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Across town, a man sat at the kitchen counter drinking a fresh cup of tea. Suddenly, his phone rang out loud and the ringtone caused him to instantly grab it as it was his daughters ringtone. Walking out to the porch where he had better serviced, he pushed to answered.
"Hello?" he said.
"Hi daddy it's Lisa." He hadn't heard her voice in over 4 years and could tell by her tone she was sad.
"Hi honey, what's wrong?" asked Lisa's dad
"Can you pick me up after school please?"
"Yeah sure, two o'clock right?"
"Yes, that's correct."
"Alright sweetie, I'll see you at two, love you.
"Love you too daddy." As the line went dead, he already knew it had to do with his ex-wife.
Two hours and a test on Macbeth, amongst the erupting student body, Lisa exited the school. Behind the line of slanted park buses, Lisa walked on her tipi toes looking for her father. Her eyes soon found a man waving by the flag pole and she instantly bolted for him. Jumping into his grasp, she hugged him tightly.
"There's my senior girl," said her dad returning her hug and he could feel her sob. "Now what did your mother do?" Lisa broke his hug and stared at him.
"You were right. She is a slut," he looked at her oddly. "She fucked my ex-boyfriend in my room." He racked his jaw not wanting to show any kind of anger.
"I'm sorry sweetie, there's no reason you should have gone through that. I understand what you're going through." He rubbed her shoulder.
"Can I move in with you? I don't think I can deal with her and her liquor."
"Yes sweetie you can, is your car at the house?"
"No it's here, but I left the headlights on, so the batteries dead."
"Okay, I'll contact the repair shop and get it towed back to my place.
Once home, Lisa bee lined it to her bedroom and was initially shocked at the fact it was in the same condition she had left it four years ago. Walking over to her bed, she took a seat on it as her father walked in with two cups of tea. Taking a sip of the cup he handed her, she smiled at its warmness. He had taken a seat next to her and gave her a side hug.
"You were always good at making hot tea." She took another sip of it.
"Indeed, so how has the last four years been?"
"Treacherous really, if only I had believed you when you told me what mom was. Ever since your divorce she's been a wreck. Drinking every night till she passed out and despite being the loving mother she was here and there, it was heart wrenching." She looked down into the cup of tea.
"It's alright sweetie, you were young and to have told you the real reason as to why we divorced wasn't an easy confession. I just wish I could have been there for you all this time," he took a look down at the bed as he felt an unknown vibration.
"I think you're vibrating." She looked at him.
"Oh it's my cell phone, if it's alright I'm going to rest up, it's been a rough day." Her dad nodded and kissed her on the forehead as she laid down on her bed. He silently closed the door as her eyes closed instantly.
After a several hours of sleep, Lisa woke up a little weary. Sliding her legs around she sat up and stared out the window and could tell it was night time. The sound of vibration had captured her attention and she stared over at the side bedside table. Her phone sat there and she wondered how it had gotten there, but she picked it up, shrugging. She had received a few texts and she scanned through them. A few were her moms, but she didn't bother reading them and deleted them. The others were the Texter's and they read;
"Hey you look a little sad, what's up? Was that guy you left with your dad? Now you choose to ignore me :(" she smiled at the sad face.
"Sorry, I had a rude awakening when I got home and instead of getting worked up all over again by explaining, I won't divulge the rude part. That was my dad, yes and no I decided to take a nap which by the looks of how dark it is outside, was a good four hour nap," she replied and noted another text from her father.
"Hey sweetie you were asleep, but I had to run out and get some stuff, see you when I get home."
Putting her phone in her pocket, she got off her bed and stretched feeling her body come to life from her slumber. Walking over to the door, she opened it and it was pitch dark in the house. She groaned as she had to pull out a faint memory of where exactly everything was as she walked blindly down the hallway. Her hands searched the walls for a light switch and to no surprise, not one was found. Her hands slid down to the hand rail of the stairs. There was a faint light at the bottom so she was able to get a slightly better view as she carefully climbed down the stairs. A shadow seemed to move, causing her to gasp, but it moved back to its original spot revealing it was just a tree branch shadow from outside.
Reaching the bottom of the stair case, she stretched her foot out long being sure there was no object in her way before moving forward. Sliding the rest of her body to where her foot was her hand came planted on the wall, still no light switch as she searched it. Around the corner a flickering light caught her attention. Progressing slowly towards it, she held her hands out waving them aimlessly in search of any furniture. The flickering light evolved to reveal a cake. Getting closer she read the inscription on the cake. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY! LISA!"She cocked an eyebrow before the lights suddenly came on and group of people shouted surprise.
Lisa jumped as she looked at the small group of people and found her dad smiling in the front of her. She glared at him and couldn't hold a straight face for too long before joining in the others in laughter and smiled. She maneuvered around the table and hugged her father.
"Thanks daddy," cried Lisa of Joy.
