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Author: Lydia May
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Returning from the grocery store was about to unpack the items I got, and I felt my phone vibrate quickly ran to check and it was my mum.

My goodness! It’s my mum, why did she call? Hope everyone is well at home. Did anything happen to my father? A lot of questions were trooping through my mind and I didn’t know what to do either cause I was scared to answer the call, I didn’t know if someone must’ve told her I lived here with a man.

I quickly picked up the call to find out the reason she was calling.

“Hello Mother, good evening” I was scared to answer this call but I needed to try hard to pull myself together, so she wouldn’t notice it was from where she was.

“How are you Gabriella?” she sounded like someone who had something to say to me, I was scared at this point, what could I possibly tell her? Oh lord please help me.

“I’m fine mummy, how are Dad and everyone at home?”

I reluctantly asked cause I was trying to figure out where her questions would come from, so I could know how t
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