Father & Daughter
After All
I never considered doubting him when he said he would return. The thought that he might be lying was so paranormal it didn't even flicker through my thoughts. My light green eyes held no doubt, worry, resentment or even indecision.
I wonder how much pain it caused him to stare at my ten year old round face, cheeks red from the winter wind. My breath clouding around my face for mere seconds then disappearing, my unruly dark red hair sticking to my cheek from the moisture in the evening air.
How could he stare down at my face full of trust and love and then tell a lie? If he felt no pain himself, would he not have anticipated the pain that I would feel when he did not return?
After all he was my father for ten years of my life. He most have felt some attachment to me the little girl who would run to him when he walked through the door. Or maybe I was a simple nuisance to him. All those times I saw love was actually obligation, nothing more then him going through the steps.
Maybe thats why he fabricated his lie; to go through the steps once more.
When he did not have too.
Maybe he loved me after all.
I wonder how much pain it caused him to stare at my ten year old round face, cheeks red from the winter wind. My breath clouding around my face for mere seconds then disappearing, my unruly dark red hair sticking to my cheek from the moisture in the evening air.
How could he stare down at my face full of trust and love and then tell a lie? If he felt no pain himself, would he not have anticipated the pain that I would feel when he did not return?
After all he was my father for ten years of my life. He most have felt some attachment to me the little girl who would run to him when he walked through the door. Or maybe I was a simple nuisance to him. All those times I saw love was actually obligation, nothing more then him going through the steps.
Maybe thats why he fabricated his lie; to go through the steps once more.
When he did not have too.
Maybe he loved me after all.
♠ ♠ ♠
Yeah so.....=D