Chapter 4, Lonley
I run out of the room, not knowing
how to react to anything. Granny has never been this mad before.
Maybe I should show Pops? Granny might not want him to see. Is
there some kind of secret they are all hiding from me? Is he not
my biological dad? Has he been spending his life in jail? Does it
really anger everybody to think that my own dad doesn't even
know that his 1st son, Ben, is dead.
I don't know what to do, so I go to sit on Ben's bed. My
pain of missing him throbs in my heart. I re-picture how I saw
him.
He was laying on the ground when I got there. It was obvious
where he got hit, it was a large Jeep, and Ben, he wasn't
very tall. The Jeep smashed in his shoulder, then shoving his
helpless body to bleed out on the ground. That wasn't the
worst part. He hit his head on the ground, cracking his skull.
Leaving him to bleed to death. I showed up about 10 minutes
later, I saw the yellow blanket the cops layed over his body.
Dead already. I ran to him. All I could think was how we had
fought over the bathroom this morning, and the last thing I told
him was that I hated him.
Then this is when my world comes back to focus and I see mom, she
took the balled up letter that I threw on the ground when I
started to lay on Ben's bed, and she was reading it. She was
pale and looked as if she was about to puke. I remember that skin
tone. The very same of Ben's. Expecially when he died.
0 faves · 1 comments · Feb 12, 2012 10:55am
grownsimba · 1 decade ago
oh wow. tragic story.
hmmm... so mom's been an alky since dad left? if so, it's probably gotten worse with the death of her son.
Dang.
maybe their a secret, & why after all this time is dad contacting them. 8 years (I know he left 9 years ago, but I'm saying after the birth of his 2nd son) is a long time. psht.
MORE PLEASE.!
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