Chapter 42

Chapter 42: Face him

"Mom, did you read the journal?" I asked and saw her nod.

"I was so devastated that everything ended just like that. He lived in the darkness and he just kept it all to himself without telling us. If he had told us everything in the first place, or even if he had told me, I wish we could have helped him. I wish we had quickly known all the secrets that had to be revealed. We would not have lived a miserable life. All this would not have happened."

I cried so hard. I don't know why my tears still don't stop till now. I didn't think I could last that long. I kept on regretting my decisions in the past. Dad and I have something in common, we like to keep our problems to ourselves. We thought it was a good idea to do that until we couldn't solve our problem anymore... and ran away. But Dad, he didn't run away. He faced the consequences and waited for me to come back so that we could talk. It's too late.

I sobbed. "It turns out he wasn't the father of Francine's baby.