Chapitre 19: Strange Feelings
After twenty minutes drive David pulls his car in a curb and turns off his engine.
"Here we are." He says, looking at Sabrina who was busy observing her surrounding.
"At the cemetery? Don't tell me you have something fatal in your mind." David chuckles at her absurdness.
"Let's go." He says, moving out of the car while Sabrina follows hesitantly behind.
As soon as she comes out of the car David reaches her and holds her hand again. She gives him a hesitant look and he squeezes her hand reassuringly, conveying silently that she need not worry.
David pulls her with him as he walks inside the cemetery garden. He stops at the 3rd block, in front of a neat grave. He was still holding her hand tightly.
Sabrina notices that his hold has become slightly tighter, not the kind to anguish pain but the kind in need of some support. She looks at the headstone which tells the grave belonged to some woman named Scarlett Paul. She died in 1998 and was a loving wife, daughter, and a mother.
"It's my first," David says, looking at the headstone. Sabrina looks back from David to the headstone.
"Who is she?" David takes a deep breath before looking at Sabrina who looked back at him now.
"My mother." Sabrina's breathing stopped and her eyes went wide. She had never imagined that she'd meet his mother here out of the whole world. "I have never brought anyone here before."
"I'm sorry..." Sabrina didn't know what words to use in order to comfort him.
"Why are you sorry? You didn't do anything." David laughs lightly.
"Still... It must have been hard bringing me here but you didn't need to-"
"I needed not to but I wanted to." He looks in her brown eyes as he moves closer. "It's strange how I feel towards you." He takes her hands in his. "Is it wrong to feel this way too soon?" Sabrina doesn't say anything but keep's looking at his face.
This was the same question she had been trying to find an answer for.
"It's a feeling which makes me want to protect you, which wants me to cherish every moment I share with you, which never want me to let go you off far... And it's strange that I haven't felt like this before." David chuckles, confusedly and releases his hold on her hands, taking Sabrina by surprise. "It might sound funny, sheesh! What has got into me." He bites his lips, and laughs looking down and then looks back at his mother's grave. "I just wanted you to meet my mother... so now we are equal at our first's." He runs his hands through his hair and gives her an empty smile. "Let's go back." David without looking at Sabrina walks out of her sight and out of the cemetery.
Sabrina watches his back until it disappears and then looks at his mother's grave and leans down to pluck out a flower from the corner that still seemed a little fresh. She places the flower beneath the tombstone and then stands back. She takes a deep breath.
"I'm sorry we had to meet like this if I had known I would have brought some fresh flowers for you... And about your son, um... He had been very clingy and obnoxious since the beginning." she laughs, lightly. "Not to mention a stalker and a flirt..." She snorts, thinking about his daily drills. "But I don't find these traits annoying, I mean not anymore that is." She clears her throat "I think you have an amazing son that you should be proud of... He brought me here to meet you and... I think it's enough for me to notice his heart. He is good at heart. Thank you, ma'am, for giving birth to such a child." She hears the honk of David's car and hurriedly bows her head in front of the grave and bids her goodbye to his mother and scurries off towards the exit.
Cadeaux
-- Cadeau
reçu État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
-- Classement
Power Stone 
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