CONFLICTED

[<] [>]  by Deneen Ansley

9 December 2009

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Drabble Challenge #47

Prompt: conflicted

Hanging up the phone, Mom appears from her bedroom, bearing a serious, agitated look.

“She says that everybody is to get out. She wants nobody here when she gets home.”

My children look to me, panic-stricken.

“Everybody,” I ask, numb from the shock. “I‘m not leaving.”

“Mama!” my oldest, clutches her four-month old, and begins throwing things into a suitcase.

“It’s hard to figure out what’s important to take.” She looks up at me.

From their cars, loaded down with hastily-gathered belongings, anxious faces peer, begging. “Mama! Please, come with us!”

My heart splits.

I pause, tears streaming, turn away.

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