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The wail of sirens echoed throughout the small town in Washington while rain poured from the pregnant clouds above. A small five year old toddled over to a police car just as a young looking man in a white fedora scooped him up. "John! Oh, John! Thank, God, you're okay." The man kissed the small toddler's face over and over again.
Before this…
A quarrel went between Mr. and Mrs. Egbert; Mrs. Egbert with a bottle of wine in one hand while the other continued to point a finger at Mr. Egbert in anger.
John sat in the same room as them just minding his own business. He held a small periwinkle bear in his left arm, his hands were busying themselves with his blocks. The small toddler dressed in feety pajamas covered in Ghostbuster logo's looked up at his mother and father. "Mama, look at what I did!" He had spelled out 'mama.'
Mr. Egbert looked down. "Look at that, Cadence! He's spelled out mama again! You really need to stop this drinking of yours!"
Cadence, his mother, had a cute bob of black hair that curled this way and that; she held beautiful blue eyes and freckles over her nose. Her cheeks were a pale pink and she looked over at her son that resembled her. "It's not him, Wallace!" she shouted angrily. "It's you! You don't really love me!"
"I do love you!" Wallace shouted back.
Cadence wasn't listening anymore. She picked up John causing him to drop his bear to the floor, whining in protest. He just wanted to play more!
"Wallace, I'm leaving!" she shouted at the man.
Wallace, Mr. Egbert, frowned and said, "No, you're not taking John!"
"I'll be back! I just need to buy more wine!" she shouted, pulling away from the man. Before Wallace could do much more, she was out the door with John. She drove off to the nearest gas station.
John sat in the back of the small car with a small toy rabbit that he had left in here from a previous trip to the store while his mother got out of the car, muttering angrily. She opened the door, placed John on his feet outside and filled up the car with gas even though it didn't need it. She looked down at her son and asked, "Do you want a cookie?"
John nodded excitedly! He loved cookies- mostly his mommy's though!
Cadence placed the gas pump back on the cradle, picked John up, and went inside grabbing a bottle of wine, a small bottle of milk, and a cookie. She bought everything, handed John the milk and cookies then just walked out without him, not bothering to hold his hand. She got into the car, took a drink of the wine, and drove off rather quickly.
John, meanwhile, ate the cookie ravenously and greedily like any other small child would. He couldn't help it! It tasted pretty good! Once finished, the boy with cookie crumbs on his face, he took a big drink of his milk then looked around taking notice his mommy wasn't there. He whimpered and went out the door quickly, pushing through people's legs. "M-mommy?" John cried softly trying to not draw attention to himself yet.
The car was gone! He quickly toddled down the parking lot of the gas station then toward the road- a loud car horn went off along with loud sirens. His eyes grew wide. "Mommy?!"
Several police cars drove by wailing loudly!
Cadence Egbert at the age of 28 died instantly after running into a tree because she swerved off the road.
John, now 16, sat up quickly crying out loudly, "Mommy! Mommy…" Followed by a whisper, "Mommy isn't coming back…"
Dave looked over at John, rubbing his eyes. "John, are you okay?"
"I'm fine," John lied. He moved close to his heat source and shook. He had these nightmares about his mother's death quite often… The worst part was that his own father blamed him for his mother's death.