HER MOTHER

      They were all exhausted after the night and the clubbing. Faith was the most exhausted and pain had seethed through her body. The Valium and Alka-Seltzer she had taken earlier had started wearing off and she had urged them to go home. Once she came back, she fell on her bed with her clothes still on, but her stomach had burnt and she had to kick off her shoes and managed to the medicine cabinet. 

       She grabbed the Maalox Liquid and took three huge swallows from the bottle. Nora had already dozed off snoring like a pig. She knew she wasn't going to sleep that night because Nora snores when she was drunk or tired. She hadn't done anything at that club, she had just held a class of cocktails until they were done. It was Charlotte and Nora who did the drinking this time. Although they didn't drink to stupor, they were tipsy. 

        Faith had been the driver as they came back. They all had to come back to her apartment because it was in Nora's car, but Faith was driving there was no way she would drop Nora off and take Nora's car to her house. She picked up her night robe from the closet and wore it. Nora turned and mumbled something inaudible, she was occupying the whole space. Even if Faith had wanted to sleep there, she wouldn't be able. She quietly went away. 

       Faith had thought Charlotte's room would be any better, but on going there, she was met with the worst snores and the weirdest sleeping position in the world. She huffed and turned. She went to her room, took a duvet and went to the living room. She left the lights on and went and lay on her couch. 

      She tried to sleep, but sleep refused to come. She tried but her mind kept wandering to her mom. Her memories of her mother were now so blurred that she can't even remember her. She couldn't remember the day her mom left it was as faint as now to her. She and Joshua had gone to school, their mother had written them a note and had gone away. She couldn't remember what she wrote, but she was sure that her mother had said, she needed to settle down on her own for a while. 

        She had cried bitterly that day and had a fever the next day. Her father had taken her to the clinic. After their mother left, they became their father's next victims, especially her. Her father would always say like mother like daughter each time she cried because she missed her mother. Their father had threatened to stop her from school if she ever complained about her mother.

       She had waited silently for her mom, but she had never come back, she had not come back for her. Faith had wished she had not will. She has prayed that her mother should come to kidnap her but to no avail. It had taken her a long time before she finally got over her mother.