OC Advent Drabbles - Day 10
Dec. 10th, 2008 08:03 pmIt was just a cheap bauble, shiny but worthless. He’d made it when he was six or seven, he thought. Maybe another mother would have remembered, would have a story about it, but not Dawn.
He made up his own story, instead. How he brought it home, proud of what he’d made and wanting to show Mom, but she was too busy. She was always busy back then, tired and kind of angry. But later, after she’d put Ryan in his crib, she tiptoed in to tell him what a good job he did.
‘Course, it was just a story.
He made up his own story, instead. How he brought it home, proud of what he’d made and wanting to show Mom, but she was too busy. She was always busy back then, tired and kind of angry. But later, after she’d put Ryan in his crib, she tiptoed in to tell him what a good job he did.
‘Course, it was just a story.