Flashes Of The Past V

Her face swollen and painted red with fury, Cassina stood pointing her trembling finger threateningly at her own son. Her hawk-like eyes desperately attempted to remain open, but failed, and clinched in irritation from the disheveled strands of dirty blonde hair strewn chaotically on her visage.

In the tense silence of the room, only Cassina’s huffs of anger remained. But those quickly turned into frantic stuttering. “N-No...I-I didn’t-“

Clasping her shaky hands over her mouth in lamentation, Cassina’s eyes widened in horror just as much as her own son’s widened in shock and disbelief.

For a few crushing moments, Cassina came to regret everything she had done.

However no matter how much she cursed herself in her mind or how much her nails dug into her cheek, it was all too late.

“Jonas!!” she screamed, and another voice deeper than her own followed. Together they hoped their voices would reach the running figure of their only child.