Sporty66: Love is everywhere in life, no matter where you go, that person you love would always be in your heart.??? That's what my mom said before she left my dad and me, she just disappeared; I was three at the time. One day she's there, the next she's gone. My dad told me that she left because she cannot stay in one place for to long, and that she wouldn't have married him and stayed if she wasn't pregnant with me. I guess he was right, I mean I'v seen the pictures that they took when they were younger. My mom did not look very happy, but if you looked into my dads eyes, you could see that he was happy, with the present of me. Maybe that is why were close because even if my mom left him after three years he never took me for granted. Every morning who ever got up first, would cook breakfast and take out the trash. Then he would drop me to school, and at 5:30pm, he will be waiting out side in the parking lot for me after practice. However, today he did not show, it was my Uncle Derrick who picked me up. Honestly, I thought everything was all right but it wasn't. When we got to his house, I saw my grandma sitting down on the sofa crying with my Aunt Karol. When they saw me, my Aunt Karol got up and started to apologize. When my grandma called me to sit down next to her, I couldn't help but cry too, and then she started to apologize. Stop, stop! I said with an angry voice trying not to believe what my grandma just said about my dad. You're just making this all up!! Sweetheart, why would I be making this up about your father? You know for sure that he's my son and that I loved him as much as you did... My grandma says with a weak voice. My dad isn't dead I'll prove it!!I pulled out the phone he gave me for emergencies, and remembered what he said when he first gave me the phone,'no matter what the emergency,call this phone and daddy will pick up,do you understand? I couldn't and wouldn't believe them until the phone kept on ringing. No!I say while trying to catch my breath and shaking my head.This can't be true;you all are lying he can't be dead I just know it!! with that said I ran past my Uncle Derrick, my Aunt Karol and out the front door. I just had to go home,see it to believe it, because deep down inside I knew that my dad was still alive. He would never leave without saying goodbye to his best friend. When I got to my house I stormed through the front door, "DAD! Are you here? Hello daddy?" Please answer,please answer were the words that was going through my head while I was calling out to him. I searched all the rooms bottom to top and even our father and daughter activity room. When I entered, I felt a small braes and then I heard a big thud from the kitchen, I jumped. Wondering what it was I went to check. I was hopping it was my father, when I saw the figure's face I had a big smile on my face.. "DADDY!" I shouted and ran over to hug him.Right when my arms were raped around his waist and my head was on his chest I felt him sigh.. "Daddy, is something wrong?I asked with confusion, I thought that he would be relieved to finally see me,but right when he talked I then realized that it was not my father it was my Uncle Derrick. "Child.." My Uncle says while holding me by the shoulders and looking at me straight in the eyes. "What your grandma told you about your father was true not nonsense. Please just believe us;we know that your father and you are rally close and that he would not leave you without saying goodbye. But his time was here, and maybe he thought that him leaving without saying goodbye to you was best. "What?" I said with determination."You think that my father thought that it would be best if he leaves me without saying goodbye? Your wrong, my father would never leave without saying goodbye, he even said it himself that if he cannot say goodbye verbally then he would writ in black and white. Don't tell me that he wouldn't have the time to do either one of it!" With that said my Uncle just gave up and put his head down then breathed in deeply. "I know that it's hard to take the bad news in." he looks at me with a sincere face. "But Julia please,that's enough for tonight. Just sleep over at my house and tomorrow will come back and get your most valued possessions. I pulled my Uncle in for a hug, he always new how to make me feel better or somehow just make me understand how the world goes. 3 YEARS LATER Chapter One "I can't believe it's been three years since my dad's death and my first year not spending it with you. I just wish you were here, it's so boring.." I say to my cousin Loren on the other line. "Me either, your dad was like my super uncle. He always knew how to cheer up the two of us when a game went wrong or we got bad grades. I'll just make it short, he was always there for the two of us." she says with a sigh. "You got that right! Howeover, without him I think we wouldn't be best cousins at all. I remember when we used to fight over simple things when he would take me over to your house for the holidays or just for a celebration." I said with a big smile on my face. "Ha, I remember!" Loren breaths in deeply. "Even the fights over the different balls we would be told to shear. Oh, the memories;thanks to your dad we now shear the same dreams, but ever since you left town I've been lonely. And the worst part of it, it's summer; the girls that I play soccer with aren't like the girls last year. Their so cheeky, you know like scared of the ball and just complain a lot. When are you coming home?" Loren asks with frustration just by thinking of her new summer team. "Well?" I say unsure,"I really don't know, but I'm hopping two weeks before summer ends. I'll tell you the truth; they don't want me near that town anymore. So I was wondering if you have an extra