I Met Someone

Mother’s home when I get there.

I can tell, firstly because the door is unlocked. Secondly, because she’s singing loud from the other side of the house with music blasting from the t.v.

My stomach drops.

She hasn’t done that since before dad and Toby passed away. I drop my bag on the couch and hesitantly make my way through the hallway down to her room at the end of the house

“Mother?”

There’s a