"Hello."

"Who?"

"It's me, Mother Mary," Priya replied as she answered the phone.

As she freshened up and Priyank still hadn't come inside, she decided to take advantage of it and talk on the call, something she had wanted to do for a long time, because she knew her mother Mary would be stressed out.

"Priya?" The voice came from the other side of the phone, in a rush.

"Yes, Mother Mary, it's me, your Priya," she answered, her heart beating thousands of times in the meantime.

It had been so long since she last talked or saw her mother. It was like she had just seen her before running...