One day I was making my way down the street to another clothing store, where Dean insisted I go to and buy a new dress for a dinner party he was having tonight, when it all happened. I walked into the store and wandered around in pursuit of the perfect dress when I accidentally bumped into some woman.
"I'm so sorry." I apologized as I turned to confront her. She simply smiled and nodded, then went back to her shopping, but when I saw her face, something about her seemed familiar. In that brief moment when her face was turned towards me something inside me knew I had seen her before. Then it all came to me like a ton of bricks.
"Mama." I called out unsure and scared. She immediately turned around to face me, a serious surprised look plastered on her face. I knew it was her, and I stood there frozen.
"Candice?" She called back to me. She slowly began to walk towards me, and my heart stopped beating. The whole room, in fact, disappeared. Suddenly the moment I'd been dreaming of all my life was shattered.
"Mommy, mommy." A little girl shouted as she ran towards Mama and clung to her leg. An older man who I only presumed was the child's father, and Mama's new husband soon followed her.
" Darling, who's this?" The gentleman asked referring to me. I stood there waiting for her to answer, but she didn't instead she froze and seemed unable to speak.
"No one, Darling." She finally replied. She then dashed out of the store with her new family.
"Good bye Mrs. Dubune." A clerk woman called out. As for me I still stood there frozen and numb. I had waited so long to see her glowing face and to hear her call me her "baby" like she use to. But instead she turned away and left me without even saying a word to me. Once my mind had processed the whole event I ran home, holding back tears. I rushed into the house and into Dean's office. I needed comforting and I knew Dean would be the only one to give it to me.
