It was yet another superb day today, thanks to my super cool mom. I don’t mean to be a show off or anything but I’m really enjoying spending time with my mom. Especially now that it’s only the two of us and there is no one to get in between us. I think this is a taste of how it’d have felt if I was an only child – like Noxy, I’d be spoilt filthy rotten.

I think there’s a tiny possibility that Sim might not be coming back. Yesterday I walked in on mom engaged in a heated argument on the phone. I think it was dad she was talking to, but I am not sure.

“…he’s coming back; like hell he is not coming back…” that’s the tail end of the conversation I managed to eavesdrop on. When mom spun around and saw me standing at the door her eyes bulged and became like large saucers. She then whispered to whoever she was speaking to that she’ll call later.

When I asked her who it was she was talking to, she said no one important. Just the answer I had expected. With mom it’s always ‘no one important’. It’s funny how it always turns out otherwise. But I knew better than to press her to tell me something tangible. I just know when mom is spinning a yarn; she acts all jumpy and discreet about her affairs.

My gut feeling tells me that there is yet another big storm in the horizon. I could be wrong though; maybe it’s all in the mind. I mean lately I’ve been thinking how it’d have been if it was only me and mom. No Sim and no dad; just me and her.

Anyhow, mom said that today she is free and that we could get to do something fun together. I think she is doing this to ease the guilt of hiding something from me. But I couldn’t care less why she did. Being one who never lets fun pass her by just like that, I jumped at the offer and said I was free too.

So, we went to the mall, and this time I wasn’t there to eye-shop. Mom had given me the liberty to use her card… and boy was I reckless?

And she didn’t mind a bit. It was really fun. I can’t remember the last time I had laughed so much that my stomach felt like I had swallowed needles. If you had seen us you’d have mistaken us for two little girls on their first excursion to buy their favorite Barbie dolls.

When the shopping was done, she waited for me as I did my hair. The day was rounded up in the chairs of Seelan Restaurant & Bar.

Summer here I come, I really cannot wait.

ZZ xxx

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