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I watched it and didn’t really feel surprised.
It had been like this for so many years.
It was just that this time, after washing the dishes, Mom locked herself in my bedroom.
She held my memorial photo, her fingertips trembling as she gently stroked it.
“I’m sorry.”
“I’m sorry, Willa.”
“Over the years, you have suffered too much. We owe you.”
“Mom owes you.”
“Mom will make everyone apologize to you. Together.”
She opened a drawer and took out a medicine bottle.
These days, she was always awakened by nightmares and had gotten some sleeping pills from the hospital.
I watched as she crushed the entire bottle of pills and dissolved them in water.
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The next day, she cooked a table of delicacies, each containing, sleeping pills,
After they finished eating, they felt drowsy and went back to their rooms to sleep.
As for my mother-
She opened all the doors in the house, locked the front door, collected everyone’s phones and smashed them, and then threw the phones out the window along with the house keys.
Then she closed all the windows tightly.
She turned on the gas and turned the stove to the highest setting, and then put out the flames with water.
After doing all of this, she sat on the sofa holding my photo, waiting quietly for death to come.
I drifted over to the other side and looked at her.
It was like that day in the interrogation room, facing her directly through the glass, I watched as her breathing became more and more rapid, her pupils dilated, and her lips stained with a strange cherry red.
I said, “Mom, why did you do this?”
“Do you think I’ll forgive you because you choose to die?”
No.
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No way.
I will always hate you.
I will never forgive you.
Her life was slowly fading away.
The almost imperceptible blood ties on my body were fading
away.
I floated towards the door, and at the moment I reached the doorstep, the shackles disappear completely.
I hear my mother’s voice.
“Willa!”
ecstatic, but also cautious.
“Willa, is that you?”
“Don’t go yet, Willa. Mom wants to see you…”
I didn’t turn back.
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I didn’t want to grant her the chance to see me for the last time before she passed away.
I would never see you again, even after death.
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Mom.
My soul, gradually shattered into particles, dissolved in the
wind.
I seemed to have seen Granny.
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She was wearing that soft floral shirt and came to hold my
hand.
She said that she had already been in heaven for twenty years scouting for a good family for her little Willow.
In the next life, her little Willow would definitely be happy.
By then, Granny would still be her Granny.
She said she would plant a lemon tree and a willow in front of her door.
The night grew deep.
My consciousness hadn’t completely dissipated yet, so I saw the most beautiful scenery in the world.
Countless shooting stars streaked across the night sky, scattering between the mountains and the sea.
It turns out there was a rain of shooting stars tonight.
It was said that making a wish upon a shooting star would make it come true.
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So, in my next life,
I hope to have parents who love me.
We don’t have to be very wealthy.
As long as they buy me a cake on my birthday.
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As long as I can have a red balloon in my hand when we go to the amusement park.
That’s good enough.
That’s good enough.