"Ma~ I was scared so much…" Jillian Hayden wept.
"My daughter... my precious daughter..."
Tears streamed down her father's face, "We failed you..."
Jillian Hayden's own tears flowed freely.
The pain she had buried for so long erupted all at once.
She buried her face against her mother's shoulder and sobbed.
"I thought you abandoned me..."
"No, never!"
Her mother's arms wrapped around her tightly, trembling as though afraid she would vanish if she loosened her grip. Her father held her shoulders, repeatedly looking at her face as though making sure she was fine.
The warmth of her parents' embrace was everything Jillian Hayden had dreamed of for the past month, and she had finally gotten it again. Perhaps they might've made a mistake, but as long as they saw their ways and changed them, she was willing to love them again, trust them again.
She couldn't forget them for they were here only parents.
"How could we abandon you? You're our daughter."
