"How could you be those m-, those things?" said Danielle as he slapped her daughter Desiree across her face. Desiree was so shocked that she was unable to move. How could her own mother not accept her as she is, a mutant?
"Bu,t Mom, I'm still me, your daughter." Desiree said tearfully. She walked back to insure that she could dodge Danielle's future strikes.. "Mom, don't you love me?"
Danielle walked away ashamed not because she stroked her daughter but because her daughter was a freak in her eyes. How could her only daughter be one of those things.
Danielle went in the den and grabbed a beer. She chugged it down. She wanted to get so drunk that she wouldn't remember that her daughter told her that she was a mutant.
Desiree stayed in her room crying. She thought about how it would have been like if her father was still alive. Her father was always calm and accepting. She could remember her father's deep but soft voice. He had large warm hands. Hands that he would pat her head with. It just wasn't fair that her father wasn't here when she needed him the most.
She put her face in the pillow so no one could hear. No one cares about what they can not hear. She had nobody. She once thought she had her mother to confide to, but she was obviously very wrong. Danielle only cared about two things herself and her beer.
"Oh, my love how miss you." Desiree said after she had calmed down a bit. She didn't quite know who this love was, but she always find herself saying it. She did this even when she was a little girl. When she said it she didn't feel like herself but like a different person..
After she thought about leaving for a few hours, she decided to go. She did not want to stay where she wasn't wanted. She did not know where to go, but she couldn't stay here. She packed a suitcase, grabbed a large thick coat, and took a couple hundred dollars from her mother's purse.
Danielle had blacked out on the couch from heavy drinking. Desiree kissed her mother's forehead and left.
"I'm sorry," Danielle started to wake up from her black-out," I'm sorry. I do still love you. I'm sorry." Sadly Desiree was no longer here to hear her.
"How my love how I miss you, and we will meet again." said Desiree as she looked at the strange yellow moon.