OPEN SECRET

After dinner, she held my elbow like I was some sort of a kid who needed to be disciplined, she was quiet, and into my room she dropped on my bed, bitting her index finger while she pastes about, thinking possibly on what to tell me as a lie or maybe how to hide the secret I just found out. I was silent as well ranging thoughts in my head and watching her paste about.

For a long while she kept on doing it without stopping, I got tired and slept off hoping to hear from her when she is ready.

"wake up!" I heard a small still voice dragging my pajamas, like a trance, but it kept on becoming louder to my ears, then I snapped off

"Whattt!, Oh, mum"

"Yes, come quickly," she said rushing down the stairs and towards the dining table, then the kitchen cabinet. She brought out the orb from whence she kept, I was still feeling sleepy but she on the other hand was very much awake.

She wrapped her face with a muffler while she gave me a hoodie to put on, after which we both tip-toed out of the house.

She got into the car and forced me in as well.

"Mum, please where are we going?" I asked, she never uttered a word, all murmuring and scratching a hair in disbelief, I was still in shock and speechless all the time.

We got to a distant house not too far from mine, and she stopped and asked me to hold the orb for a second, looking at her innocently I took it and glance at it, the orb shimmered for a bit and fades out.

"Mum, what's going on"? at this point I was totally lost in what was playing out, she nodded her head after which, she came out of the car and ask that I followed her in return.

We walked past the house and into the woods we kept on walking, I was tired but never backed out, I wanted to know where the end of this reality will take us both.

The orb was placed on her right palm while she stretched it out for direction, I guess, we walked for a long while until I could hear the sound of any humans around the area, and we stopped.

She stood for awhile, gazing at the orb she spoke some words that I can't even identify, then she flung the orb as far as her hands can carry her.

In shock I opened my mouth, not knowing what to say, I looked at her wondering what made her do such, she never made a reply of such, she held my hands and dragged me out of the woods and then back to the car.

We got in and she drove abruptly

"Mum, what's going on?" I was confused and needed answers from her, she wasn't responding to my questions, and I was furious and snapped.

"Mum, please stop this car!" I yelled out without considering who I was yelling to.

At that point I could hear the screeching sound of the motor wheels, all covered in smoke, she stopped and gazed at me in anger, her chest, pouncing up down her nighty, she was angry I could feel it, her skin hand turned pink, boiling in her own anger I spoke.

"Mum, if you don't tell me what's going on here, I will come down from this car and you will never see me again."

"OH, will you just shut up" she shouted with a frown face, she looked at me like a wicked soul.

"I don't want you to say a word about this night to your father or anyone at school," she said, looking at me.

"But why" I was ready for the worse and this time around I was never going to back out.

"In fact, today never existed," she said spinning her hands in a circle and uttering words that I can't even fathom.

"Mum, you can't hypnotize me into forgetting what happened here" I exclaimed and jumped out of the car.

"Zucha!, come back here" she shouted, I wasn't ready to sit there and watch her hypnotize me into forgetting everything. She saw I wasn't coming back.

" I can't do this no more," I said to myself walking slowly to were ever I thought was right to follow, she drove closer to me, and tried persuading me to come in but I wasn't, seeing that I wasn't ready to get in until she was ready to talk.

She stopped moving forward, and switch off the car lights and the engine too, at first I was scared, my mind was racing like a treadmill, I felt like running but I kept my stand and was walking at a low pace just to see what she would do, quickly she came out of the car to get to me, but I was still walking, my both hands inside the pocket hoodie all covered with it, I walked slowly.

Then she came closer to my front view, and hit my shoulder bone with force to stop me from moving forward, I looked at her, she was frightened too and all sweating, my soft spot came back on, I saw she was trying to protect me from something, just can't say but her appearance seems so.

"Mum, please I need answers, am human" I felt bad within me.

"My son, I understand how you feel, but it's best you don't know right now" She tried to hug me but I relented.

"NO Mum, I can't keep doing this to myself" Quickly I bounce back to the other corner and increase my pace.

"Okay! I will tell you, but first let's get to the car" she shouted, standing all confused and frustrated.

For a moment I felt bad, her voice sounded sorrowful and hurt, my mum was never the kind that gets all emotional when things happened. I could remember when she had a stillbirth, she never cared to stay at home to sulk, she quickly got on back to work while my dad mourns over his lost daughter.

Almost all the time he goes to a nursery to shed some tears while watching the colors and decorations.

Zach told me at that moment that she wasn't going to have another child due to the delivery she had, but my mum never took it seriously. She felt relieved in a way and acted for a moment to cry but later cleaned up herself.

I envied her emotional intelligence and courage at that time, a woman who has lost so much never bothered about it but rather moved on in life in a cheerful manner-

"Please, get in" softly spoken

I felt a bit relieved, we both got into the car, and she drove as fast as she could without uttering a word or two while driving, I kept quiet as well.

The day was almost breaking when we got home, she drove the car into the garage, switch off the engine, and locked all the doors, then she looked at me for a second.

"I don't want your dad to know about the orb we are wolves and I think you are too" With those words she opened the car and ask me to get out.