Chapter 49 - Waiting

The sun seemed to have decided to hide in the clouds this morning. At six, the sky was still sad without its sunlight. The chilly weather was piercing through my heart, and it was making me gloomy despite the truth I learned.

I sat down in front of the door of the old garage as I waited for Sienna to wake up. After our talk, I beg Albert and James to leave us alone for today, and I promised I won't go anywhere, and I won't open any door unless they ask me to come.

Tears started to flow in my cheeks as I looked back at my pathetic life. I didn't know my life has another version. Out of so many people in the world, this stranger has chosen us to change our lives. What did I do?

If that stranger, whoever he or she was, did not alter our past, I should have been happy. I didn't need to hide from Albert. I should have enjoyed motherhood. I could have gone back to my family without arguing with myself. The decades of being alone, of living in misery made it more painf