Chapter 57

The whole dining room was silent for the next few minutes. You could hear a pin drop and that would sound like a bomb dropping.

After those few minutes, everything erupted into chaos. All the family on Darren's side was so happy and wanted to come and hug us and congratulate us. I could see that dad was just sitting down and staring and not really registering what was going on around him. I loosened Darren's arm around me and made my way to his side to see that he was okay and maybe talk to him if he had some questions.

I arrived and put my hands on his shoulders to try and get him to look at me and register me and not just look and stare into space in front of him.

"Dad, hey dad. Look at me."

He finally looked at me and he looked really sad.

"Why would you do this to yourself? Why?"

He stood up while asking me why.

"I didn't mean for this to happen, it just happened. Dad, please look at me."

He started moving whi