Not even when Ariel's closest friends- Kira and Maggie wanted to talk did she agree to discuss Mom.

Kira encouraged her to speak about her.

"It will help you in your grief," she said.

But Ariel said nothing. It was as if speaking about her dying was admitting that her mother had truly died. That she was truly gone. She could not accept that she'd never see her again.

So she said nothing.

It was only one rainy morning that she finally spoke of Mom.

She was in her kitchen trying to make some breakfast for myself- an omelet.

She was cooking the egg with too much force, and it...