What gift did you want to get from your mother? Or what present you wanted to offer her? Is the gift you just wanted to present and offer to have a significant meaning? Just be mindful of the consequences.

The little Vince is watching his favorite Harry Potter series when he hears his mother talking on the phone. He smiled at his Mom when she walks in from of him, but seemingly Amalia doesn’t see her son's greeting features and just continue going into the kitchen.

Vince knew tomorrow is a special day for his Mom. Same as last year they will expect lots of visitors merely Amalia friends and co-workers from a BPO company hanging around in their house. The person whom Amalia spokes is her friend Natalie; they are planning for a great celebration for her birthday.

He wanted to surprise his Mother this year, he knows she has been in a very hard situation in eight years after Vince was born. The moment he was released from his mother’s womb, his Dad fled and never comes back home. Amalia was very sad and angry about what happened to his partner, they never married and now she doesn’t know where Vince’s father goes.

“Mom, what you wanted for your birthday?”. Sweet Vince tried to interrupt the mother chit-chatting with her friend, but Amalia Ignored her child and focuses on the planning of what to fix for tomorrow. Vince just smiled and leaves the kitchen, went to his room, and prepared his pens and colors for him to write a birthday letter for his Mom.

Short Story 01; The Best I Could Give To You Mother

The day had come; Vince groomed his self to greet his mother. He quickly prepared the shirt and happily entered the shower for him to take a bath. He sings the favorite lullaby his mother always sang when he was young. He appears refreshed and good.

Going downstairs, their already a guest in the kitchen, it’s her friend's Mom they are serving the food for the night's party with their friends and co-workers. Young Vince just prepared his meal; he grabs the oats and took milk from the fridge, like a normal thing he does the morning.

He places the bowl in the top of the facing the two busy woman preparing in the kitchen. His mother sees him but just gives him a glance and never attempted to take any words for the child. He quickly finished the breakfast and prepared his gift for his mother.

Times fly and the ticking time is moved faster than he could imagine, the music starts to play, visitors are coming and greeted her with their individual presents. What a lovely evening of her birthday. The room is filled with people whom she knows, even the boss is present that makes the party even more interesting. Chit-chatting or singing.

One of her friends enters with a cake and candles of 28. He began to sing then later the people around her started to be part of the group. She can’t imagine how happy she is at the moment. She closes her eyes and wishes on before blowing the candles, “My Birthday wish is that I will be happy again every day!”. People clap at her for sharing her wish with everyone.

Peter her best friend; let her sits in the chairs. He took the boxes of greeting cards and he tells that he will pick any cards and he will read this to her. The crowd saw this as interesting activity, so they are all warmly excited to hear the wishes of everyone.

“First” Peter even drums the boxes full of cards. He puts his hand inside the box, the crowd was amazed when they see the front page of the letter was made by an artistic child. The color of glitters and drawing was seemed made by the very talented child. “Who’s Vince?” Peter looked at her curiously Amalia laugh and says he’s nothing. The crowd becomes curious and started to investigate. Peter curiously opens the letter, “Let us see what is here!”. The crowd claps and wanted to start the activity

Dear Mom,

Happey berthday tu yu, I love yu and I will always lab you forever. 

I know wat makes yu happey, I want yu to get back the time that I wasn’t here. I know It was my fault dat yu not happey anymore. I should be gone.

The crowd becomes silent and shocked at what they heard. Peter laughed because he knows Amalia has no child, but a single lady at her young twenty. She began to felt something weird and Amalia quickly rushes to her son's room.

She opened it, the light was off. She presses the switch and she was shocked to see his son peacefully sleeping, he’s sleeping like an Angel. She walks toward the young boy and sees the face of her partner. It’s like a duplication of the first love she had, the love that hurts her.

She gives him the blanket for him not to be cold and kissed his forehead. Now she realized something is wrong. She put her hand on his child’s head and it feels cold, she immediately rushed to hear the heartbeat of the angel. The tears in her eyes began to flows; her heart is pumping too loudly that she can hear it resoundingly.

She grabs the son’s body, trying to wake him up but never happened. Instead, he hears something like blows in her ears “mother this is the best I could give to you”

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Dears readers;

This is a fiction story, made by yours truly. Any name of characters and plot that is closely related to any individual is just a coincidence and the story is never been real. Thank you.

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