Zoren stared at his palm as he sat in the back seat, heading to his last meeting before taking a few hours of rest before tonight’s party. The Pierson Family gathering had never been something he looked forward to, especially not today after his session with Doctor Tan’s colleague.
’What was that about?’ he wondered, closing his eyes as he took a deep breath. ’What a strange memory to remember.’
He knew some things about his mother, though only fragments of her. After all, he was young when the incident with her happened. Then, shortly afterward, his father’s fatal accident had taken place.
In other words, everything before his father’s death was vague. That included his mother.
The doctors said it was due to the trauma and shock he had endured. It wasn’t as though Zoren had ever tried to recall those memories. He didn’t want to remember his mother at all. In his mind, she was better off dead.
Vengeful? Zoren could be called that. His mother had tried to kill him, stabbing him, and then locking him in their home before setting the house on fire. The scar she left him remained, even though it had happened decades ago. He saw no need to remember a memory filled only with pain and disappointment.
’But why...?’ his thoughts trailed off, replaying his brief, troubling trip down memory lane. ’Why did I have to see that?’
Why did his memory carry such a distorted image of himself?
It was strange.
Zoren planned to see if there was anything he could do to recover his vision. His eye problems had started with his last accident — long before he’d even met the adult Penny. The accident was partly to blame, but he was certain his growing helplessness around meeting his "Thursday Girl" heavily contributed as well.
’I only planned to go back to that memory,’ he told himself, his jaw tightening. ’But I went too far.’
Straightening his back, he leaned back and closed his eyes, steadying his breathing despite the lingering sense of unease.
Meanwhile, Benjamin kept glancing at Zoren in the back seat. Since Zoren had left Doctor Tan’s office, he had been unusually quiet.
"Sir, are you okay?" Benjamin asked quietly, trying not to bother him too much. "You don’t seem well."
Zoren’s Adam’s apple bobbed as he replied, "Mhm. My head hurts a little."
"Ah. Okay. Good thing there are still plenty of pills Miss Penny gave me, just in case." Benjamin quickly checked the compartment, pulling out an emergency medicine organizer containing all of Zoren’s essential medications.
He took out a pill and held it out to Zoren. "Sir, you should take one to ease the pain."
"I’m alright."
"But Miss Penny said you should take these medicines she prepared for times like this."
’Now that I think about it...’ Zoren paused, recalling his mother’s expression. ’She looked...’
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