Days go by when Daddy doesn't say a word about our conversation a week ago. I was afraid he had thought it over and was having second thoughts. What I didn't know was that everything had already been decided.
I was about to start my new year on campus. I had finally found something I was sure I wanted to do. My major has always been health care, and at first, I thought about doing something new, but I decided that this is what I wanted to do. I want to help people, so I can do the same thing they did for my dad. My mom was beyond saving, but they did everything they could to save my daddy."Daddy?" I ask when I hear a door, I go to the door. Before I could get an answer, my dad was standing in front of me. His look was very painful, which made me worry about what had happened. "Daddy, are you okay?" I say worried about him. "Honey, do you remember our conversation from a while ago?" He asks as he walks into the living room. I follow him and take a seat next to him, my hands in his. My mind is already going to where he is talking about, he is talking about my marriage. The marriage I never asked for.
"Daddy, please don't start again, I'm perfectly happy," I say, squeezing his hand. He gives a little smile, but it doesn't feel like his warm laugh. "Sorry dear, we have talked about it, and now it is time to act". If I wasn't sitting on the couch, I would be lying on the floor, my body felt so weak. "Daddy, what did you do?" I almost whisper, so quiet is my voice when it leaves my vocal cords. "I'm sorry, honey, I really am." He starts to get up from the couch, but I take his hand, causing him to fall back onto the couch. My eyes cannot believe what I see. The big man who is my father has just fallen onto the couch from my pull. "Daddy, what is really happening?" He didn't say a word, just two words that couldn't be more shocking to me: "Wedding tomorrow." Now I was the one who stood up and walked away from my father. It was the first time I didn't want to be with my Daddy in a room. "I'm really sorry, Millie. Believe me, you will be so happy." Daddy could say what he wanted to hear, but for me, it was like talking to dead men's ears.
Marriage? I don't even know this man he wants me to marry, how could he know he would take care of me? My tears left my eyes like a flood that turned into waves. My heart is broken to hear that my father can just give me to a man and leave me with him. I wanted to study and be happy in this new house without all the problems we had all these years. Finally, I could think I could be happy and not it is all shattered.
It's too late when I make a rash decision to run away. The perfect child who always listens to her father, who is the point in her life, goes away from him. That was the first time I decided for myself. I don't want anyone to decide my life and what I should do. Daddy has always pushed me to do what I want to do, and now for the first time, I will do it. Daddy is healthy and fine, he doesn't need me, that's what I try to decide before I risk the thoughts. I walk down the stairs into the hallway with the bag on my back and look straight into my Daddy's face as if he is expecting something. "Don't think about it Millie, please, you should stay, I promise you'll be happy." I nod at my Daddy without answering and go straight back upstairs. I still can't sleep in my room and knowing that Daddy would be watching the door all night, I have to find another way.
Furthermore, I look at the window with my flower curtains and immediately an idea pops into my head. No, I could not do that, or could I? I take my sheets and begin to knot them together. With my hands, I silently open the window and throw the robe I have created out of the window. With my breath caught in my throat, I sit on the window to give myself some courage to try to get my body out of the window. My body goes lower against the wall, I let out a breath that makes my body slip, so I have to hold my scream so as not to wake anyone. Before I fall to the floor, I stop just before I feel the grass under the window. I curse in a whisper and hold on to the robe for support, my heart pounding loudly in my chest. If I fell, I wouldn't be dead, but at least I would be badly injured. Then I heard a laugh behind me, "Who is it?" I asked in a trembling voice. I didn't turn around to be afraid of who might be behind me, maybe it's a creep who lurks in other people's gardens. Millie, don't be stupid, there are no such people in these neighborhoods. "Nathan." The voice said from behind me, and as I started to turn around, I fell into his arms. "Sorry, lady, but this isn't going to work. Why did you climb out the window in the first place?" He asked a question I didn't want to answer.
What I didn't know at the time was that he was doing the same stupid thing, climbing out the window. We both had the same idea because we were both caught in a net from which we couldn't find a way out.
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By the window (ONC2024)
RomanceMillie's life started harder than just another teenager, she had to grow up faster than she wanted. Her mother died at a young age, and her father got sick fast after her mother's dead. When her father was diagnosed with cancer, everything shattered...
