[Flashback]
"Here, keep this and eat whatever you like." Young Norma pressed a few worn coins into Daniel's small palm and smiled, curling his fingers gently around them.
"But Aunty, how will you go to the interview if you give me so much money?" the little boy asked, staring up at her with wide, innocent eyes.
After losing his parents, life had turned harsh and unfamiliar for both of them. Daniel faced constant bullying at school—whispers about his father, cruel jokes he didn't fully understand but felt all the same. Norma, fresh out of graduation, had been drifting from one rejection to another. By day, she worked as a waitress at a small restaurant, enduring long hours on her feet just to make ends meet.
