Dusk and Ice

Will Grant airport was not so welcoming but it felt like home. San Frease was a lot more compar

coat, and wool-lined trousers were too light for the biting cold that was already eating away at my f

nished the moment I set my foot on the land. The hustling bodies attending to themselves and their families, minding their own

h-red hair I had seen in the picture mom had sent to me. Pretending to know my way around was not difficult since not so many people were paying a

blend in properly and after a while, I started to see the foolishness of my thinking as nothing was more awkward than pretend

tinctively I wrapped my hands around mom's small body. My bags fell on the floor with a heavy thud, the wheel on my bigger bags gave out and fell at our feet. I didn't care about those, the only thing that mattered was the small, short and tiny figure hugging me with such fierce strength, a

from her eyes and cheeks. She laughed, a very shaky la

me. She held on again, this time tighter

lo that was close to panic "I thought you will change your mind a..a..a

se against my shirt in an attempt to calm down then heaved a sigh and freed herself once more to look into my face "I find that hard to

temple, and my lips. People passed without blinking an eye, those who understood smiled in the direction of a mother and her son reuniting. Mothe

ied dad and became a Hunter. She squeezed my hand and started to pick my bags up but I stopped her and heaved the heavy bags up myself and followed her as she led the way to her old bea

king care of her spoilt son. The cold outside was worse than I expected and my fingers were unbearably numb. Mom opened the doors of the van quickly and turned on the heat

and even the heater which was humming softly couldn't drive out the cold from my fingers but mom didn't seem bothered, she wasn't even shaking as much as I was. She drove the car smoothly on the road like she was very much used to the slickness of the roads already. Everywhere we passed there were billboards of different products ranging from Cosmetics, can food brands and even pet food brands. Billboards were advertising new movies shown or still to be shown at the cinema. Dad would have seen this place as a great place to plant a business, he would have taken advantage of the sprawling civilization and used it for his own benefit, his eagle eyes would have seen the right sectors to take dominion

like it was a kind of law. People of different sizes and colors were moving around doing their own business, shouting greetings at one another. It was a picture of a peaceful neighborhood where no one had to wat

anyone who comes arou

people immediately doesn't appeal to me but I also know that one way or another I would have to build the end

light from her headlamps I saw a dark blue SUV jeep on her drive. I raised a brow at her, "Are we expecting anyo

for you. He is afraid I mig

front door which mom was trying to open, the terrace ran round the side of the house and from where I was standing it looked like there were two chairs with a table up there. The door opened and mom reached for the switch and in the next moment, half the first floor was flooded with light. The hardwood floor promised permanent injury if by chance anyone gets unlucky enough to fall on it though it was nicely polished and scrubbed. The wooden seats of the two chairs arranged in the main hall were covered with purple hand-sewn clothes that provided a kind of comfort from the hard

the neatly made bed and sat down on it too. She shrugged out of her coat, then the jacket she was wearing underneath. "I'm so happy to have you home with me DeShawn you don't know how..." her voice broke and she stopped talking long enough to regain her composure "I've dreamt of times like this but I never thought it would be possible t

er throat "Let me go downstairs and

us laugh. I took her hand "I'll help you wi

learn. I told her so and she laughed saying she didn't want anything disastrous to happen to her good cooking. We went down and she turn on all the lights as we passed. The kitchen was fairly large but it had every necessary thing needed in a k