me continue to play around with Boma, how she should have ended it the moment we came back. 

   What got to me was when she said, 'even if you think you can defy me to continue to see this girl, you're going away, for a long time and as we all know how unpredictable sickle cell is, she just might be gone before you get back.' 

   That stung. It stung so bad I punched my door open. She looked unmoved, like she didn't hear herself. 

   'You went too far.' I said, my jaws were clenched so tightly the words barely escaped. 'You went TOO FAR!' I roared. That was when a gasp escaped her lips as her eyes widened.

   'How can you say that? She's someone's child.' I said. She looked away then back at me, mouth still hanging open. 'Sometimes I wonder how much worse you have to become, before I can't call you Mother anymore.'

   'You have no right to say that to me, Ivan.'

   'I'd say ANYTHING I WANT!'

   She slapped me hard across my face, a pained scowl on hers. 'I'M YOUR MOTHER!'

   'Then try acting like it.' I said. 

   'What has come over you? It's that girl right, that stupid girl has turned you into this.'

   'THIS? YOU! DID! THIS!' I clenched my fists letting the blood trickle like water from a tap.

   'Ivan, you're bleeding...'