Aftermath

Daddy who's Eric?

Papa: Butters
Daddy/father: Kenny

I scrambled to pick up the pictures and ran out of the attic. I had to know who this guy was. Maybe a college friend? Or a neighbor? Who knows!
I ran up to my Papa with the pictures in my hand about to fall out. "Papa! Who's this fat man in these pictures with you!" I handed him every picture and his eyes widen and mouth dropped.
His lips began to quiver and tears filled his eyes.
"Papa?"
"Go to your room."
I could hear anger in his voice.
"Who is it papa?"
"NAOMI ANN MCCORMICK!"
"I turned around and saw my Daddy with a furious look on his face. He had one of the pictures in his hands but now is was crumbled. "Daddy who's that guy in the pictures?" "It doesn't matter go to your room. Now."
I looked back at papa who was crying, "P-papa.." Daddy came in and hugged papa whispering things into his ear as I walked upstairs into my room holding on if the mysterious man's pictures.

"I just wanna know who that man is. Is that so hard?" I scribbled on a sheet of paper in confusion and anger. "Why'd they get so mad at me? And what did he do to papa to make him cry.." Papa never cried. Not even when he busted his chin on a swing set playing with me and Austin. He didn't shed one single tear, ever. And now he was balling his eyes out and had to have Daddy calm him down. I just didn't understand.
Daddy came into my room and sat me on my bed.
"Naomi, you can't go digging into our old stuff anymore okay?"
I blinked in confusion.
"Father who's this guy?" I held up the picture once again. "He's in every photo with Papa and I just wanna know who he is."
Daddy took the picture outta my hands, tore it up, and raised his voice again. "No one to your concern young lady that's ENOUGH."
That was it. I got teary eyed from frustration, confusion, and anger. "I just wanna know who this man is why is everyone so mad at me??"
I silently sobbed and daddy held me close. "Pumpkin something's that happened in the past need to stay there. That man he... he's not a good man. He hurt your papa in many ways and it took awhile for papa to leave him. He left for a reason and tried to erase that part of his life from his memory forever."
"What do you mean he hurt him?"
"He hurt him baby that's all you need to know. I'll explain to you when you're much older." He gave me another hug and a kiss on the cheek. "No ones mad at you pumpkin, just Shaken up by that. Let's leave it in the past." He smiles at me with his warm comforting smile. I nodded my head and smiled back.
But I wasn't gonna give up.
I'll find who this man is.