Jordan
Hearing my mother's voice instantly brought me back to when I was a kid, when Mark was still alive, before dad flipped his lid, before everything bad that happened in my life. She sounded happy and it's all I ever wanted for her. But she's happy, so why try to reach out to me all these months, years even? It was only a year and half, almost two years ago, since the last time I held an actual phone conversation with her and that did not end well.
Is there someone new in her life? Did something happen to bring the light to her darkest days? Whatever it is, it sounded good on her, but I can't tell her that. I'm afraid if I say something about her current state, the walls will come crumbling down and reveal the truth behind the happiness, that it was fake all along and knowing my luck
