I'm probably not going to do a follow-up for theme 34 forgotten. Simply because I have no ideas whatsoever for it. Sorry if I disappoint anyone. =P
Somehow, she had known that sending her little girl away wouldn't help things. Somehow, she had known that it would make things worse.
But she was still scared, and Hideo didn't want her in the house, because he was even more fearful, so she said nothing. And anyway, perhaps it was for the best – they weren't getting on at all. Perhaps a change in the environment would help Aki become the smiley child she had been before. Maybe. She had thought that, hoped it, and clung onto it as her lame excuse for pretty much abandoning her daughter. Ignored the doubts.
But now, all of those doubts came back. As Aki, still in school uniform stood outside the window with her wide eyes pleading, begging for a different truth, trying to see something other than her parents being happy without her, she started to realised what a huge mistake she had made.
She wanted to fix it, so she stepped forward.
But that seemed to be the wrong thing to do. The troubled face switched to an angry, hating face, and her daughter revealed her scary, scary powers-the thing that had started the whole disaster- to shatter the window and run away again.
She watched the fragments of glass fall to the ground slowly, and wondered how she could not have noticed her little girl's heart breaking in the same way.