7 times you wish you could turn back time and do things differently.1. Deciding to not go to college so I could stay home to take care of Mom. I got accepted to the college of my dreams, Stanford, and their engineering program. I know I did the right thing, since I couldn’t really leave her since she’d just had a heart attack, but I still wish that ( Read more... )

Gabriel’s heart pounded in his chest as he ran up the stairs to the apartment he shared with his mother. He cringed as the door banged against the wall in his rush to throw it open, though the worry about getting yelled at for that quickly disappeared as it hit him again just why he was in such a rush to get inside. Shoes were slipped off in the ( Read more... )

”I’m really glad that you could see me today, Mom,” Gabriel said, a small smile appearing on his face, and he glanced up at her for a moment before he turned his attention back to his cup, twisting it in his hands. “It’s…it’s good.”

( Oh, Gabriel, of course I have time to see you. )

As horrible as it was, Gabriel had always hoped that his mother would fall ill before she died. If she fell ill, he would have time to prepare what was inevitably going to come. He would be able to time it, to say good bye to her properly. To tell her that despite the argument they had had, and the times where they had disagreed, that he was still ( Read more... )

( TEN movie characters you would love to be for a day )

1. “I’m sorry, Mommy,” Gabriel said softly, crawling up onto the bed where his Mother was sitting, crying, and he wrapped his arms around her neck to hug her tightly. He knew that it wasn’t his fault what had happened, but when she was said, he felt that he should say it. It was what they said at funerals after all, and since her husband, and his ( Read more... )

( All ten moments. )

”Mommy? What’s wrong? Why are you crying?” the little boy asks, his eyes wide as he looks up at his mother. She’s peeling the potatoes that she’s going to be using to make mashed potatoes later for dinner, but at the same time, there are tears streaming down her cheeks, and he doesn’t understand ( Read more... )

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