CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE: BACK HOME

~SONIA~ Within a few seconds of perfect silence, I stared at Mom with widened eyes before sighing. “Mum, that can't be possible, and you know it!" I snapped, and she raised her brows to lock eyes with me, staring at me with an expression I wasn't sure about. “Are you nuts, or have you just decided to talk like a brainless person?" she asked, and I breathed, folding my arms and turning in another direction. "None, Mother, I'm not interested in leaving the country," I said stubbornly. She stood up from where she was seated before I could realize it and slapped me so hard on the cheeks that I staggered and fell backward. “Mum!” I shouted in surprise, rubbing my stinging cheeks. She has never hit me that way before! “Call me one more time, and I'll slap you again!” she yelled. I sighed, knowing what she was capable of doing. “What do you plan on doing? Staying here in Standstern and getting arrested? Do you even think at all?.. for Pete's sake, we'll be apprehended for attempting mu