Sealed With a Kiss

Here I come California

Ok, so this chapter goes kind of fast.. or so I think.. but tell me how it is, I know the beginning is horrible, but I had to get to the main point, so yeah... here it is!!

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Chapter 2: California

Weeks were passing by and neither of us showed any emotions. My friends tried cheering me up, but it was no good. I felt lost.

My dad tried making the best of it, but I could still see that he was faking everything. One day Jackie called. Jackie was my cousin. She lived in California with her husband and recently had a child.

“Hello?” I asked bored.

“Kailey?” Jackie asked. 

“Yeah?” I answered.

“It’s me, Jackie..” she whispered.

“Hi…” I said again.

“Hey are you ok?” Jackie asked.

“What do you think? Do I sound ok?” I asked her rudely.

“I’m sorry..” she said “Can you give it to your dad a second?”

“Here” I said handing the phone to my dad. 

My dad took the phone and started talking. I felt bad for a second, I was really rude to Jackie, but than again, I hated when people ask me if I’m ok, when they can clearly see I’m not. I sighed. My dad was still talking occasionally looking at me. 

My dad finished talking and put down the phone.

“Kailey,” He started.

“Yupp.” I said.

“Well, Jackie called, as you know, and I think she has a great idea.” He said.

I raised an eyebrow, “and that is…”

“She wants you to move in with her.” he said.

“WHAT?” I exclaimed.

“It’s a good idea. You can start new, you can start over again. This place is killing you, and you know that yourself. I think you should go. Think about it” he said as he left upstairs.

I looked at my dad painfully. I couldn’t just leave him here. He was dying himself too. We should both move, I wouldn’t mind that. But he’s right, I needed to get away from this house. School was ending in another two days, I’ll go in the summer. I just can’t take all the memories. Each time I go into this house, I see my mom’s and Trevor’s faces. It hurt too much. I go into the foyer and the gradually climb each step of the grand stairs remembering them. I walked the lonely corridors of this house tracing back memories of my game of impossible hide and seek in this huge house. Now that they were gone… it felt empty.

I walked upstairs and went into my dad’s bedroom.

“Dad, what about you?” I asked. 

“What about me?” He replied.

“I can’t just leave you here by yourself. That’s cruel of me, I just can’t” I looked at him.

“I’ll sell the house and move into some house or apartment, don’t worry too much.” he said.

“No, I can’t, how about we both move? Then I can still take care of you,” I asked.

“Kailey,” he chuckled. “I’m not a baby, I can take care of myself. I have too much work here, I can’t just randomly move to California. But, you can. Take the chance, do it for me.”