408 Elena's Horse

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Elena never really enjoyed much coming to the countryside. It was always nasty, it smelled like farm animal poop all over, and her family was always overly clingy with her. She never really had a time to breathe by herself. She had even stayed at home a few times, while her mother came to visit alone. She never really thought why her mother always got upset because she disliked seeing her family, it wasn't as if affected them or hurt them somehow, right?

Yet… as time went by, and as her mind cooled down and she went through many things, today was somewhat different. Even though she thought that this was a pain, it didn't felt like a pain anymore. And even… if it felt tiring, it wasn't really tiring.

And even when she expressed her discontent with her family for being so clingy and corny, she didn't really… disliked them either. Deep down she… she felt happy.

Why?

Why did she never felt happy before though?

Or did she?