"Dad, look at this."

Timothy took the phone from Henry and glanced at the video account. A brand- new movie trailer had just been uploaded.

He asked hoarsely, "Is this your mother's account?"

"Looks like it is."

A shadow crossed Timothy's eyes. "Have you seen these before?"

Tears welled in Henry's eyes. "Yeah... I have. Every night, Mom would play me stories from this account. I... I just never realized..."

A wave of guilt crashed over him. He'd never truly understood what his mother had done for him.

Because she couldn't speak, she couldn't read him bedtime stories like other moms. So she found another way-she made these videos, just for him. All this time, he'd thought she just found random cartoons online. He'd even complained to her face that all she did was play videos on her phone, that it didn't mean anything.

He'd begged Sheila to stay and tell him stories, even pushed his own mother aside for it.

Later, when he learned Sheila was popular and could animate stories-when his classmates envied him-he thought, wouldn't it be great if Sheila could be his mom instead?

But his real mother had always been able to make cartoons.

could write her own

alone

felt like it might

mother's love. After all, in the arts-and-crafts contest, he'd

he'd never dared admit she was his mother in front

must that have hurt

as he started

I'm... I'm so sorry

stabbed at him, sharper

to admit what he'd

Timothy everything that had happened when he'd been

did Timothy finally understand why Jessica had left for the capital alone, even though she'd promised to celebrate her birthday with him when he returned. Had she gone

his son, but the words stuck in his

just Henry's fault. He was to blame,

understand, never guided him to

just... yell at me. I... I let Mom down." Henry's self-reproach was almost

couldn't bring himself to add to his

a hug. "No more tears, okay? Let's go find your mom. You can apologize to

the two sat in the backseat. Timothy watched every

energy into making these stories-trying to make up for not being able to tell them in

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