"You're late again, Mum." Nash welcomed me with a very frown face, I felt very guilty, I said "I had to see Dusk I'm sorry honey. Do you wanna get some ice cream now? Been a long time we don't hang out in that place again near the subway" I tried to sound excited and hoped to make him cheer up a bit. I worked I guess, he grabbed my hand and we walked together to the carpark.
"When is Dad home this week, Mum?"
"Umm.. I think Friday, but he's gonna stay until the end of this month" again, I hoped to cheer him up more after being away from his Dad for almost three weeks now. He wasn't interested, but he told me his plan that we had to agree, "I want to go to the art museum and the sea world next week"
"Sure boss, we're ready for wherever you want us to go!" he smiled, and he went on telling me the whole story at school today.
He said he met a new classmate from Orlando, she was sweet, her name is Lizzy. I was interested too when he told me that his lunch box fell but the food wasn't contaminated because the new box I got him was very tight. He cheered me like no one else has ever before, I think he got that charm since he was born, since I held him in my arms on the first day we met. So far, he has taught me true love, the one I thought was when I said my wedding vow.
"Mum, on mother's day next month, we are going to make a photo competition at school. It's you and me, and I want to use the poloid camera you got. Do you still have it?" I was snapped from the memory of bathing him the first time, I laughed "You mean polaroid? yes, I still have it and we'll have Dad take our picture!" I sincerely got excited because I also fancy Mother's Day, "Do you have to wear any costume? We can match each other if you want?" I wanted to make it special too.
"No, that's okay, we just lay around at the park and Dad will shoot us from above like Beany the Rabbit" He referred to his favourite bedtime story book cover.
I personally liked that one too, Beany the Rabbit. Dusk got me when we visited the Shambles. I didn't get why he chose that out of so many second and classic books he could get for himself and me. Yet, I kept it. I thought it was a useful one, if not for gift, it would make a good memorabilia.
I remember the day I bought that book home and my mother was surprised I had that. I said "Dusk got it for me, and I don't know why, Mum, please don't make this one a big deal"
"No, no big deal, I have always liked him, he is thoughtful, so kind and this, unique, unpredictable you know. I think he's a keeper" Mum pull that book out of the box I packed from Uni and put the book on the living room display desk. We had that desk back home to put pictures or souvenirs from out of town from relatives. I just didn't know that children story book was included in that category.
"If he wasn't gonna come with you, then you should just leave him. Or you know, I can speak for you if you want, just to make him think clearer that you are waiting for him to answer the invitation" when I got the offer from Berlin, mother was so excited and too excited about my relationship too with Dusk. Not only she loved him, I think she was madly obsessed with him, and it got me so weak. I said no. "Mum, I have asked him, and he said no, he wouldn't come with me, he'd rather wait"
It broke my mother's heart.
I think until Sand came, or at least until Nash came.