Chapter 153: Father
Rose felt a sudden thrill welling up in her heart. A glimmer of hope that will change her life forever began to start. The question that had always bothered her since she was a child. Something that was not solved until the last breath in her previous life. Now, it will unfold before her eyes. Her father’s identity.
She saw her mother walking around the bedroom. Somehow she felt like deja vu when she saw her mother pacing like someone she really knew, herself. Rose bitterly smiled when she remembered this is what she usually did if there was something to worry about, walking back and forth like her feet can’t stop moving.
"Mom! I beg you to stop doing that? Sit down and talk to me, okay!? Why are you suddenly asking me to come home? And why do you seem so scared to talk to me?"
Rose felt helpless against her mother. It’s been thirty minutes since they’ve been in this room but she hasn’t said a single word. Since then her mother was just walking back and forth in the room while talking to herself and she did not understand at all what her mother said.
Several guesses came to Rose’s mind. Trying to make her mother speak, she just said what was on her mind. Perhaps her mother would start to speak to her,
"Mom, do you have a problem? I mean... you’re in debt that you can’t afford to pay back?"
"Did something happen to your health?" Rose felt terrible just imagining this one. She was so worried that her mother’s illness would relapse.
But after trying to guess, her mother didn’t respond with what she had just said. Her mother still kept walking nonstop and ignored her. Rose could only take a deep breath, it felt like her mind was getting tired of thinking about what was really bothering her mother right now.
Rose leaned against the back of the sofa and tried to close her eyes. Seeing her mother pacing could make her eyes drowsy. She slowly closed her eyes while still trying to guess about the problems her mother was facing.