The Teacher (20)

It was so damn hard to be treated that way and still feel happy. It was actually surprising that she did not cry her eyes out or yell from frustration. She was just sad and silent for day. She still do all the things that she needed to do and that really made me thing that she was really a strong woman.

Perhaps, it was best that that man would not return. We could just continue our lives. After all, time heals and that will be the case with my mom too.

“If he loves you, he will come back,” I had told her, yet I didn’t even believe it myself.

“No, dear. Some of us are just never meant to get married,” she answered sadly. She had become a shadow of her former self, and I felt really bad for her.

“Don’t say that.”

“Why not? Your father… never appeared on our wedding day. He has never even bothered to look for you or for me, yet I thought we were bound together. Now, history is once again rep