Story time! In the middle of the night in the snow, I heard a knocking on my window. I cautiously opened the curtains to see my mother standing at the window asking to be let in. I laughed in her face and closed the curtains as I'm not a fucking idiot who is gonna let a monster into the house just because she was pretending to be my momma! I'm not a fucking idiot!
Turns out it was actually my mother, but I don't regret anything.
Terrified, she clenched hard at the phone, feeling sudden cold from the back where her 'mom' stands, eyes darting around the room and landed at the old picture of 5 years old her in a princess costume with her mom on the dresser top. When reality hits, her mom died 10 years ago, on the night right after the picture was taken.
Turns out it was actually my mother, but I don't regret anything.