Proud Of You

Upon seeing me stop my actions, my parents exhaled in relief and cried out in response, “Baby, we missed you.” They confessed in a voice filled with exceptional longing.

I sniffed, still stunned so much that I couldn’t move a foot. “I thought you were dead. I. How were you alive? Why haven’t you come to see me all this time? Do you know how miserable I was? I was very miserable.” I confessed and let the tears slip past my eyes, watching every one of my parent’s actions.

My parent's eyes landed on Lorelei’s figure behind me, and they began to approach me while responding, “That Miss over there saved us. She had been the one taking care of us all this time. Please let her go, and we can leave to enjoy our life again. Don’t you always want to become our princess? We’ll let you be. From now on, it’ll just be us: you, your mom, and I…” They whispered in that soft and gentle tone that unconsciously made me stay rooted in my feet and made my heart surge with emotions.