Chapter 11: Second Hand Embarrassment

Chapter 11: Second Hand Embarrassment

"M-Mom, are you crying?" I asked after seeing her body shiver, as she laid her face on my shoulder.

"Did I say anything wrong?...If I did, I'll apologize and take back what I said immediately. I'll even join you in your musical piece you were so proud of, and we can play it together, so please don't cry, mom." I said, not having any idea why she started crying all of a sudden.

I started teasing her after seeing how cute she was reacting, like I usually do when I talk with older women who I'm interested in, but I never expected her to cry after hearing my words.

If I knew she would cry, I would've stayed silent the whole time, as I didn't want the person who showed me how it felt to be sincerely loved by someone for the first time in my life to be sad.

It started off with her making me cry with her words, and now it was me who made her cry with mine. What a vicious cycle.

"N-No, you didn't say anything wrong and hurt mommy in anyway. It's just...It's just..." My mom muttered while choking on her own tears, as she held my arm tightly and buried her face in so that I wouldn't see her crying face.

"...It's just that mommy is so happy that she just can't help but cry a little." She wiped her tears on my shirt and looked up at me with watery eyes and a beautiful smile on her face.

She then chuckled while wiping away the remnant tears on her face and said

"It's just that you've been so cold and distant to me for all these years, and I was starting to worry that you were slipping away from me. Right now, we can still stay together since you are still in high school, but I started to wonder what would happen when you left for college and what would happen after that when you started working. I worried that you wouldn't need your mother anymore and wouldn't speak to me ever again, once you became independent."

Even though she was currently laughing like it was a joke, I could still see a lingering fear in her eyes, as if she hadn't fully gotten over the fact that her son might leave her side one day and never return.

"But now I don't need to worry about that anymore."

She stopped wiping her tears and said it with a blooming smile on her face; with the fear in her eyes slowly subsiding as she looked at me tenderly, as if everything in the world was finally going her way.

"After hearing your words today and seeing how much you actually care for me, I don't ever have to have those worries ever again...And why exactly do you think that is?" She looked up at me eagerly, expecting me to answer.

After dancing and singing around me for a while, she finally stopped after she was satisfied. Her face was brimming with energy, and she looked like she could go for another hour, but she stopped after seeing how awkwardly her son was standing and waiting for her performance to end.

"Although mommy hasn't had a chance to play you my musical piece with the kitchen utensils, she's still happy that she got to sing and dance with you."

"More like sing an embarrassing song and jump around like a kid, while making her pityful son watch." I said, begrudgingly, as I took my hand off my flushed face.

"Oh, don't you act like you didn't enjoy it. I know you like every one of mommy's artistic performances...Now ask me why I know that?" She came forward and told me to ask her a question eagerly, to which I already knew how she was going to answer.

"How do you know that?" I asked against my will.

"Because Kafi loves mommy! And if Kafi loves mommy, then he'll also love all of mommy's performances!" She exclaimed with a bright look on her face, as if it were a matter of fact.

"Sigh...Now, I'm regretting opening up to you and saying how much I love you. At least I wasn't constantly embarrassed and played with back then before I said anything." I said, unable to handle her overwhelming love for me.

"No~ You already said that you love mommy more than anyone else in the world~ You can't take back what you just said, and I'm not allowing it even if you did!" She pointed her finger at me and said with a stern look on her face, as if she wasn't going to allow any takebacks.

"But at the same time, it also makes me wonder why you decided to change so suddenly and open up to me when you haven't ever shown signs of talking to me even once." She said with a thoughtful look on her face.

Well, it's because I'm not your actual son, actually someone else from another world, but it's not like I can say that.

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For a better reading experience and not to keep you guys waiting for too long, I'll be posting the next 12 chapters which is all my backlog today, so I suggest you guys to wait until I post everything today so that you can continuously read it all.

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