adopted by my idol (#wattys2015)

chapter 12

July 17th 1992

Lucy's POV:

we're in another country now but I have no idea where, daddy keeps taking something every night before bed and it can't be normal right?

"daddy are you still not well?" I ask daddy whilst we're in the room playing bored games

"what do you mean sweetie?"

"I heard you taking something before bed for the last few nights. do you need a doctor cause flu don't last this long, it's normally only a few days"

when I say that Frank looks interested and asks to speak to daddy in private, I get the feeling no one was meant to know. I'm such an idiot on times, I wish I kept my mouth shut now. I sit there and sit there, I look at the time and it's been 30 minutes so I start to do some drawings whilst I wait. Finally after close to 2hrs Frank leaves and daddy don't come back into the room, I get up and walks towards the other room and I stand in the doorway and daddy has his back to the doorway and I hear sniffles. now I feel so guilty,  I make my way over and I hug him tightly

"I'm sorry daddy, I didn't mean to get you in trouble or anything"

"you got nothing to be sorry for sweetie" daddy says hugging me back.

Michael's POV:

I lay there with my arm around Lucy, I didn't know that she knew about the pills but I'm glad she did and said what she did. I don't want to go into rehabilitation but I have to stop this, I'm making a deal with myself that when I come back out I'm going to be the best father to Lucy and I'm going to sort this mess out. I don't wanna pay up but everyone is saying it's the best way and I just want it over with, I do feel bad knowing that Lucy is going to meet Elizabeth for the first time and will be with her for the 2 weeks. that is surely going to be overwhelming for her but I trust Elizabeth to take care of her whilst at the same time making the 2 weeks fun.