Mary Poppins: Blossoms

Am I Dreaming

It had been a month since she had been home again. Mary had a long job and it took a while to make her plan succeed, it was a very complicated family and those types of families who needed her for so long always made her heart ache and also made her a little emotionally drained. She walked in the door and felt faint with her exhaustion of working, the umbrella dropped from her hand as she felt herself about to pass out.
"Mary!!" The umbrella screeched, as she dropped to the floor, unconscious.
An hour passed.
And another.
She stirred slowly in her bedroom, and sat up in disbelief.
"H-How did I get here?" She looked for some sort of clue, all she saw was her bedroom tidied and her umbrella smiling in the corner.
"Are you something to do with this?" She said sharply.
"No well, kind of well, no I-" Her normal look turned to her head tilting down and staring him down a little.
The stairs creaked. Mary jumped out of her skin and looked at her closed door. She felt sick to her stomach on who had come to help her. She hated not having answers. She always had them, but not today. The umbrella giggled as the door opened. Mary saw the persons shoes.
Tears filled her eyes. There she was. Mary's Mother. Her mother smiled seeing Mary awake and her reaction to her.
"M-Mother I-  Am I dreaming?" She said softly wiping her eyes, and gulped with a lump in her throat.
"No no my blossom I'm very real, I saw my darling needed her mother, you've exhausted yourself"
"Yes w-well thats partly true..." Mary acted a little like a teenager, embarrassed with confrontation and being in the wrong. See, Mary Poppins was never in the wrong, only when her mother was around. Her mum gently stroked her cheek, and kissed it, laying a teacup with its saucer on her bedside table. Mary welled up, she felt the touch of her mum was real, and leaned on her soft, aged palms. "You're so beautiful blossom" Her mother whispered softly, and gently stroked her hair and unclipped it, Mary's long brown hair fell to her chest, and her mother smiled again.
"I really do not understand why you don't wear it down like this for your job, it looks very beautiful"
"I think it looks too relaxed for my job" Mary said softly. Her mother nodded in agreement, and helped Mary comfortably sit up on the bed, and passed her the tea, and she noticed her hands shaking. A little bit of worry was brushed over Mary's face.
"Shhh shhh, it's natural because you are very tired darling girl" Her mother said in that soft caring voice no one else could match, instantly relaxing Mary as she took a sip of her tea, and then laid down.
Her mum softly sung Mary to sleep. The next morning rose, the cherry blossoms were flying in the wind outside Mary's house, her mother no where to be seen. Her legs were weak as she stood up and helped herself to the doorway.
"M-Mum?" She said weakly and tiredly.
No answer.
She had gone, she had come to see Mary just to relax her and help her feel better. That's what mothers do after all. Mary smiled at the thought of that but tears filled her eyes with the thought she was alone again.
There was a knock at the door, Topsy strolled into the house and saw Mary weak at the top of the stairs.
"Your mother called, I heard you exhausted yourself to passing out" Topsy smiled and walked up to Mary, and wiped her cheeks.
"Y-Yes well- mhm" Mary said weakly and Topsy rolled her eyes at her tiredness.
"Oh cousin get back in bed, come on you stubborn girl" She giggled helping Mary to bed, her accent making a few words inaudible but Mary out two and two together to make some form of sentence.
Topsy smiled and stroked her cheek, and sat beside Mary in bed.
"Try get some sleep, like Mummy Poppins would want" Topsy said softly, and carried on stroking Mary's hair and cheek. Mary nodded, and closed her eyes. Her mother really was an angel, making sure she had someone with her till she's better. All she could hope is that she would be as good as her mother when she had children. But for now, all she could do is admire her, and help the other families who need it.