Author's Note: I forgot I had stuff written for this chapter... -_-

The next day, as I help Katie wash the dishes from supper, I suddenly experience a flashback; one from seven years ago:

My mother and father and I were walking in a park (I won't specify which park it was; it would just bring about more bad memories) and suddenly, out of nowhere, my mother brings me to a tree and says 'Stay here, Aiden, my darling; Mama will be right back'. I waited for 3 hours, but she never did come back for me. At that point, I decided to leave my spot. After about twenty minutes of walking, I met up with Melissa, who, at that time, was just known to me as 'nice lady'.

She asked me where my parents were, so I told her "I don't know. They just left me at a tree and didn't come back." She then asked if I'd like to live with her. I nodded; every little boy needs a mother, or at least a mother figure, and so she was mine.

I feel someone poke me; Katie. "Aiden; are you okay? You've been washing that same dish for the past ten minutes." I look down to see the gilding on her best serving-dish nearly worn away at the edges, a product of my distraction. "I... I'm sorry, Katie... I was just thinking... remembering."

"Thank you for helping, Aiden, but I think you should go rest. You don't need to stress over your parents, honey... leave the past in the past-"

"My parents abandoned me, Katie! My mother hated me, so she left her little boy, who had done nothing to harm her, in a park, alone!"

"Oh, Aiden... I-I didn't know..."

"Sorry for yelling, sweetheart."

"Shhh... Shhhh; hush, my love... I feel no anger."

Later, while in bed, I tell Katie my story.

"I was about ten years old, just a tyke. My parents and I had gone for our bi-weekly walk in the park, and, all of a sudden, my mother decided to leave me at a tree. She just left, no reason whatsoever."