California, Part II

Well, I went back to the shore and saw that my mother had discovered the missing teeth. She was scraping at her neck for a long time, reaching for a necklace that wasn’t there and creating a new blood necklace. Yet upon showing her the jewels, she finally agreed to leave this godforsaken house and move to California. She wanted only two things, and while I thought that they would be something material, it turned out to be me and Ruby. She has finally expressed her love for us, and I am finally capable of believing that she does love us. It seemed as if she was going to die, possibly by her own hand, and in a way she did die, but she has been reborn and can now finally become our mother. We are a family again.