I couldn't hear anything but the water. Sssshhhhh, it goes as it rinses the white plate even though it was already way more than enough... "Mama! Mama!" I jumped at the sound and turned around at such a speed that my youngest daughter jumped as well.

"Mama?" my daughter asked me worriedly.

I sighed in relief and close the tap before asking my daughter why she called me. "Why you lied to me that big sister is never coming home?"

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"What do you mean? She is not-"

"I hear big sister saying he's fine a lot of times in big sister's room."

My voice wouldn't come out. I quickly rushed up to the stairs and put my ears against my eldest daughter's door and I heard it: her voice repeatedly saying he's fine all over and over and over again...

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