kuri
she handed me a gift. it was wrapped up in a green and red gift wrapping like fucking christmas. i threw that shit on the floor.
"do you actually fucking think this will alleviate what you have done?"
"what? b-but honey i-"
i knocked on the door to my mother's apartment leaning the vase on my side so that it wouldn't fall. i knocked again after a while. her hearing had been going and she had a hard time answering the door as of late
i watched the girl stick the mouth of the plastic balloon on the metal pump and i watched it inflate to full size. she did it systematically. stick a balloon on, turn the knob for the compressed helium, tie it, stick another balloon on... and so on.
"what are you doing?" i asked her
"i'm pumping balloons, what does it look like i'm doing?" she says. not even looking up to meet my gaze
"what for?" i asked again
no response.