“Don’t ever do that again! Your Dad and I were so worried about you! We thought something happened to you already! We almost go to the sheriff's station to ask for help!” Mom said in a very worried voice.
She has been scolding me for the past thirty minutes. She said that they were trying to reach me for the past three days and even had to go to my place to check on me, but they can’t reach me. I had to lie about my whereabouts because they will surely freak out! I told them that I attended a retreat and no cellphones are allowed, and I just forgot to inform them about it. I hate lying to my parents but I have no choice, it is not as if I can tell them the truth! Sometimes, what they don’t know won’t hurt them.
With that thought, I paused.
What if, my parents chose to keep secrets from
