“Why would you come home late? Did you go and see her again?”
I could hear Mom’s angry voice from my room. It’s always like this. She’s shouting at my father for coming home late, suspecting that he went to see some other woman.
Then a loud sob. “Do you think it’s okay for me to act this way? I feel so pathetic!” she exclaimed.
I sighed and shut my door. They have been fighting a lot these days. I have an idea about the reason because Mom has always told me about it. She always says that my father doesn’t love her because he’s in love with someone else. She says even though they already have me, my father still longs to be with her. She being Odessa Garner who is currently confined in a mental institution because she lost her mind when her husband passed away.
I shut my eyes and thre
