“Mom”, I said , “We have something to say”.
My mom thought it was strange we were sitting like this and talking, it was always very informal and all of a sudden we were talking making it look very serious.
“What is it? I have never seen you like this?” Mom said.
“Mom, You have been a great mom to us, but …” Uma started.
“But …. What?” Mom looked at us, her eyes getting smaller and looking curiously at us.
“You have neglected yourself in the process” Uma continued.
“We want you to be happy” I said.
“I am happy, my lovely ones, thanks to you, you have never given me cause to worry” She replied
“No, mom, he means that you should also have fun” Uma said looking at me.
“What fun?” she enquired.
“We want you to go out and enjoy without us kids to think about” She said lowering her head and I did too.
“What are you kids saying?”, mom said looking clearly amused.
“Mom, We think you should go out, find a man you like and get married” I said looking up for a second and lowering my head down again.
“Get married? Get married? Have you two gone crazy?” Mom said still amused and breaking out in laughter.
“Kids” She just smiled and looked at us.
“I am happy, I don’t need a man to make myself happy, I have been happy with you kids around, besides I really don’t want anyone else and coming breaking us apart, we should always stay together and I will do everything to make us stay together, I cannot take a second break-up” She said a little serious.
“Mom” my sister replied, “We thought this would make things easy for all us, besides we could pass the person up as our father” my sister inadvertently said.
Mom was shocked and shouted at her “Is this about your marriage?”
“No, No, mom, it is about you having someone to be with, everyone should be with a special someone” my sister started sobbing
“Look, I have a problem trusting men, and I will marry any man if I cannot trust him” She said and hugged my sister, “Of course my son is the only exception” She continued and hugged me as well.
After this conversation, things became a little quiet, and I took mom and my sister for a small vacation to break the monotony. We took a hotel with a private balcony where we could view the waters. There was a man in the hotel, who was troubling my mom constantly, at first I was letting it go, hoping mom might get interested, then when mom complained to me, I went and gave him a big mouthful and stop looking at her. He looked at me, was pissed off and left. I came back to mom and she hugged me tight thanking me. My mom had been walking for a while outside, and I could smell her sweat on her forehead and I took my t-shirt to wipe it, as I was wiping it, my hand slipped on her breasts. I immediately took it away and apologized to mom. My mom smiled and said it was ok, as I was her hero and we both laughed.
My sister heard of the incident and I even told her of the brushing incident, she looked at me, always the hero, saving both your sister and mother. I had numerous times gotten my sister out of trouble of pesky guys trying to bug her. She kissed me on the cheeks saying this is for my hero.
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