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[September 14] [Original] Grown-ups
Title: Grown-ups
Day/Theme: September 14/live by disillusion glow
Series: Original
Character/Pairing: Un-named Narrator
Rating: G
Word Count: 169
I was seven years old the first time I saw my mother cry, and I couldn't understand what was happening.
To me, adults were still borderline-magical people, who stayed up late in the night doing important things after I had gone to bed.
And yet here was my mother, weeping with her head buried in her arms.
What could she possibly have to cry over, with no one to make fun of her on the playground or punish her for being bad?
I remember that I didn't try to comfort her. I thought of it, of stroking her hair like she did to me when I cried, but I wasn't sure that was the right thing to do. If an adult had been brought to tears, it must be over something too great for my little attempts at consolation.
When I grew older I understood that everyone cries. But then, watching my mother, all I knew was that she was suddenly human, and I wasn't sure I liked it.
Day/Theme: September 14/live by disillusion glow
Series: Original
Character/Pairing: Un-named Narrator
Rating: G
Word Count: 169
I was seven years old the first time I saw my mother cry, and I couldn't understand what was happening.
To me, adults were still borderline-magical people, who stayed up late in the night doing important things after I had gone to bed.
And yet here was my mother, weeping with her head buried in her arms.
What could she possibly have to cry over, with no one to make fun of her on the playground or punish her for being bad?
I remember that I didn't try to comfort her. I thought of it, of stroking her hair like she did to me when I cried, but I wasn't sure that was the right thing to do. If an adult had been brought to tears, it must be over something too great for my little attempts at consolation.
When I grew older I understood that everyone cries. But then, watching my mother, all I knew was that she was suddenly human, and I wasn't sure I liked it.