A step away from truth

Clad in a see-through red lace night dress, Anna walked out of her bedroom in the late hours of the morning to the living room still looking so drowsy. She immediately assumed that her mother had probably gone into the room, because she was not in the living room where she had left her the previous night.

She walked to the kitchen to grab a glass of water from the refrigerator, as she gulped every one of its contents down her throat and heaved a sigh of relief. Her eyes darted to the huge wall clock that was resting on the wall of the living immediately she walked back, and she found it quite unusual that her mother was not yet awake at that time. She had always been a light sleeper and woke up early too.

"Mum, are you still sleeping?" She called out as walked to the front of the door to the second room that she was meant to be in. Though Anna was still dying to find out what was going on with her mother, she wanted to talk and connect with her before she left for Germany again.