Chapter sixteen

"Mom?" I say after my fingers left a knock of the door I stood in front of frowning my eyebrows as a sudden nervousness shook

My body lightly "came in!" Said a calm voice behind the door making me snap out of the deep thoughts the sudden shake left me with

But soon enough I open the door and entered the room with smile on my face directly

Meeting a quiet room and moms back facing me "take a seat on the bed I'll just be

done with this first!" Mom said from the desk

She was working on probably after feeling

the pure confusion I wore on my face,

I nod as a little mm sound left my lips

Afterwards following my steps to the bed

That laid in the middle of room sitting myself on the edge of it before my eyes immediately looked at the very familiar promise looking paint that hang on on of the old looking walls of the room turning my head to every way possible as I let myself to try understand it

Once again. I have seen this painting more than I can't count in my life yet here am still trying to understand today not only it the painting hard to understand to it's hard to imagine because there's a lot going on there

On one side it's blue colored with red and white bird looking feathers but bigger colored laying on the ground with almost fading trees that are hardly to see Behind them on the other side there a hat that looks like it belongs to the mad madam the kids Dress up for in Halloween And a light blue sea wave with a dead yet alive looking purple eye laid inside and on the bigger picture of canvas was totally colored black With deep red looking eyes and white long fangs that could belong to a wild animal in my case and something as shiny as a diamond laid in between the colors making it's look like it was the holding the painting together in one piece! Now What the meaning of all this?? And how does someone understand it?? It's been years And I'm still trying to understand this Is not even history what in the world could Be? I'm not a art much of a person but I have sure heard that every art has its meaning but this one is telling me otherwise

An- "what do you think it's about?" A voice broke through my thoughts making me jump out of shock that I almost fall off the bed

Looking at mom sitting right next to me

With a evil smile over her lips "you scared me!" I voice out as I still hold my chest

"How long have you been sitting there?"

I ask curiously as I get back on my regular spot on the bed smiling at her

"long enough to for me see that you were really swinging right in between your thoughts?" She said calm voice looking at me with soft but very curious looking eyes before looking at the painting I was looking at before

"What the meaning behind this

painting mom? For years I been trying to understand it but I'm still left here

wondering only!" I said without looking at her

But at the painting once again taking my chance to finally understand it as a whistle of the wind from the open window in peace room connects itself with my ears leaving a soft melody for my soul to make a song of as I watching the painting for deeply then I did before " that painting is called 'the wild trees' and it represents the fate of this world!" She said In a low serious voice as if she was miming her words to herself but it was audible

For me to hear "fate of what?" I ask back

In a surprised tone after turning around to look at her as her words left her mouth

"Yes the fate of this but that not important now the reason I called you here to tell you now was to tell you that we are having a guest over this Sunday !" she says turning to look at me in the Coming in contact with my widened

ones hold on wHat? Did she just said a guest??

"I know you're surprised by now but it's

just an old friend of mine and I asked her to join us for dinner on Sunday as I wanted to

Complete my talk with her!" She keeps talking totally like This isn't coming as a big change of this household I knew that things could change

In time but slowly yet I wouldn't be the one to guess on that it would be such a big change in this house, we have never had

anyone Else in this house except me, mom her late husband, Tessa and mom's sister no one else has her entered and now all suddenly we have a guest over? Not to mention it's just one day away???

I stayed quiet wonder what the hell went

on Mom's mind at this moment! How is she possibly thinking right? "You serious? "

I weakly after a moment of silence because if this is a joke lasted for too long in my opinion

"yes sweetheart I'm serious oh I almost forgot

to say that and she's coming with her

family too!" She said all unbothered making me look twice at the person standing in front of me because it sure does not seem like it's the mom I have knows for years now

That one used to say with serious voice that 'no one I mean no else but you and Tessa and me can enter this house understood?" And this one is completely calm and Like 'oh hey we having a guest over nothing dangerous or whatever' as if it's wasn't her who told me and Tessa that no one else can enter this house But then again what can I do? Nothing

So I nod slowly not missing to see the

shock in her eyes "okey" I said standing up from the bed and smiled at her as I looked back at her " when are they coming then? I'll make sure to be ready before it?" I say smiling at her not a fake one but actually one full of warmth which she gladly returned back to me

"Around 7 or 6" she said with a smile And I nod "great!" I said walking to the door because I don't know what to say and mom looks like she has nothing to say either

But as I was about to open the door a soft voice stoped me making me turn around to face her "Wait kay!" she said looking at me

"You got nothing to say?" She asks in a voice that almost sounded like she pitied me

Her question immediately Making me frown

"About what mom?" I ask curiously still smiling at her but my mind going wild inside of me because it has way to much things to ask right at the moment but I let it slide

"I don't know maybe about this

whole situation?" She said looking at

me once the avoided my eyes as she

turned her back at me

"No mom I honestly have no say in who you invite over to your own house I definitely don't like It but I don't hate the idea so don't worry about it !" I say calmly staying true to what I had in mind but still not going if limits of what I really think of this sudden Change "I'll go now mom I'll se you at dinner later" with that I left the room and went upstairs with a stomach screaming not out of hungry but out of the mixed feelings I'm getting even way before this 'Sunday dinner comes, what ever that day brings I'm sure I won't like it.