^-^
The pain flashed through Andrei's eyes, and she thought, 'Ah, it hit home.' He tried to blink away the pain and covered it with another sarcastic remark, but they've been friends since forever.
They shared scars with each other that never seemed to heal. The scar of disappointing their respective mothers.
A decade may pass, even a millennial, but a mother's disappointed eyes as she slowly shakes her head in surrender will always hurt no matter how many years have passed.
A mother's wrath was easy to handle. An occasional beating will always be better than the soft look of dismay silently mocking how you were wrongly raised, and you were now beyond redemption.
A married child - is a mother's end goal in raising a human being.
Which she and Andrei broke in the most scandalous possible way. Their excuse? It was fun and a good way to get even to their overbearing mothers.
