Chapter 139: Her Opinion
With a cookie in one hand and warm milk in the other, Talia was sitting in the dining table in the middle of the night. She couldn’t sleep.
She was contemplating about her future plans. As she thought about her past, she felt a bit ashamed of herself.
In the past few days she lived here, she saw how Rebecca’s mother prepared meals for one of their neighbours who fell sick until she recovered. And today, her mother prepared twelve batch of cookies to distribute to the kids in the town, for no reason.
And Rebecca brought Talia with her to the local nursing home that day. And the way she interacted with those old people... It was so amazing. The patience she had and the care she showed those people... Many of them had alzheimer and some were unable to move freely. And yet Rebecca knew how to interact with them and her presence made those people delighted.
Most people working there welcomed Rebecca fondly. Apparently she used to do volunteer work in that nursing home. Some of the residents there remembered Rebecca too.
Talia knew Rebecca was like that. Even when they were living in the city, she’d go out of her way and bring food for homeless people.
Rebecca always had that nurturing and caring tendency in her heart. And in a way that’s what made her drawn to Joe and she fell in love with him as she started caring for him.
Caring and sharing - Talia never felt like she needed to care for someone for no reason. She was the one who was cared for and never once has she cared for anyone.
She’s hurt people, although not deliberately. If they messed with her, she’d hurt then back. And about others, she never gave a damn!
So either she never cared about others or she’d repay the hurt she received. That was her interaction with other humans. But there were a lot of people who cared for her and she were nice to some of them,like Fred, Cyrus and her grandfather but she always found reasons to keep them away too. One fault on their side and she’d push them away and their relationship will never be the same.
She pushed her grandfather away like that...after her mother’s wake.