*Flashback over*

Michael POV:

I walk into the house and smell this sweet aroma. Mom's making gumbo. My absolute favorite but I don't have the appetite to eat. I walk into the kitchen and see my mother at the stove.

Momma: Hey baby, how was school?

Michael: It was fine.

Momma: Ok baby, well dinner will be ready in 30 minutes.

Michael: OK.

OK was all I said. I just wanted to go to my room.

Momma: Michael I wanna talk to you.

Michael: OK, what's up?

Momma POV:

I wanna talk to Michael to see where his mind is. He's not the same person he use to be.

Michael: Ok, what's up?

Momma; Well, I just want to see where your mind is or better yet, what's on your mind?

Michael: What do you mean?

Momma: Well you haven't been yourself lately. Its like ever since Eddie died, you haven't been fully there. It's like you have completely given up.

Michael POV:

I honestly wanted to leave. I didn't want to hear any of this but I certainly wasn't going to be rude.

Michael: I'm fine....but it's like you don't even care that he's gone.

Mom: Baby I do care, more than you'll know but I've learned slowly to let go and let God take care of it. It's in his hands now.

Is she serious? I can't believe I'm hearing this.

Michael: Well what exactly can I say? You show you're not bothered by it.

Momma: Baby it's in God's hands now. We loved him but God loved him more.

Michael: All I'm hearing is God this and God that. Well why did God take what was most important to us? Huh?

I was in verge of tears. I can't take it.

Momma: Baby, God had a plan. He works in mysterious ways. People come into your life and they go but its all for experience and for you to learn. Eddie was on this earth simply for God's plan. Honey, think of it like this, Eddie was an angel in disguise. When his mission on Earth was fulfilled, God called him home. He called one of his angel's home. He loved you. I love you both more than life itself. You are all I have left.

Michael:.....

Momma: If you don't hear anything I say, baby please hear this. Eddie will always..ALWAYS be in our hearts. Forever, ok?

Michael: *lightly smiling* ok

Mom: There's that beautiful smile I miss. You don't show it anymore. If it's not too much to ask, I would love to see it more often.

I slowly nod

Michael: If its okay with you, I'd like to go do my homework.

Momma: *chuckles* Ok honey.

She walks back to the stove. As I was walking towards the door after getting up from my chair, I stop.

Michael: Mother?

Momma: Yes.

Michael: How did you become so wise?

Momma: Knowledge, baby, Knowledge.

Michael: Ok

I walk out the kitchen and go upstairs to my room because its the only place where I can think. I put my backpack next to my bed and I lay in my bed..thinking. My mother's words haunt my mind. She seem like she's calm about all of this but I know she's probably hurting but maybe she has moved on. I wish I could but I can't. I can't let go. I wish he was here so badly. I wanted him here. I slowly drift off to sleep thinking Eddie.