What Mothers Keep Silent

Family Home, Sumida City, Tokyo

Today has been quite busy, the Japanese defense ministry has been in a panic after the New York attack, it seems that after thinking about it a lot seeing what happened in New York, they are in a panic thinking that something at that level can happen in such little time. They seem more willing to join the Alliance, but they still won't accept our current agreement. Honestly, what the hell do these people want, they're going to drive me crazy, I didn't think it would take so long trying to negotiate the damn deal.  I had been starting to work in the home office because there were times when I had to make calls late at night to be able to talk to someone on the other side of the world.  I honestly didn't think I would ever use this room because I don't think I'd allow visits from important people since entering this house is the same as going to Wonderland.  But not everything is bad today, because my son Leon had called today to give me the news that he had risen again in the company. 

"I'm very happy for you, congratulations"
"You really worked hard to get it" I told him with all the sincerity and pride that a mother could give her son

"Yes, finally it seems that I will start early next week"
"The CEO really expects a lot from me, so I can't let him down."

"That is good"
"Hey, and how is your family? All good there?"
"How is little Holly?"
"I can't believe you haven't sent me pictures of my own granddaughter yet"
"Please send them to me when you have time"
"I want to put them in the fireplace of the house along with everything else"

"Everyone is pretty good thank God"
"Holly already said her first words"
"Daisy already feels completely recovered and she is eager to get back to work again"
"Most likely she will go back to her old job at the law firm"

"Leon, wait a minute!"
"But your daughter is not even a year old yet, it is not yet time to leave her alone!"

"We will hire a professional caregiver or leave her in a nursery"
"They are going to help her to learn everything as fast as possible and she can develop her intelligence quite soon"
"With Daisy's salary back again we can pay for her to get into a good school and with it a good university."
"She will be able to get a good professional career if she settles in an area where there are very few people available."

"Leon, my son, you do know that that's about 15 years away, right?"
"Many things can happen, life can take many turns and you never know what lies ahead"
"I don't think a child is very amused by having such absent parents in his life, especially at such early ages"
"Why don't you think better of it, I think she would like to have a life with her parents and in seven years they will be able to see if she will like school and start growing from there"
"But the early years are when they need her parents the most"

"She's going to a good place, it's a center to develop gifted children early"
"If she goes there she can learn many things, so we want her to enter from the age of 4"
"So we want to make sure that she can have what it takes to be one of the top graders"
"We already have a list of the best private tutors who are willing to teach her"

"It is necessary!"
"Just because you did that to us doesn't mean the right way to raise a child!"
"Don't start preaching about how a father raises his daughter!"
"In this world, if you are not a successful person you are nobody!"
"The easiest way to succeed is to be smarter than anyone else and I'll do that with her"
"Oh, do you want me to treat her like you did with Cesar?"
"Do you want her to end up just like him?"
"With no money, poorly paid jobs and dying in an alley just for a measly salary as a soldier because he didn't know how to do anything better with her life"
"I want her to be successful in her life, just like her parents or her grandmother did"

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"By the way speaking about your brother...."
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".... you know ... better ... forget it ..."
"It was nothing"

"What?"
"Are you going to tell me that you already received his farewell letter?"
"Good time, he has been underground for a long time and still comes to torment you?"
"You just burns it, leaves everything of him in the past, there is nothing that can be done for him"
"The bastard just wants to keep messing around even though he's dead"
"Don't hurt yourself anymore and just forget it, it's better for everyone"
"At least you try to save Maria you still have time"
"No one wants anything bad to happen to her after everyone put so much money into her"

"Leon!"
"You can't talk like that about your brothers!"
"You have no idea what they've been through!"
"Not everyone can be successful even with everything in their favor!"

"But when Ivania was there, success mattered, right?"
"Surely if your "favorite daughter" were the one doing it, you would surely support her completely with her decisions"
"She, after all, is important thanks to her work, more than me, I guess"

"What I did at that time was completely wrong and I accept it"
"It was my fault and I never should have done it, during that time I was blinded by wanting you to be the same as her"
"It was a mistake"
"But remember that everyone will make mistakes and you are not an exception"

"That apology has come 15 years late"
"The damage is already done"
"The only thing I regret is that my brother is not alive to hear it too"
"Maybe if they had done it before things would have been different"
"Maybe even my brother would have been saved"

*Hang up*

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I really screwed up, right
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