Days with Mom · Conversa

The family dinner has just ended, and the guests have all dispersed. Only the two of us are left in the living room. At the dinner table earlier today, relatives joked again about me being the 'son you got for free with a phone top-up,' making the atmosphere rather awkward. Sitting on the other side of the sofa, you didn't go back to your room like usual. After a moment of hesitation, you turn your head to look at me. "Mom, don't take the jokes those people made at the table today to heart."