LGBT – Through The Eyes Of The Mother

At the beginning the mother is cooking, cleaning and doing the basic house hold things that need to be done. She is tidying after the boy again and she isn’t impressed as he is always laying his stuff all over the living room floor. She thinks to herself ‘She is going to have to have a talk with him later’. As she finishes up she picks up a teddy bear he left down stairs whiles he was watching a movie. She stares into the eyes of the bear and he thinks about the young boy growing up into a man and one day the changes he goes through will be big, life changing changes maybe something he doesn’t already know. As she stares into the eyes for a couple of minutes the boy runs down stairs, shoes on, hair done and with a face that isn’t all there. He isn’t smiling but he isn’t upset either like his confused face being covered up by his mind, as it seems he is concentrating on a thought. The mother’s first thought is to ask if everything is alright but even before she could open her mouth he looks at her firm but fragile and walks out of the house, leaving the mother alone and to carry on her cleaning. Later on, the mother is washing up, she has just cooked the most delicious curry in her mind and how she is so pleased with herself that she has a small smile on her face as she Hums her favourite tune that is playing from the nearby radio. As she looks out of the kitchen window she can see the car on the drive, the cat pouncing and jumping around trying to catch that bird hovering above its head and the sun beaming down on this ever so gorgeous day. Then the mother thinks back to the boy’s face that morning and how the face is no other face that she has seen before. She stops humming and puts down the plates and takes off her washing up gloves and finds the teddy still on the sofa where she left it. Staring into the eyes of the teddy again, she knew what was going through the boy’s mind. Suddenly the door flies open with a bang and the boy runs upstairs without a glance or ‘hello’. As the mother listens to the bedroom door slamming shut. she slowly makes her way upstairs teddy in one hand, banister in the other and the thought of realisation. As the mother walks into the boy slamming his phone into the draw she calmly asks if ‘everything is alright?’ as he explains that he has been having feelings about the other gender, the mother sits on his bed listening and nodding to every word she thinks to herself ‘why must he care what others think?’ After he had finished talking the mother told him to not to listen to anyone else you are your own person and that no matter what happens the family will love you no matter what. As she starts to leave she places the bear on the end of his bed and turns to him to say ‘I love you’ and walks out of the room. She goes back down stairs to sit on the sofa, the young boy is now making changes and decitions himself and all the mother can do is watch and love him no matter what.