Chapter 144

“Tell me, what happened?”

She asked again as she squatted in front of the boy who wiped away tears from his face with the back of his hands. He was only four yet he seemed to want to hold everything in. Perhaps it was because he did not want to upset his mother.

“The other kids were laughing at me.”

She knew immediately what this was about and she stood up, determined to go give his teacher a piece of her mind but the boy held her hands. He knew what she was about to do and also knew that it would only make things difficult for him.

“Don’t.”

She sighed and took his bag then thy headed o the car.

“You know at a point, you have to let me do something, right?”

The boy sat beside his mother in the car without a word.

“Jake, talk to me.”

“I’ll be fine but why can’t you stay find me my dad.

She sighed. He was just a little boy and would not understand how complicated it is.

“You will say it is complicated but just tell me.

He has heard that one too many times.

“Jake…”

“Or you would say I