Reality kick

"to be utterly as you are, and that you laughed at the most unfunny things baring the chip off your tooth and someone loved you for it"

The hospital reports showed the woman who looked middle-aged with sagged eyes was only twenty-eight and the child was her fifth. He was as pale as a ghost not in a way that could be admired, anyone could know the child was lacking in natural pigments. After a high risk pregnancy, the mother too had been low on protein and high in blood pressure and had to be put to bed rest since third trimester, it was a miracle she and her infant were well.

She eyed them both suspiciously, the student doctors as they examined the boy, the distrust in her eyes since the first day she had seen Sadyah and Salima in her ward. She had argued first but relented later but still not completely putting her hopes in them.