bed to lend to me?" I say with a hint that I'm planning to run away. "Julia, your not thinking what I'm thinking are you? Don't tell me that you are, because that can be really dangerous and you know it for sure." "I'm tiered of them trying to keep me in a place I never grew up in!" I paused then began,"I mean I hardly know anybody and bad enough this town does't have any athletic summer camps!" "Huh?" Loren says with disbelief,"What do you mean they have no athletic summer camps? What kind of town is that?" Loren asked like it was a crime not having any athletic summer camp in a town. I giggled,"I looked in the town newspaper and they only had one club." I said. "What kind of club?" I could hear that she was interested in hearing the whole story, like always. You don't want to know, trust me!" I rolled my eyes. "Please,tell me!" I smiled, missing the times we've spent together. "A book club! And they only meet on Saturdays, Sundays, and--" "Wait!" Loren interrupts."Let me guess, Wednesdays!She giggles. "Correct! I went to one of it and I thought there would be some youths, I was wrong. "How old were they?" Loren asks trying to hold her laugh in. "They were as old as my Uncle Jack! Yup, 40 and above!' I could hear Loren on the other line cracking up. "That sounds like it could be fun!" she laughed. "Did you walk in or just looked through the small rectangle glass window?" she manages to say without sounding so muffled. "What do you think I said?" "Sorry wrong room!" We laughed harder. "Man I really miss you and all the middle school pranks we pulled on our old friends, until they became our enemies." I said with the slightest sigh. "I just hope my Aunt Karol and my Uncle Derrick send me home before summer ends." we didn't say anything for a few seconds. "Julia, I just thought about a genius plan!" Loren says braking the silence. With that said Loren told me what her plan was,and after three minutes we hung up so she can put it to work. I really doubted that her father and mother would agree, because she had an athletic scholership right at finger tips and for Loren to let that go,that means a lifetime of work to get it back. Chapter two "Mom!" I shout from up stairs "What is it Loren?" she asks. "Can we talk?" I ask while entering the kitchen where she was.My mom looks at me with an 'of course we can always talk' kind of face, then answers. "Of course,what is it?" I breath in deeply,"You know how Julia's family took her from here against her will?" she looks at me. "Oh come on Loren, Julia's family didn't take her from here against her will. Your just over exaggerating,my dear." she then goes back to cooking dinner. I really thought that the conversation was over,but my mom insisted that it wasn't. "What else did you want to aks me?" I smiled,"Well I was hopping that you and dad can come to an agreement on letting me go and saty with Julia until we graduate.." "What!?" my mom looks at me shocked. "Loren my dear,you know for sure that me and your father would never agree with that!" "Why not? You both agreed on letting Danny go when his bestfriends parents died and he had to live with his Aunt Nikky!?" I said shouting but not noticing. "Loren, lower your voice. Your getting to loud. Now I know that your father and me agreed to your brother Danny to live with his bestfriend, but if you hadn't noticed he was already a sinior, and to make it more spicific he didn't have a big time scholership on his hands.Not like you, so drop it please. Now come and help me with dinner, your father would be home prity soon and he expects that it would be ready by then." I knew that when my mom said to drop the suject,she ment it. So I just put my head down and helped her,hoping that my dad would come to terms with her when he comes home. After dinner I helped my mom with the dishes then walked to me room,but before I got to my door my dad called me into his office. "Loren?" he calls out. "Yes dad? May I help you?" I ask walking to his desk. "I heared that you wanted to live with Julia and her family in Georgia?" he looked at me, when he did a smile grew on my face. I shook my head then replied,"Yes! momma told you?" he then nodded and handed me an envolope. I took it,"What is this?" my dad jeschered to open it. When I opened the envolope my eyes grew big. I coulnd't beleave what was in it. "Does this mean?" I puased. "Yes it means just that." he then looked at me with his business face,"When you finished dinner early your mother brought the subject up. It then hit me, that Julia and you are really close." he breathed in deeply then began,"So when I looked back to when she left, you couldn't stop crying,I couldn't stand it. Now that you want to go and stay with Julia,it makes more sence if you do. And your mother and I aren't stopping you no matter what she thinks. It's only fare that we let you do it, because we let your brother do it to. We can forget about your missing out on the Scholerships here at Lexington High School. As an athleat it's your decision to stop playing sports or to keep on,not me or your mom's. We may be the one's who pay for everything but were not the one's who are playing the sport." he smiled big,"And it's about time that you start to take responsibility for your actions." "YES!" I said jumpping up out of my seat and pumpping my fist.I ran to the other side of my dad's desk and gave him a huge hug."Thank you Daddy,thank you so much!" He looked at me then picked up the phone and started to dile his sister Karols house number.Then he put it on speaker when she picked up. They started to talk and I just listened,but when everything started to get intence my dad took it off of speaker.All of a sudden the excitment was gone. |
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