Tiny Tokio Hotel
Chapter 2 Tom's story
“What?”
“Your turn!”
“Oh right erm”
I began to speak,
“I think I was 3 when my mum died, I was sent to live with my step dad, I loved him so much but he was often out late and bringing home separate girls, a different one every night, he thought I didn't know about the drink and the drugs but I did but I didn't care he was my dad and I loved him, to me he was the best guy going, until a Saturday morning it started normal we were on our way to bills for our 14th birthday on his bike, I clinged on tightly to the leather of his jacket enjoying hearing the engine rev, We came to a corner and stopped as a car rushed past, the bike was clipped and dragged down, I screamed as I fell hard to the ground, I pulled of my helmet and tried to sit up pain like fire shooting through my arm, I saw him laying in the road and screamed
“DAD MOVE!!!!”
I was too late the black car ran over his head he lay there I crawled over and picked up his ringing cell phone
“Hello?”
“Tom is that you? Are you crying? Are you okay? Wheres Your dad?”
“Selina dads dead”
I began to cry, the tears staining my face I leaned forward cuddling in to him trying to get him to acknowledge that I wasn't going to leave him any time soon
“Tom where are you I'll come get you and phone the police!”
I looked around for a sign
“Sterler street”
“Okay honey I'll be there in a second”
I lay with dad whispering and sobbing
“Selina's coming show her that your okay get up come on......please dad”
He just lay there, at that moment I knew my life was broken in two, all I can remember is Selina lifting me and giving me to a police officer who then put me in an ambulance where I held my dads hand all the way there, until he was taken away from me, I had broken my arm so it was in plaster, Me and Selina sat outside dads room waiting for news, her arms around me like a real mother would do to her son, not a step sister to her younger step brother
A doctor came out
“Miss fleming?”
Selina stood up
“Yes”
“We done all we could but hes gone, I'm sorry”
I understood exactly what was going on, I sobbed and fell to the floor in pain, Selina held me again, Trying to calm me down nothing worked, Even though we were blood related, he was still my dad and my life , I couldnt belive he was gone it all seemed so unfair and unreal.
I went and said my last goodbye to him, gently kissing his cold cheek and holding his bloodied hand.
We got home and I sat knees to my chest staring out of my bedroom window, half expecting him to walk back in at any second and tell me that it was dinner time, he obviously wasnt going to, I pulled my self in to a tiny ball and sobbed in to my knees my heart throbbing with
pain and grief, The rain pattered and I sniffled an hugged his shirts,Selina poked her head round the door,
"Tom?, Are you crying honey?"
"Nein, just leave me alone"
"No I can't leave you like this"
She scooped me off of the window sill and in to her arms, sitting on the bed with me in her lap like a small kitten, She curled one of my dreads around her finger
"I know you miss dad, but now he's gone and we just have to face it its just us now little dude"
I cried in to her for what felt like days, when she eventually left me to cry, for three days I just lay there looking up at the ceiling and wishing praying and hoping.
Until the day of the funeral came, I looked on dripping with rain as the coffin was lowered, I cried again everyone giving me sympathetic pats and hugs. I screamed
" I DONT WANT YOUR SYMPATHY, I WANT MY DADDY BACK YOU CANT BURY HIM HE WONT BE ABLE TO GET BACK UP, PLEASE JUST LEAVE HIM ALONE, ITS NOT FAIR ,WHY WONT YOU LISTEN TO ME!!"
Selina was still crying and she held me close as he was lowered the rest of the way.
4 MONTHS LATER
The sun shone brightly from the sky, my school bag still on my back, I walked through the crisp grass until I came to the polished slab with his name on it.
I crouched down and put a bunch of flowers down I whispered
" Hey Daddy, How are you? things are a little rough up here sometimes I wish I could join you, we all miss you more than you could ever know, dad, Selina is taking good care of me I promise. I got you these flowers, 10 real 1 fake and Ill love you until every last one dies. I love you dad, Im gonna go home now miss you bye"
I walked home, tears in my eyes but feeling slightly refreshed, I stepped in the front door and cuddled Selina a small smile on my face"
Georg had tears in his eyes and I turned to Gustav
"your turn"
“Your turn!”
