Suddenly it dawns on me that I have spent years telling my sister to live in the present
and yet somehow have forgotten to apply the advice to myself. I may not be consumed
like her but I am not free. Not yet.
I have a duty to my younger sister that will never change. But as the oldest, I must now
make a stand for both of our sakes. I know my parents would've wanted that.
"What about us?" I'm not in this alone anymore. We can do this together. She'll be okay,
we'll be okay. Okay?"
Santi's face glows at the familiarity of my resolve. His words, his vows to me. He's been
right all along.
"Okay"
And he allows me to slip my hand underneath his, take control of the mouse and set the
wheels in motion for our first holiday alone in years. Doctors' orders.
My adult life, up until this point, has always had a depressing "One Day" prefix. Well, why
can't that one day be today?
With a set mind, I tell Santi as we close down the laptop that I am going to drive down to
London to visit my sister and set the record straight.
She is my blood, but Santi is my priority now. He is my family and we deserve a chance to
create our own new familiar traditions. I can finally envision a future. The holiday is just
the beginning of happier memories to supersede the ones we manufactured to keep the
real issues at bay.
Weeks later, we are on the Florida shore watching the light display surrounded by Santi's
loved ones. And I am crying, as I watch my husband lift his now very elderly mother from
her wheelchair and spin her around on the sand.
"Happy Independence" we all cheer. The Mother/Son dance is overdue but we'll
remember this night because we are all alive, happy, liberated and finally living in the
present
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