I put my phone down and turned around to meet the gaze of the disturbance. There, with a side grin and bothered eyes stood a young boy I had almost forgotten existed. "Eric?"
"Hello." He waved shyly. I looked around to see if I would catch sight of his mother but he seemed to be alone.
"Where is your mother?" I wondered, I squinted my eyes at him. Last time I saw them, they were at Sebastian's store so what he was doing in New York baffled me.
"I..." He stuttered, his cheery face disappearing, "I lost her again." He added with quivering lips. He was set to cry again but I was not taking any of that.
"What?!" I gasped in disbelief. "That is impossible, how could you have lost her in such a big city? What kind of mot-" I decided against shaming his mother in front of him.
I put my phone
