I promise to be back for you.

"Please don't leave me Lewis" Hot tears streamed down Twelve year old Jada's cute cheeks refusing to let Lewis go, holding firmly onto his shirt pleading desperately for him not to leave.

"I promise to be back for you" Lewis promised Jada, wiping the tears off her cheeks with the last finger on his left hand. 

"You promise?" Jada asked him just to be sure.

"I promise," He assured her, hugging her tightly.

"Let's go!" Lewis' father Andy separated him gently from Jada's firm grasp on him.

"Lewis!!!!" Jada called, stretching her arms out to him but her dad Jordan held her back, creating an opportunity for Lewis to enter the car leading him to the airport.

"Lewis" Jada screamed waking up from a dream she was having about her prince charming Jace, she was sweating profusely. She reached out for the electric lamp on top of a small table located at the edge of her bed putting it on.

"Oh God" She muttered to herself cuping her checks into her hands.

She laid back down on her bed staring at the top of the blank walls of her room.

"When are you going to be back?" Jada muttered once more to herself closing her eyes and giving in to sleep.

------------------

"Wake up sunshine" Jane, Jada's mom came into her room walking straight to the windows hurling them open to bring in sunlight into her daughter's room.

"Ooh.. mom go away" Jada mumbled to her mom, stretching herself lazily on the bed to continue her beauty sleep.

"Get up from that bed, you lazy ant" Jane yelled out to Jada dragging her down the bed.

"Mom stop and besides, ants aren't lazy" Jada squeaked trying to release herself from her mom's strong grip on her legs.

"Some of them are" Jane retorted.

"Fine, I'm getting up let go" Jada gave up trying to release herself from her mom's grip on her legs.

"Good" Jane released Jada's legs, giving herself a high five triumphing over conquering her daughter Jada.

"You sleep too much," She told Jada.

"Sleep is essential and good for humans, I was taught that in biology".

"Yeah I know that, but your own sleep is not essential because you over sleep" Jane counseled her daughter teaching her about biology.

"So get your butt out of that bed and prepare for school" Jane ordered Jada sitting at the edge of the bed. She wanted to leave the room but she knew If she did that Jada would just resume back to her beauty sleep. 

"This girl sleeps like a hawk" she would think to herself anytime she came up to wake her up for school.

She placed an alarm on the little table  located besides her bed but Jada still snores even when the alarm rings out loud.

"I'm going already" Jada mentioned alighting up from the bed walking straight to the bathroom.

"Do quick and come down, breakfast is ready" Jane announced, closing the door behind her and withdrawing from Jada's room.

"I will," Jada responded, entering the bathroom.

---------------------

"I'm leaving" Jada mentioned grabbing an apple from the fruit basket positioned on the top of the center table situated at the dining room.

"Without breakfast?" Her mom Jane asked, revealing herself in the dining room.

"I got an apple," Jada replied, showing it to her mom. Opening the fridge and taking out a jug with lemonade juice in it, she got a glass cup and poured some part of the juice in it and gulped it down her throat as her mom watched.

"And juice," Jada added.

"I know but that is not food" Jane made known to her.

"Oh here we go again about what to eat and what to not" Jada mumbled to herself taking a bite from the apple.

"You took an apple and lemonade, apple is a fruit and lemonade is just beverage, you simply cannot compare food with that thing you are eating" Jane mentioned to Jada pointing to the innocent apple in her daughter's hand.

"Look at how thin you have become over the years. Take a look at your bones on the collar of your neck, you look like a bunch of skeletons and you still don't eat" Jane added.

"Mom I have right over what I want to eat and what I don't want to eat, I'm not ten anymore come on I'm seventeen do not treat me like a kid" Jada declared to her mom Jane demonstrating it with her two hands to show her how serious she was.

"I know but you are still a kid to me, my cute little puppy" Jane said to Jada going over to her side grabbing her cheeks and pinching them softly.

"Ouch mom, stop that I am not a little puppy".

"Yes you are".

"Come on mom, what part of I'm not ten anymore that I am seventeen do you not understand?" Jada explained to her mom, laying more emphasis on the part where she mentioned she was not a little kid anymore." 

"I'm sorry baby girl but I just wish you were still little, you know with those cute little cheeks of yours and your angelic precious oceanic blue eyes" Jane imagined Jada when she was still a little girl.

"I still got those," Jada reminded her mom, pointing to her cheeks and eyes repeatedly.

"I know but they aren't cute anymore".

"Mom" Jada called her.

"But seriously you need to eat, you are too slim. What if Lewis comes back and he…." If only she knew she wouldn't have said those last words because it made the smile on her daughter's face vanish. Jane stopped in her tracks realizing what she said. She knew Jada doesn't like talking much about Lewis with anyone except only with her best friend Olivia whom she thinks  is the only one that truly understands her feelings towards Lewis always sharing her secrets with and confided in her.

"I..I g.got to go" Jada stuttered grabbing another apple from the fruit basket in an attempt to leave the house.

"Baby I'm so sorry" Jane apologized realizing the words she said earlier.

"It's okay, I have to go it's my first day, I don't want to be running late".

"Wait for me, let me put on my work dress and escort you out, it's almost the same way".

"It's okay I know the way to the school" Jada told her, waking over to the door opening it and departing from the house.

Jane felt so stupid at that moment mentioning Lewis opened up closed wounds, it's not that Jada hates Lewis but it makes her remember the day Lewis left her for England anytime his name was brought up in the house so everyone avoided that. She just spoilt the special scenario she had with her daughter, it's been long since she had that kind of interaction with her daughter since after Lewis left.

She had no friends as usual except for Olivia whom she later made friends with. The little girl she broke her nose wanting to be friends with her when they were little, waiting patiently every single day for the return of Lewis.