The Troubled

Chapter 1: Outside World

He was a great guy... or so we thought. He had me fooled, no, he had us ALL fooled. Even his own family.  You could ask anyone in town what they thought of my father before it happened and they would say he was a nice guy. A little shy, but he was nice. I will tell you as much as I know about him, though I'm not sure how much is true, because he was a liar. What I know is that he lived in Alaska when he was a kid. One little story he used to tell me was that he had a girlfriend there, and he wanted to go visit her but didn't have a car and she lived rather far away. So my father and one of his friends decided to walk to her with a  box of chocolates and surprise her. But a winter storm blew through and it became a "fight for survival" and they had to live off of that box of chocolates. Now I don't know if I actually believe this story, because like I said, he was a compulsive liar. What the world saw 11 years ago was a single man that had two daughters who thought that their father was the light of their lives and the greatest person in the ENTIRE world. He built small barns for a living. When I was in 2nd grade we met my now adoptive mother and then we became the perfect family. We had a restaurant and he worked in that restaurant and he was still the father of two little girls who thought he was the light of their lives. When he would come and pick them up from school they would be so proud and excited that he was there so they could show off that this awesome man was their father. He was always the one that his daughters would confide in because he knew how to make them trust him. He made them love him so much that they would do anything for him. And they did.