The phone rang for the third time. < img src = "https://zycie.news/crrops/42eac1/620x0/1/0/2025/02/15/rcxj9fztolzpzez3c45zekymjw1g05yg1qnao.jpg" alt = "old lady @pexels" styles = "background-color: rgba (138,137,132,1)" > < p > I looked at the screen. Mom.
< p > I knew what he wanted.
< p > It was always the same.
< p > o money.< p > — Hi, mom.
< p > — Hi baby. How are you ?< p > I knew this tone. I smiled bitterly.
< p > First a few minutes of apparent care, and then a request that I could not refuse to whatever.< p > — You know & Hellip; I have such a situation — she started and I clenched my teeth.
< p > — How much ?< p > A moment of silence.
< P >& Amp; MDASH; Two thousand.
< p > I sighed.< p > — Mom, you have a pension.
< p > — Well, but you know how it is. Bills, life & Hellip; Besides, it's probably not a problem for you, true ?< p > did not wait for my answer.
< p > because for her it was obvious.
< p > that I will pay. < p > that I will not oppose. < p > because it was always like that.< p > I don't know when it started.
< p > When the money became the ame of our size & oacute; w.
< p > when I stopped being for her c & oacute; and became an ATM.
< p > I paid because I felt I should.
< p > because it's a mother. < p > because she raised me, sacrificed me, she wasn't easy. < p > but how many times you can pay off the debt, which & oacute; ry never ends ?< p > — Two thousand are a lot, mom — I said carefully.
< p > — Oh & Hellip; & Amp; MDASH; I heard a note of paintings in her voice. & Amp; MDASH; I did not know that for my own mother you would count every penny.< p > I closed my eyes.
< p > always the same. < p > Always emotional blackmail. < p > always guilt, which & oacute; was to force me to submission.< p > — Mom, I also have my expenses.
< p > — Yes. Your life is more important than mine, truth ?< p > this time something broke in me.
< p > — And has my life ever been important to you ?
< p > there was silence.
< p > I didn't hear the answer.
< p > because the answer was obvious.
< p > for her I was just someone who was supposed to give her everything.< p > because she gave me life.
< p > and now I had to pay for it.