Chapter 3
“Skylar” I heard a voice and felt a
tap on my shoulder. I lifted up my head to face the person and saw my dad. I
quickly closed my diary where I had scribbled down everything i went through
yesterday and this morning. I took off my headphones as he told me to go
inside. I got up and followed him inside, he kept talking about ‘meeting
someone’. I hadn’t got anything until i walked in our living room and saw a
girl sitting on my TV couch, glancing around. She stood up when she saw us. My
father went near her, grabbed her waist, they smiled at each other happily and
finally my dad spoke:
“Skylar, I want you to meet with my
girlfriend Vanessa. Vanessa, this is my the one and only daughter Skylar
Jaime.”
“Your dad told a lot about how an
amazing girl you are.” She said smiling sincerely as she stuck her hand out.
I just stood there still, not moving
even an inch, staring her. She was sincere I know that, but my ambition was to
infuriate my father. Vaness’s smile froze, she took back her hand. Dad shot me
this icy look that glued my feet to ground, but I managed to turn around and
walk up to my room. I heard him saying “Forgive her, i’ll talk to her now.”
I slammed my door and threw my stuff
on my desk. My door swung open and there i saw my infuriated father standing,
he shut the door fiercely that made me startled.
“What the hell do you think you’re
doing?” he said through clenched teeth.
“Nothing...” I said with a shaky
voice.
He grabbed my arm and spoke.”What was
your roughness to Vanessa then?”
“I didn’t do anything.” I said, tears
had filled my eyes but i controlled them from pouring down.
“You’re hurting my arm.” I said, now
my jaw was shaking from fear.
Then he realized what he was doing, he
released my arm. He began wandering around my room, I moved aside and clutched
my teddy bear hoping it would save me from his anger. I was really afraid, but
i was sure he couldn’t bring himself to harm me in NO way.
“You’re gonna apologize Vanessa okay?”
he demanded but this time more relented. I just nodded with my head and looked
down, tears streaming down. He saw my tears and embraced me as he kissed my
forehead and whispered “I love you" to my ear. Then he left my room.
I collapsed on my bed. Was he insane?
I don’t know him but if he comtinues behaving like that, I will be soon. One
second he’s a wild animal, the other he’s softer than silk. I glanced the
ceiling blankly, then i found a little piece of strength to go down to dinner.
I entered the dining room hesitantly,
there sat my father and Vanessa. I slowly reached my chair and sat down. I
looked at Vanessa shyly but against my thoughts, she smiled to me sincerely.
Once again dad was right, she hadn’t deserved my roughness. And little did i
know that she wasn’t a one-night-stand.
“I hope you’ll like my special meat.
I’m just cooking it for special occasions.” She said and put a piece of meat to
my plate. It smelled delicious and after eating a bit, i agreed to my father
telling how dexterous she was.
As we continued eating, I stared at
her carefully. I’ve always trusted my dad’s taste and this time he’d hit it on
the twelve. She had a seductive figure.
Her wavy black hair was nearly on her waist, her green/blue eyes were always
sparkling, her tanned body was more recognisable with her white tube top and
white leather trousers. She realized me gawking at her, so she smiled and
winked at me, i smiled back at her. That caught dad’s eye cos he smiled too.
Then dad explained why she was there
and all. I learned that she was a photographer and she was usually work with
some other artists and she was mostly out of town. She was gonna stay with us
cos dad wanted it. After i had done, i
washed my plate and again headed to the small dock. It was a bit windy outside
but i let summer breeze to lick my face and body. I sat down and picked my legs
to myself. I heard a bark. Turning around to see where it’s coming from, i saw
our St.Bernard running towards me.
“Hey, how are you doin’ bud?” i
stroked his head as he licked my face. He was such a nice dog that i could even
talk with him. I’ve never had really close friends at school, the only ones are
the Backstreet’s children and we were living far away from each other.
“Amazing place.” I heard Vanessa’s
sweet voice coming from the side of the sliding door that is opening to garden
and dock.
“Weather is really good tonight, ain’t
it?” she said as she made
herself comfortable, sitting next to
me.
“Hey, what’s your name cutie?” she
asked and stroked his head.
“Jordan.” I said as he started licking
her hand. “He liked you.” I added. I was positive, jordan wasn’t the kind of
dog that would follow everyone, he was different. And especially if he had
licked someone then it means s/he got his approval.
“Hey Vanessa, I wanna apologize for my
behavior today...I’m sorry, really...I had an attitude and believe me, i had no
feelings against ya.”
“It’s okay, don’t worry. If i had a
handsome father like yours, i’d behave worse to keep him away from girls.” She
said smiling.
Later that night, we went inside
talking and giggling where we found my dad watching a documentary. He was happy
to see his daughter and girlfriend got along well.
Actually, she was really cool, the
fact that her being just 24 upset me but
didn’t care much. As we kept on talking about ourselves, my dad and boys, we
found out how many resembelances we had.
“He acts really different from time to
time. To be a young dad causes this i reckon. Y’know honey, he was at the same
age with ya when he had you...it means a lot responsibilities apart from his
job. You also know the difficulties of his job. When all of this got up on his
shoulders, he tried his best to handle...but he’s human, it was obvious that
he’d explode from somewhere. But i love him and i want to share some of these
obligations. I hope you can understand that.” Of course i could understand that
about responsibilities and weirdness all of them.
When my head was finally on my soft
pillow, my dad knocked the door and came in to say goodnight. It’d been a long
time since he came up to my room and kissed me. He veiled me with my blanket,
kissed my forehead and before turnning of my lampshade, he whispered.
“Tomorrow, I’m throwing a big party,
it’s kind of a barbecue and a brunch thing. Everybody will be here, the other
guys, their families and all...so sleep good my little baby.”
With that, he winked at me and faded.
Now, i was laying there amazed. How
could i handle such a changeable dad?
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