Faith
Faith clicked the pen top for the thousandth time. She gazed at the picture she'd found in her belongings. It was her when she was a kid, standing with two little boys. On the back, scrawled in messy writing was 'Christmas 1986'. From the tattered memory she had, those two boys were the sons of her father, but not to her mother. Her real dad had taken off shortly after that, and about two weeks after that, he'd come back for his sons. Leaving Faith alone with her mother.
She clicked the pen top again, and lifted the pen to the paper. She started to write out the lyrics to "Emotionless" by Good Charlotte, as she listened to it play on her CD.
Hey Dad
I'm writing to you, not to tell you that I still hate you,
Just to ask you how you feel...
And how we fell apart?
How this fell apart?
Are you happy out there in this great wide world?
Do you think about your sons?
Do you miss your little girl?
When you lay your head down, how do you sleep at night?
Do you even wonder if we're alright?
But we're alright.
We're alright.
It's been a long, hard road without you by my side.
Why weren't you there the nights that we cried?
You broke my mother's heart you broke your children for life
It's not ok, but we're alright.
I remember the days you were a hero in my eyes
But those are just a long, lost memory of mine
I spent so many years learning how to survive
Now I'm writing just to let you know I'm still alive.
The days I spent so cold , so hungry,
Were full of hate, I was so angry.
The scars run deep inside this tattooed body
There's things I'll take to my grave
But I'm ok, I'm ok.
It's been a long, hard road without you by my side.
Why weren't you there the nights that we cried?
You broke my mother's heart you broke your children for life
It's not ok, but we're alright.
I remember the days you were a hero in my eyes
But those are just a long, lost memory of mine
Now I'm writing just to let you know I'm still alive.
I'm still alive.
Sometimes I forget, yeah and this time, I'll admit...
That I miss you, I said I miss you.
It's been a long, hard road without you by my side.
Why weren't you there the nights that we cried?
You broke my mother's heart you broke your children for life
It's not ok, but we're alright.
I remember the days you were a hero in my eyes
But those are just a long, lost memory of mine
Now I'm writing just to let you know I'm still alive.
And sometimes I forget, and this time, I'll admit,
That I miss you, I miss you...
Hey Dad...
Faith put the pen down and stood up. She picked the photo up and after regarding it for a second, she tossed it down on top of the paper and headed into her bedroom, and flopped onto her bed.
She wished she hadn't remembered the day her father had left. She didn't remember much else, nothing about her mother, but whenever she thought about her mother, she had a feeling of dread. So she wasn't looking forward to remembering anything there.