“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?