Prompt: How am I supposed to forget like it never happened?

Aija just stared in disbelief as Yvone sat there wringing her hands. She couldn’t meet Aija’s eyes and for a moment Aija wasn’t even sure this was the woman that had raised her. But what her mother said to her next stunned her to the core.

“I’m just wondering if we can forgive and forget. Start over?”

Aija blinked. “You’re not serious?” She pierced her mother with a stare that told her to answer carefully. When Yvone gave her a just as serious stare back, Aija scoffed. The hits just kept on coming.

“Let me get this straight. You chose drugs over me when I was a kid. Then you decided not to get clean when I was a kid, got taken away from me when I was a kid, leaving me wondering where you were and when you were coming back to get me…every day afterward,”

Yvone winced at her words but Aija kept going. “Then not only did you not find me, you had a whole new life without me, complete with a new child and grandchild and somehow now that you’ve finally found me, without effort I might say, you want me to just forget the feeling of abandonment you left me with.

“How? How am I supposed to forget like this never happened? If this is how you think we’re going to be. You are sadly mistaken, Mama.”

“Aija…” Yvone started, but Aija stopped her, holding a hand up. “Look, you need to think about something better to tell me because right now this little get off easy card isn’t going to work. Now, I’m going to go and check on Natsuki. When you’re ready, give me a call. You know the way out.”

“I…Okay.” Yvone nodded, tears brimming her eyes.

Aija felt her own eyes stinging as she got up to go upstairs. She thought this would be a lot easier. Shame.