Twenty-six

All through the rest of the day, all my mind went to was what my grandmother said when she had called me. She never really said anything about my father, so I assumed he was dead too. His coming back home was a whole lot of news and discovery, and it was a bit hard for me to take in.

Why did he leave for so long and is just returning now? Does he have something he came for? I needed these answers, and the only way to get them is to call my grandmother back and ask her for the full details of what she was telling me.

"Grandma?" I said as soon as I called and she picked it up on the first ring.

"Hailey, why did you hang up on me the other time? I called back and it said your phone was switched off. You should have at least listened to whatever it was that I had to say." She scolded me over the phone.

I wanted to immediately tell her that it was not me and it was Xavier who snatched the phone from me and switched it off, but I figured that it would only raise suspicions and she would wan