27.The Strangers Back Home

Six Months Later

Mia

I was back home, on a visit to my mum. It was my leave period and I decided to spend it at home. I didn't know that I was going to miss my mum and Albert as much as I did but I did. Maybe it was the attachment from being with my mum Al through childhood but I certainly ached with her absence and calling he every night before I slept became a remedy for me, a cure for my loneliness.

Even with the guys I went on dates with and Sasha there to keep me company, I still missed my mum. I missed Albert.

I missed what it was like to have a full family at a table when I had to eat. I missed what it was like to have someone to walk through a garden with when I was bored and had to take a walk. I missed hearing sounds of people talking, laughing, walking and going about their business when I felt my apartment was too silent. I missed a lot of things about home and I wondered if this was because I didn't go far away from home when I was in college.

Maybe if I had done, I woul