Stitches
Mother's Love

Maria had just returned home from her boutique, and was immediately greeted by her two children Ruben and Rosie with warm hugs. They looked very happy after her mother came home from the boutique.

"We miss mom, how's mom's boutique?" Ruben who grew up to be a handsome teenager asked his mother, followed by Rose who grew up to be a beautiful little girl, "what's a tired mother? Want kupijiti?"

"No son. Mother is fine, mother is just sleepy mother wants to sleep," Mary replied as she stroked their heads and passed away leaving them towards the room.

We're tired of losing both our sisters.

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What did that man say? Everything seems wrong, ability? What abilities? Why can... I feel him talking when he does not open his mouth at all? Inner Maria monologued because she was still thinking about the incident at the boutique this afternoon.

Feeling that everything had been thrown off and was starting to make no sense, Maria decided to strip off all her clothes, take a bath, and put on her pajamas, then lay down on her bed. Maria tried to close her eyes, but as she was about to fall asleep, strange sounds were heard in her ears, like the whisper of the man who had bought a bag this afternoon.

Don't be confused baby, I forgot something, I want to explain it before I really leave your life and will no longer bother you...

"Me-explain what?" mary asked who was frightened and wanted to scream but she tried to hold back her fear because her children were asleep now.

Good.you don't have to be afraid of me, honey.introduce me Florenzio Albert. You remember me, don't you?

"Yes. I-I remember you, sir. W-what's up? Whatisthis? Where are you, come out!" mary tried to scream but very slowly.

This is called telepathy, miss. I'm telepathic with you. I have telepathic abilities, my friend has hallucinatory abilities, and you have teleportation abilities, baby, the three of us are going to change this world.

"A. I don't understand, what do you mean?" This time Maria moved to the bathroom to be able to scream out loud.

You're part of the necromancer sect, baby.you're part of us. After I took my control of you, you forgot everything you've done, you've forgotten, and now I want to explain everything to you.

Maria can only be silent while confused, if this is a phone from her phone, she must have disconnected and think this person is wrong or not sane.

When you were seventeen, your mother killed herself, for failing to kill you. When your mother wanted to be taken to the hospital for an autopsy, her ambulance crashed and fell into a ravine... we took your mother's body to be cremated and kidnapped you who was dying then healed you. We made you a part of our sect, because healing is not free and your mother has agreed to it all.

"My-mother? But, why?" asked Mary teary-eyed, sitting in a closed closet, she closed her eyes and looked down again at the whisperings she could not stop.

Mary was silent to hear it all, crying out in solitude and silence.

When I was in control of your life, you were the cruelest, most inhumane man, you could have killed two of your own flesh, you skinned them, and you sewed their skin and made it the bag I just bought.

"What the fuck is this! I can't be like that! I live quietly with my two children! I financed them, and raised them through the boutique I owned! Watch your mouth, goddamn it!" maria answered angrily and wept bitterly, and she dropped all the things on the bathroom sink, causing a commotion and woke her son up.

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"What's wrong with mom!?" Deftly Ruben ran upstairs to his mother's room.

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I'm the one who helped you set up that boutique, all this time you've been living in my control, my dear Maria, I'm the one who made it all this way. You should know that, and goodbye, your son will come here. Oh yeah, just try later you snap your fingers while saying which location you want to go to, because last time you used your power, you were still in my control. You found Olav having sex with the woman he was cheating on at the time. You must have forgotten it.

Maria was getting angry to hear it, as she remembered Olav saying goodbye to wandering around looking for work in the capital. Feeling that the whispers were no longer bothering him, he decided to get out of the bathroom, wipe his tears, and open the door.

"What's up, son?" Mary asked Reuben, who immediately fell into Mary's arms.

"I..mom? Mother why just now?" reuben, who had heard the noise from Mary's room, looked very afraid.

"So the mother slipped and accidentally dropped all the items on the sink, son," Maria replied calmly and smiled at her son.

"Is there really nothing mother?" ask Ruben again who looks still wary.

"Right, honey, I'm not lying. And yes, can you disturb your sleep tonight? I want to tell you a story, son," asked Maria in a soft nod by Reuben.

Mary smiled and immediately ordered Reuben to sit with her on the bed.

"What do you want to ask me about?" reuben asked Mary.

Maria just rubbed Ruben's head with a smile and began to ask.