He turned a new leaf for his mother's sake.(freewrite)
Mom, why are you crying? What happened in the market? What happened, Mom?" Samuel, who was reading in the family library, kept asking his mother after seeing that she entered the house with tears rolling down her cheeks.
"Hmmm hmm hmm," Samuel's mom sniffed as she wiped her tears. "Do you know what I was addressed as today in the market? The women thought I wouldn't hear it, but I heard everything." Samuel's mom said as she cried even more.
"What is it that they said that broke you like this? Are you telling me nobody beat you, nobody died, and you are crying this much, Mom?" Samuel asked, surprised by her reason for crying this much.
only power is your intelligence. As for me, I have both street sense and intelligence as well." Johnson responded, and this got Samuel triggered, and he was about to throw a punch when his mother interfered.
The mom turned around and saw what was happening, and then she ran and stood in between while still crying. Seeing his mother's tears rolling down her cheeks uncontrollably touched him, and he was forced to have a change of heart.
"I am sorry, Mom." Johnson said as he hugged her tight, and everyone, including the mother, was surprised, as he was not known to ever say sorry.
Samuel stopped trying to fight as he stood there looking at the drama unfolding.
