She waits to see if you have anything else to add, and when it's clear that you don't, she nods and sighs, turning to look back out over the water.
"You know you can always talk to me, right?" she says. "No matter how bad you think it might be, you can always tell me."
Your mom raised you by herself after your dad split in second grade, and she opened what became Arbor Isle's most popular diner not even a year after he left. There are few people you know who work as hard as she does, yet throughout the years she has dedicated much of her time to you.
What you tell your mom about what you're going through is one thing. How you really feel may be a completely different matter.