Writing To Mom
Cast:
Cure Whip, Usami Ichika - age 13
May, 2017
Dear Mother,
It is warm outside and the sky is fair and blue. We have been seeing plenty of sunshine. It is not yet summer, but with weather so pleasant, it may as well be.
How are you? I can tell that I have been growing, because... because. Day by day, it is hard to tell, so I can only wonder at how much I may have changed since we last saw each other. How much more childish is the image of me in your memories? When we next see each other, will you still see me as a child?
I know that your work is important. I know that it would be selfish to ask that you stay here with me and Dad, when there are so many lives that you can save in the places you travel. Even so, I miss you. I am sure Dad misses you too. I miss you so much that I cannot selflessly deny it.
I want to see you. I want to spend time with you. I want to bake sweets for you, and have you tell me what you think of them. I won't be so selfish as to ask for you to stay with us forever, but please, come home more.
Ichika pauses and puts her pen down. She lowers her head to rest on the table.
"Ugh- it all sounds so lame! It's just a love letter! It's just a letter to Mom! Shouldn't my true feeling sound a little more persuasive?"
She turns her head slightly so that she is looking out the window. It is nighttime, and the stars are out.
"Rio... must have somebody like this, right? Is that why he was so hurtful about it, because he was hurt the same way?"
Ichika sighs, then tilts her head back to stare at her ceiling.
"What do I even know about Rio, anyway? He never talks about his family. His special person could be a friend. It could be a girl-"
"Aaah!" she shouts, clapping her hands to her cheeks and forcing herself to sit upright. "I haven't got time for this! I've got a letter to write!"