13/07/2023
THE MIRROR To MY HEART ❤️ CHAPTER1 [Crystal POV]
"Can you guess what happened?" My excitement was so obvious in my voice. Kulture looked at me weirdly. Yes, don't blame her 'cause even I think I'm being rather weird today. Lately, I've been having this moody kind of expression and always minding my own business, even around my own bestie, Kulture Buer. Though, we always talk but it's definitely nothing as happy as I am today. She'd talked to me to work on my mood as it was rather keeping people away from me. But I couldn't help it as they were lots of things going through my mind. How could I pretend to be happy or going about wearing a fake smile when everything around me seem to be in a total mess.
I don't live like that. I can't pretend to be what I'm not or feel things I don't feel. But today's different, 'cause I've got a reason to be happy and smile and smile again. "Tell me 'bout it. Tell me what has caused this sudden form of expression." That sounds like Kulture. Exactly what I'd expected to hear. She continued picking books from her locker after she'd paused to talk to me.
We were both getting books for today's studies. "My mom got her shop back." She paused abruptly the moment the words came out of my mouth and spurn around meeting my eyes. " Wow Crystal!! That sounds amazing, good for you girl friend. Your mom must be so happy 'bout it." Of course she is. If you don't know how hard my mom had worked to get that goddamn shop back, maybe you won't be able to understand. She'd sold the shop when dad left us in order to assist us financially and also for our house maintenance. We couldn't lose the house, we could lose anything but that house.
We can't afford an apartment, even if we could, with just mom's shop, getting the house back would be hard or rather impossible. So mom thought it would be wise to rent out the shop and keep the house. "You can say that again. We are celebrating it and you're invited." I told her with a bright smile but she almost did not let me complete my words before replying "of course I am. Even if you didn't invite me, I'll still come anyways. Can't wait to see Mrs Colman's happy face." Mom loves her too. I smile in my head, I was just so happy. "You better not expect too much. We're not inviting many people and there won't be much to drink. Kulture is rather a party type, she loves merrying. "Save your breath I'm coming." She snorted at me. We were now headed back to class.
It's been six years since dad left the house. I wasn't even ten back then and the twins were barely four. That day before he left, he and mom had argued a lot. Mom had cried a lot probably asking him not to go. "Charlotte, you and I are adults and we should behave like one. We don't wanna get the kids involved in this. Do we?" I could literally hear him smirk. Mom was crying her eyes out that she couldn't even utter a word.
I was playing with Sky and Cloud when I over heard mom's voice. I left the twins's room and rushed beside my parent's room and stood. It might have been wrong to eavesdrop on my parent but I was overly cautious to know what was going on. "Bryson......I can't......take care of the kids by myself, please don't go. We can fix this. We've always have." Mom pleaded. "I don't have anything else to say to you. Just don't stand in my way, so I won't hurt you." His voice was as calm as a still water. Dad is the type that doesn't speak much but a silent killer. He doesn't shout or raises his voice but he leaves his opponent yelling and crying. Someone who doesn't know him could accuse mom of being the one at fault as you could barely hear his voice. His voice has always been calm and blameless. What he does was dig out your heart out with just a single word and leave you yelling and yelling. That is what I've come to realize about him.
Mom been so soft would cry most of the time. But how could he use u s an excuse to hurt his own wife. Although I don't know the cause of their fight this time and why he insisted on leaving. Mom never said a thing to us. Even when I'd asked her, she had replied "your dad had to go 'cause sometimes human beings like to try new things. It's not easy to get stocked in one place. And your dad honey, is a man. Men are like that. " She'd sighed disappointedly. " You don't have to understand it honey. It's too much for your brain so don't worry, your dad will be back for sure.
