Rebirth: Dancing In My Destiny
Chapter 153: Father

Chapter 153: Father

Rose felt a sudden thrill welling up in her heart. A glimmer of hope that will change her life forever began to start. The question that had always bothered her since she was a child. Something that was not solved until the last breath in her previous life. Now, it will unfold before her eyes. Her father’s identity.

She saw her mother walking around the bedroom. Somehow she felt like deja vu when she saw her mother pacing like someone she really knew, herself. Rose bitterly smiled when she remembered this is what she usually did if there was something to worry about, walking back and forth like her feet can’t stop moving.

"Mom! I beg you to stop doing that? Sit down and talk to me, okay!? Why are you suddenly asking me to come home? And why do you seem so scared to talk to me?"

Rose felt helpless against her mother. It’s been thirty minutes since they’ve been in this room but she hasn’t said a single word. Since then her mother was just walking back and forth in the room while talking to herself and she did not understand at all what her mother said.

Several guesses came to Rose’s mind. Trying to make her mother speak, she just said what was on her mind. Perhaps her mother would start to speak to her,

"Mom, do you have a problem? I mean... you’re in debt that you can’t afford to pay back?"

"Did something happen to your health?" Rose felt terrible just imagining this one. She was so worried that her mother’s illness would relapse.

But after trying to guess, her mother didn’t respond with what she had just said. Her mother still kept walking nonstop and ignored her. Rose could only take a deep breath, it felt like her mind was getting tired of thinking about what was really bothering her mother right now.

Rose leaned against the back of the sofa and tried to close her eyes. Seeing her mother pacing could make her eyes drowsy. She slowly closed her eyes while still trying to guess about the problems her mother was facing.

After a while, Rose sat up straight with her eyes wide open. She narrows her eyes looking at her mother in silence. Rose was tense, with her current thoughts.

Gosh! If what she thought was true. So this is really insane.

"Mom!" Molly stopped her step and looked at her daughter to continue her words, "Don’t tell me you finally accepted Uncle Jamie love?" Rose stood up from her seat and walked to her mother in the corner.

Their eyes met for a moment. After some time, she felt defeated again because her mother’s eyes looked dull. Like everything, she said earlier her mother didn’t hear.

"Mother!" Rose started to worry about her condition. She saw her mother’s face looking pale, her lips were so dry and her hair, which used to look soft and neat now, looks messy. She barely recognizes her mother now, because, in her eyes, her mother always looks beautiful and fresh, now she looks dull and old. She seemed not to take care of herself the last few days.

Rose took her hand and led her to the sofa. "Please sit here mom. Talk to me, stop worrying so much. And don’t be afraid, whatever you are going to say won’t make me angry. I promise you!" Rose looked her mother in the eyes.

Seeing her mother’s eyes flash sad emotions makes Rose’s heart slightly worry. She was afraid of the news her mother wanted to say, something that would hurt her heart. But, she reminds calm. She sat opposite her mother.

Rose saw her mother just looking at her hands she was clenching on her thighs. Rose knew that her mother’s mind and heart were agitated. For some reason, she began to feel her heart ache just looking at her mother’s condition.

She didn’t know what to do because this was the first time Rose saw her mother like this. Her mother is a strong woman who has always been a role model in her eyes. She took a double role to raise her. Not only acts as her mother but sometimes she becomes a father figure as well as a friend.

"D-Daughter..." Finally Rose could hear her mother’s voice, but this time her voice, which usually sounds charming and gentle, sounded hoarse and low. "I finally remembered your father."

Rose was confused hearing her mother’s words. Why did she suddenly say that? Had she forgotten her father all this time?

"Mom, you mean all this time you forgot my father?"

"Yes!"

"What do you mean? Wasn’t my father dead? What memories do you forget about him?" Rose was getting confused.

Has her mother forgotten her father’s name? That’s why all this time she’s never told her. Her mother also never brought her to her father’s grave. When she was a child, her mother said that her father’s grave was far away, on a remote island. And as a child, she believed what her mother said to her.

"What I mean is, all this time I lied to you." Molly’s voice started to tremble. "Your father is not dead, as I told you..." She continues to tell her daughter everything she remembers.

Rose was shocked to hear her mother’s words. Her father is still alive? What the hell is happening here?

"M-Mom... So you said my father is still alive?"

Her eyes glazed over at her mother who now looked calm. But Rose could tell right now her mother’s heart was in a mess like what she felt now. It was as if her heart was now like a calm lake suddenly surging when someone threw a stone into the middle of the lake.

Rose couldn’t describe her feelings in words. Knowing her father was still alive was enough to make her mind stop working as if someone had just pressed the reset button in her brain.

This is for real? Or was her mother trying to humor her?