"As strong as a tree, but as fragile as its fruits."
Edgar goes out of the door and exits the empty and quiet room. He moves out to the gate of the school and returned to the hallway filled with array of doors. Three doors now faded and boarded up. The reception area was messier than before, the glass door was beginning to break. He proceeds to the fourth door. The door has a design that was like him, the door of his parent's house.
He enters and indeed the old furniture, his childhood pictures the stairs full of shoes and the old boxy television in the middle of the wooden divider filled with tokens, snow globes and books in the shelves made him certain that this was his parent's house. The kitchen with its marbled floor and the big wooden table in the middle with six seats surrounding it. The aluminum pans fill the cabinets.
He went out to the terrace where his mom was silently reading her favorite book, Infernos, while listening to a calming whisper of the air. Edgar took a seat beside her.
Sipping a black coffee, she said, "Still searching for answers, huh? When you were just an innocent child, you have many questions about many things but one of the questions that broke my heart was when you asked why should he leave?", His mother paused and looked at the wide green plains in front of them. "It's hard to answer that question but it is harder to see the fact that he left a promise to come back but did not. I'm very sorry that he could not come back. I wish I did not consent."
He replies, "Don't be, mama! I should be the one saying sorry for all the misunderstanding we have, for the words I have said to you and the things I did not do for you and for papa. I'm sorry that I did not do everything even the small things like saying "Thank you" and "I love you."
Tears fell from his eyes holding his mother's hand. His mother, Cynthia, hugged her son patted his back and whispered in a misty voice, "Be strong for the truth you seek is more painful than the lies you hear, son. Survive and be happy."
The mist gave a wooden box to him and disappears in a glimpse of an eye. Opening the box reveals a gold bracelet with a diamond star in the middle and a paper note that says, "I'm sorry. I love you! –Papa"