30 Days - Accusation

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 “I didn’t, though! It was Natasha!”

 

“Luke, just stop. Stop it, please.” Mama puts a hand to her forehead, closing her eyes.

 

Luke stops, biting his lip, shaking with anger. He didn’t do it. He didn’t, and he doesn’t understand why everyone thinks that he did. He’s never hurt someone with his pranks, and that no one notices that. Not even Mama.

 

Except, he thinks, she’s tired. He can see it. She works so much, and ever since they left Dad, she works even more. And when he’s tired he misses the obvious sometimes.

 

He doesn’t like it, not at all, but, he thinks, he can forgive her for believing everyone else who doesn’t know them that well.

 

“I want you to apologize tomorrow,” she says.

 

Luke swallows. He doesn’t want to. He didn’t do it, and apologizing will be like telling them he did.

 

“Okay,” he says.

 

She smiles, tired at the edges, and runs a hand through his hair then presses a kiss to his forehead.

 

“That’s my boy. Now try and stay out of trouble, you know I can’t miss work.”

 

“Yes, Mama.”