Davina_K_Cruz

"Why don't you speak to me? What changed Eleanora?"

"I am s-s-sorry mamma." A faint whisper reached in Acacia's ears.

"She spoke David! I still can't believe this. It's been 3 years, she never uttered a word out but today she spoke!" Acacia rambled. Her eyes showed sadness but there was a smile on her face.

"I am sorry mamma!' That's what she called me. She called me mamma again.

"I just hope that she get better soon. From the past few years, she just changed. It felt like she was trapped in some shell and now I think she is trying to get out of it. This is a big improvement."

Eleanora kept shedding few tears out as she listened to her parents conversation. Guilt was eating her alive. Her parents never deserved this pain. She was making them to take a share of her own pain.

"Please come back, Nora. We need you." He whispered in her ear and placed a gentle kiss on her forehead.
"No matter what you feel, Daddy will forever love you, my little angel."

Then those voices in her head that won't let her sleep in nights. Nora knew that she needed help but she was afraid. She was afraid to ask for help.

"Eleanora!" Her father's yell startled her. She looked up in her father's direction, he was coming towards her. His red, teary eyes first grabbed her attention and it shook her.

The stares of the whole neighborhood, terrified her.