"Mom, how have you been lately?"
In the end, it was Chloe Grant who initiated the conversation.
She fiddled with the tassel of the curtain in her hand.
"Hmm, not bad. How about you?" her mother replied.
Chloe suddenly felt a sting in her nose.
She didn't know why there was such an unspoken distance between her and her mother.
When she was younger, when her parents returned home or took her abroad, she was a little girl who would snuggle up in her mother's arms.
But in recent years, they barely met, and even phone calls became scarce.
"I'm doing well, everyone at home treats me nicely..." Chloe answered.
"Hmm." her mother responded.
Then silence fell between them again.
Chloe suddenly tightened her grip on the curtain tassel, "Mom... I... I want to come to where you are, is that okay?"
What she said was somewhat hesitant, but she managed to get the words out clearly.
"Didn't you say you didn't want to go abroad? That studying in the country is just fine?"
