Part 14
I just stood there and glared at my mother for about 5 minutes. Now was not the best time for her to be around me; I had my hands full trying to stay under Dad's radar. I still needed to get Amy back!
"Maya, would you mind telling us who this is?" Shifu asked me.
I had almost forgotten that Shifu and Tigress were in the room.
"Master Shifu, this is Lexi. She's my mother" I replied with no emotion.
My mother gritted her teeth as I told Tigress and Shifu who she was; I guess she thought I was talking to two strangers.
"Master Shifu, may I speak to my mother alone for a few minutes?" I asked.
"Of course Maya" he said.
Tigress and Shifu walked out of the room, leaving me alone with my mother.
"Mom" I said, as if I was talking to some bully at school.
"Maya, why did you tell them who I was? What have I told you-" she started, but I cut her off.
"YOU? You haven't taught me anything! You left me and Dad; you didn't even tell me goodbye! Dad's had to raise me for 9 years on his own."
"Maya, listen to me. I am sorry for leaving you and your father, but I left because I love you. And you weren't completely alone, Amy and her parents live right next door" she told me. She was trying to make it sound as if nothing had happened!
"You're missing the point Mom. Why did you come back?" I asked, my impatience was getting the best of me.
Mom didn't answer my question; she just sat there staring at the floor. I was about to ask her again when she asked me a question that I couldn't understand.
"What?" I asked her.
"What are you doing here Maya? Why are you with these people?" she asked me again.
"I live here now. These 'people', as you call them, are my friends" I told her.
"What do you mean, 'you live here now' Maya?"
"I mean just that. Now, please leave."
I followed Mom out the front door, and watched her leave. I sighed as I walked back inside. Even though she had left me and Dad, a part of me felt guilty about the conversation we had. I shook as much of the guilt away from me as I could, and walked to the Training Hall.