Chapter 13. All Over

"It is a saying you might not understand, sweet child, but what I meant was that if they couldn't think of it as what they should do, then I would not be forced to bother them before I could feed myself. I have always said that I will never be a burden to my children. I will not be the kind of mother that the children will see her call and grumble that this woman is calling again to ask for something, or the kind of mother that they will ignore her calls because they know that the outcome of picking up that call would have something to do with money. No, my child. I have never depended on my children to do anything, and I am not about to start now.

Then grandma had sighed that day, and a sad aura had seemed to envelop her as she said sorrowfully, "Your father, your father, had always been the exception to the rule as he always anticipated what I needed and always ensured he got it for me even when I protested that he did not need to do so much; the same thing for your mother, who wou