Mom Don't Worry Mom I'll Leave Novel by Arogina _ Novel




Mom Don't Worry Mom I'll Leave Chapter 01

On New Year's Eve, my sister, Vivian Vasquez, dragged me to the village entrance to watch the fireworks.
Some bratty kid tossed a burning firecracker the wrong way, and it exploded right next to my ear.
After a brief burst of agony and a deafening buzz, the world fell silent to me forever.
The doctor said my cochlea was badly damaged, and surgery wasn't an option.
I went deaf and fell into depression.
Vivian took a year off from school and stayed with me every day.
She said, "Alex, I'm sorry. Scream at me, hurt me, but please... don't shut me out."
Dad quit his job and became a stay-at-home father, taking care of everything in my daily life.
"Alex, what do you feel like eating today? I'll make it for you."
Mom looked like she had aged ten years from the stress.
She traveled all over the world for my treatment and spent all our savings to have a pair of expensive hearing aids custom-made for me in Germany.
But it barely worked half the time. The sound kept cutting out.
They protected and cherished me with the utmost care, a devotion that lasted for five whole years.
I thought love could heal anything, and I would eventually crawl out of the darkness.
Then the blow came: Mom's business partner ran off with the money. Overwhelmed by the mess left behind, she didn't return home until the dead of night.
She sat on the edge of my bed, exhausted, and asked if I'd been good today and if I'd taken my medicine on time.
She asked again and again, but I couldn't make out a single word.
Her patience finally ran out.
She screamed, "You can't hear! You can't hear anything! You stay in your room all day like you don't even exist!
"Why didn't the explosion just kill you back then? At least then you wouldn't be torturing me like this!"
She thought I couldn't hear her, but at that exact moment, my hearing aid kicked back on.
Every word landed like a needle straight into my heart.
So I'd been torturing Mom this whole time, and she wanted me dead.
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Mother stormed out and flung the door shut, leaving the entire frame trembling in her wake.
Silence reclaimed the room, heavy and stifling. It was a void more frightening than the literal silence I had lived in since losing my hearing.
I curled under the blanket, squeezing myself into the smallest ball I could, like a frightened little animal.
I held a large brown teddy bear tightly in my arms, clutching it as if it were my only lifeline.
It was Mom's gift to me on my first birthday after I went deaf.
Back then, she held the bear—which was almost as tall as I was—kissed me with a smile, then wrote: "Alex, I'm busy with work and can't always be by your side.
"Consider this bear as me. It will protect you forever."
The stuffed bear was still smiling. But Mom, who had promised she'd protect me forever, had just said she wished I were dead.
Tears spilled out uncontrollably, falling in heavy drops that soaked the pillow in seconds.
I thought of Dad.
He used to laugh all the time and loved the outdoors. But for my sake, he had barely gone anywhere these past few years.
The corners of his eyes were lined with wrinkles.
Whenever I looked at him, he would force a smile and speak slowly, one word at a time. He was afraid I wouldn't understand.
Then, I thought of Vivian.
She was the most popular girl in school. She had a flair for fashion and always looked radiant.
Because of her looks and her warm personality, she was surrounded by friends.
For my sake, she took a year off school. She grew quiet and withdrawn, no longer caring to dress herself up.
She hovered around me, constantly trying to coax a smile out of me, like a guilty prisoner doing penance.
And Mom... She used to carry me on her shoulders so I could see the world...
But now, she worked herself to exhaustion for my medical bills and hearing aids, and gray hairs shot up at her temples before I could even notice.
Mom was right.
I was a burden.

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