Chapter 54. Meeting the Mother

Bree’s POV

It was the next day, and like I promised my mom, I came back home instead of staying over at Sophie’s place after school. I’m still not talking to my dad; I won’t until he decides to give Hayden a chance. I don’t know why he is so stubborn, and to top it all, my mom hasn’t been okay. She says she is, but I know something was wrong; she was always running to the bathroom, throwing her guts out.

Most of the time, she was weak or sleepy. I had asked her to go to the hospital for a check-up, and I had no problem going with her if she needed company and my dad wasn’t around. She had waved my words off, giving me her infamous line. ‘It’s nothing; I’m okay. ‘

I just hope she is, and what she is will be a simple, harmful flu.

It was five in the evening, and I needed to be at Hayden’s house by six. His mom had invited me for dinner after Hayden told her about me. He hasn’t told his dad yet since he was constantly on a business trip and he didn’t want