Disclaimers: Not mine
Spoilers: Inside The Box
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THE PERFECT FAMILY
(Chapter 3)
"Mom?"
Catherine was looking out of the plane's window when her daughter's voice interrupted her thoughts. She turned to Lindsey in the seat beside her. "Yeah, baby?"
Lindsey scrunched up her nose and whined, "Mom, stop calling me that!"
Catherine let out a small chuckle. "My bad." Lindsey rolled her eyes at her mother's use of 'modern slang', which prompted another chuckle out of Catherine. "No matter what I call you, you'll always be my baby, Linds."
This seemed to get to Lindsey, who sighed in defeat and leaned back in her chair, "Fine."
"So what were you going to ask me?"
"When was the last time I saw Grandma?"
Catherine didn't need to think to know the answer. "Actually, you've never met her."
"Not even when I was a baby?"
"Nope." She offered no further explanation hoping her daughter would drop the issue.
Lindsey didn't. "Why not?"
"Because...she lives in Montana. I never had the time to...bring you there." Catherine explained unconvincingly.
"So I'm meeting her for the first time?"
And maybe the last. Catherine kept her thoughts to herself though, allowing her silence to signify the end of this conversation. If she herself couldn't deal with this, how could she possibly explain it to her daughter?
She went back to staring out the window, counting down each second to the moment when she would face the mother she thought she had lost so many years ago.
*To be continued*