XI Postcards

She knows she shouldn't let him play with the postcards. But there's no way she could bring herself to stop him and take them away. She loves to see the bright smile on his face when he tries to read his father's cursive handwriting, when he asks what every kanji means.

She doesn't want to see the smile fading, so she lies.

She doesn't tell him what those heartbreaking characters mean. She can't. There's no way she could wipe that smile off from his beautiful face.

So she makes up something nice to say. How beautiful the town is. How he misses home. How he will return soon.

She never mentions those painful words written on the thick paper, addressed to his parents.

Never to her.

I'm sorry.

She won't tell that smudges on the cards are tears. Both hers and his mother's. Maybe even his father's. She wouldn't know.

I need some time to myself.

Her son is a bright boy, and she knows that soon he will understand what his father wrote on the thick paper years ago.

She can't let him read the cards much longer.

I'm not sure if I can ever face her again.

So she gently lays them in a box, puts on a lid and places the box out of his reach and sight knowing, that there will be an argument coming once the boy notices that the old postcards are missing.

But he's just a child. Soon he will forget and move on.

I just want her to be happy.

Oh she wishes that she could do the same.

But she knows that she could never stop wondering what happened to him.

Why, seven years ago, the postcards just stopped coming?

Even if it's without me.

Wow, it surely has been a while since I posted anything. My life just has been so hectic since last summer with moving to the other side of the country, spending time with the boyfriend and attending university. :'D

To those who are reading my Ao no Exorcist -story 'Face Your Demons': I'm about the halfway to the eleventh chapter. I hope that I'll get it written before summer, but I'll make no promises (you can see story statuses on my profile).

And back to this story... there will be about four or so chapters left. After that I'll move to the actual story called 'Seven Years Later' (I might change the title later, idk). It will hopefully answer all the questions 'Awoken' has raised. I know that chapters have been short ones, and that has been my intention from the very beginning. I promise that the main story will have a lot longer chapters.

Thank you all who read, reviewed, favorited and followed this story! ^^