"Mommy are you okay? Is something the matter?" Asked Qin Lu as he stared bewildered at his mom who was foolishly staring at him in a daze as tears continuously ran down her two pale white cheeks.
Being brought out of her trance by her son, Emilia Lu immediately rushes forward to her son and embraces him as hard as she can. As if she wanted to imprint him into her body, that way he would not leave her again.
Qin Lu was shocked by his mom's strange actions. Since he could remember his mom had always been a very cheerful person and he had never seen her cry. Well at least in front of him she's never.
Little Qin awkwardly patted his mom on her back trying to do whatever he can to soothe his mom's unstable emotions, while trying to figure out what was happening.
"Mom I'm gonna be late for school" After standing there for two minutes, little Qin started to find it difficult to stand any longer there so he decided to distract his mom with something he knew she wouldn't be able to ignore.
"School? Right SCHOOL! You still go to school now" exclaims Emilia Lu as she finally snaps out of her emotional state.
"Come on we've gotta get you ready for school. Right, you go get ready and I'll go make you breakfast." Said Emilia who was already out of the room and around the corner."Ah okay? Well that was weird"
'Oh my gosh, that was embarrassing. I wonder what that brat is thinking right now. I'm sure his probably laughing at me ' Emilia had a legitimate reason for her worries here. Qin Lu has always been a very intelligent child, too intelligent at times that one would wonder whether that brat was an adult in a kid's body. He always had a frozen expression on his face as if the whole world owed him money.
There was a point in time when Emilia had genuinely been concerned about this for a while, that she had taken him to see quite a few specialists to inquire about the little boys' condition. Of course, she had been told several times that nothing was wrong and that that's just how her son was but it still worried her that her son barely smiled.
Arriving at the familiar kitchen, Emilia takes a second to take in the scene before she got busy making a love-filled breakfast for her little iceberg. Some eggs, a little bacon, sausage, and toast with a glass of milk.
Baby Qin loved his milk!
Emilia remembered how he had righteously said with a straight face how he loved milk only because it provided him with a lot of necessary nutrients and not because he was a kid who enjoyed milk just like the rest of the kids his age.
Qin Lu despised kid's his age and refused to play with them or even associate with them because he found them too childish. The only reason he even interacted with them in the first place was that he was stuck in the same classroom with them for the greater part of his year. And because he was a good student who wouldn't cause trouble for teachers he would reluctantly acknowledge them.
"Breakfasts ready!" Emilia calls out from the dining room. Just after a minute comes the sound of little footsteps on the wooden stairs as Qin Lu came down to eat. Heading straight to the kitchen to wash his hands before coming to sit down at his place across from his mom at the table.
"Baby Qin you don't have to take the bus back with the other kids today, I'll pick you up." Don't you have work today?" "Nope today's my day off"
"Ok" states Qin Lu as he finishes up the rest of his breakfast.
Honk!! came the sound of the bus, right on time. "Well, I've got to go. Bye Mom " Little Qin exchanged kisses with his mom on both cheeks before he scurried off to school.
"Bye Baby! see you in a while!"
Bang! came the sound of the door closing after little Qin's exit. Officially leaving Emilia alone to digest all that's happened today and how to carry on from here