C10 The Weight of Unspoken Love

10. The Weight of Unspoken Love

My mom stood from her seat. “Oh, sweetheart,” she whispered. She rounded the island and silently opened her arms to me.

I fell into her embrace with a pathetic whimper, blinking furiously to try to keep my panicked tears at bay. But the longer I sat there trying not to cry, the more heavily the tears fell.

After a minute of sitting in my mother’s hold