“Oh right erm”
I began to speak,
“I think I was 3 when my mum died, I was sent to live with my step dad, I loved him so much but he was often out late and bringing home separate girls, a different one every night, he thought I didn't know about the drink and the drugs but I did but I didn't care he was my dad and I loved him, to me he was the best guy going, until a Saturday morning it started normal we were on our way to bills for our 14th birthday on his bike, I clinged on tightly to the leather of his jacket enjoying hearing the engine rev, We came to a corner and stopped as a car rushed past, the bike was clipped and dragged down, I screamed as I fell hard to the ground, I pulled of my helmet and tried to sit up pain like fire shooting through my arm, I saw him laying in the road and screamed
“DAD MOVE!!!!”
I was too late the black car ran over his head he lay there I crawled over and picked up his ringing cell phone
“Hello?”
“Tom is that you? Are you crying? Are you okay? Wheres Your dad?”
“Selina dads dead”
I began to cry, the tears staining my face I leaned forward cuddling in to him trying to get him to acknowledge that I wasn't going to leave him any time soon
“Tom where are you I'll come get you and phone the police!”
I looked around for a sign
“Sterler street”
“Okay honey I'll be there in a second”
I lay with dad whispering and sobbing
“Selina's coming show her that your okay get up come on......please dad”
He just lay there, at that moment I knew my life was broken in two, all I can remember is Selina lifting me and giving me to a police officer who then put me in an ambulance where I held my dads hand all the way there, until he was taken away from me, I had broken my arm so it was in plaster, Me and Selina sat outside dads room waiting for news, her arms around me like a real mother would do to her son, not a step sister to her younger step brother
A doctor came out
“Miss fleming?”
Selina stood up
“Yes”
“We done all we could but hes gone, I'm sorry”
I understood exactly what was going on, I sobbed and fell to the floor in pain, Selina held me again, Trying to calm me down nothing worked, Even though we were blood related, he was still my dad and my life , I couldnt belive he was gone it all seemed so unfair and unreal.
I went and said my last goodbye to him, gently kissing his cold cheek and holding his bloodied hand.
We got home and I sat knees to my chest staring out of my bedroom window, half expecting him to walk back in at any second and tell me that it was dinner time, he obviously wasnt going to, I pulled my self in to a tiny ball and sobbed in to my knees my heart throbbing with
pain and grief, The rain pattered and I sniffled an hugged his shirts,Selina poked her head round the door,
"Tom?, Are you crying honey?"
"Nein, just leave me alone"
"No I can't leave you like this"
She scooped me off of the window sill and in to her arms, sitting on the bed with me in her lap like a small kitten, She curled one of my dreads around her finger
"I know you miss dad, but now he's gone and we just have to face it its just us now little dude"
I cried in to her for what felt like days, when she eventually left me to cry, for three days I just lay there looking up at the ceiling and wishing praying and hoping.
Until the day of the funeral came, I looked on dripping with rain as the coffin was lowered, I cried again everyone giving me sympathetic pats and hugs. I screamed
" I DONT WANT YOUR SYMPATHY, I WANT MY DADDY BACK YOU CANT BURY HIM HE WONT BE ABLE TO GET BACK UP, PLEASE JUST LEAVE HIM ALONE, ITS NOT FAIR ,WHY WONT YOU LISTEN TO ME!!"
Selina was still crying and she held me close as he was lowered the rest of the way.
4 MONTHS LATER
The sun shone brightly from the sky, my school bag still on my back, I walked through the crisp grass until I came to the polished slab with his name on it.
I crouched down and put a bunch of flowers down I whispered
" Hey Daddy, How are you? things are a little rough up here sometimes I wish I could join you, we all miss you more than you could ever know, dad, Selina is taking good care of me I promise. I got you these flowers, 10 real 1 fake and Ill love you until every last one dies. I love you dad, Im gonna go home now miss you bye"
I walked home, tears in my eyes but feeling slightly refreshed, I stepped in the front door and cuddled Selina a small smile on my face"
Georg had tears in his eyes and I turned to Gustav
"your turn"