"Mother? What are you doing at my workplace?"
Melody stepped out of the classroom a few minutes later, only to find her mother standing in the corridor, completely frozen in place. For a moment, guilt crept in. She hadn't expected to run into her here—not like this.
The truth was, she had been avoiding her mother ever since she arrived a couple of weeks ago, silently hoping she would get bored or busy and return to wherever she came from.
Her mother had never stayed in one place for more than two weeks—not once in Melody's memory. She was always on the move, always working, always somewhere else. But this time, it was different. It had already been two weeks, and she was still here.
And not just here—she was everywhere. When she wasn't calling Melody to meet her and her newest boyfriend, she was out catching up with old friends or randomly showing up in places like this. It was starting to feel like she had all the time in the world.
