"Genevieve, we're here" Uncle Brian says tapping my shoulder. We were finally in my dream place , New York City ! I run in circles with excitement grabbing my stuff and completely ignoring and forgetting my medication. Daddy was just happy to see me happy , he told me I acted like a Mini Uncle Angus. My hands were shaking so much with excitement that I couldn't retain it and flapped them around .
"Gen , you gotta take your pills , your getting too excited" Uncle Ang said.
My eyes vibrated in a delay of excitement . Uncle Angus was scared and asked if it was normal for my eyes to vibrate like that , in which I mean did happen but I never told anyone .
Daddy looked at my eyes and they did it again.
"Uhhhh😳 that's not normal , maybe it's just from excitement? Does it hurt?"
I nod my head no . Uncle Brian held me on his lap while Daddy gave me pills . I didn't like them , one , they tasted horrible , 2, cause it always took the excitement out of me . But, I was guaranteeing myself that it wasn't gonna happen cause I was way too excited . I was in the JFK airport, in New York, New York . I was so incredibly hyper but I kept control of it . But then.. something happened 😳 . A tail came out of me, like a dog but it was pointy and red . Like Satan's.. oh well I didn't care , it wagged from all my excitement .
"THERE THEY ARE! THE TWIN TOWERS!!!! *tail wags faster and faster" I say excitedly .
"Yep the world trade centers!" Uncle Brian said .
I was so incredibly excited and bent my head far back to look at them . It was a beautiful sight .
Uncle Cliff pointed my tail out.
"Hey Gennie? What's that poking out of your tush?"
I look at it and shrug looking around at all the fancy people with block phones, the society in general , the buildings , everything in the limo .
It was fascinating to finally be where I wanted to be . The car stopped and I intended/thought we were leaving and I run out of the car looking for the famous street , Wall Street.
"GENEVIEVE COME HERE NOW!!" Daddy said angrily . Of course I didn't hear him cause I was running around looking for the street .
"Son of a BITCH, the child's on loose" Daddy says angrily.
I was running with my camera in my small backpack looking around the cool famous places I kept seeing in the brochure. I ran with my camera fastly looking at the signs of where each place was , I must've been running for a long time cause I was looking at a sign that said "Lower Manhattan" . Lower Manhattan, man did that look familiar. I looked in the brochure and there it was , Lower Manhattan, New York City, the Twin Towers (World Trade Center). I look up from the brochure and there they were , standing beautiful and tall to make your head go back. I was in such shock that I'd finally get to go to America and be in the best area, New York!
I listened to the international speakers , I recognized the voice , Frank Sinatra, the song New York . I knew the song and started singing . A police man came by and screamed at me cause I was alone . I ran inside the left twin tower to a elevator. The police man ran after me
"HEY ! YOU CAN'T BE OUT HERE OR IN HERE ALONE!" he said screaming . I didn't listen and headed to the opening elevator, alone , man did it feel good. I pressed a button with the number "83" on it and we were heading up! I sighed in relief and surprisingly there was no one coming . Then , all of a sudden on like the 56th floor like 9 people crowded me in going up too .
"Hello! Where are your parents , you shouldn't be out here alone" a lady says to me.
"I wasn't alone , I ran off from my parents actually but please , do not tell the police man if you see him" . I say to the group of people.
"Oh I wont!" She says lying to me .
I headed out and ran off into a bathroom corner , thankfully , it was the women's bathroom, at least i thought it was .
"Excuse me , have you seen a ch- CRUD WE GOTTA GO" Daddy says with a whole bunch of people running toward him .
There was multiple police cars in front of the left tower , the same lady was talking with a police officer as the other one was talking into his speaker to the others in the building.
"Excuse me ma'am , have you seen a little child running or in the building with a red pointy tail?" Daddy says nicely.
"YES! SHE WAS UP ON THE 73RD FLOOR!" she says to him in a panic.
Daddy and the boys ran to the building looking for me .
"73rd floor" Uncle Angus says .
"Jesus, that's really far up there" Uncle Brian says
The elevator opened and Daddy ran to the elevator.
"COME ON! ITS OPEN!" he says yelling .
There was cops on almost every single floor you can imagine .
I was hiding in a bathroom stall away from the police man. I finally got the courage to leave and was fascinated by how New York looked from high up! It was just beautiful looking at all the buildings and taxis and everything else you can imagine.
Then, of course , I heard a police man but I ignored it .
Daddy panicked in the elevator . Uncle Cliff comforted him and told him that he'll find me.
Then something bad happened , really bad .
I was looking at a window behind someone's desk and a cop sneaked up on me and grabbed my arm. What a coincidence too cause as he was grabbing me roughly and dragging me , Daddy was right there too .
"GETCHUR HANDS OFF OF MY CHILD !" he said angrily as other people stared .
I was in a daze of being in love with New York that I didn't even feel him grab me. It hurt after I stopped dreaming . The police man let me go and daddy came over to me and of course, just like any other kid would , run.
I ran to a office far off that lead into another area with elevators.
But it had multiple not just one that lead to another . I saw Uncle Angus as the doors closed and I sat on the ground as the elevator went down.
"CRAP AGAIN?! MY GOD" he says annoyed.
I sit there enjoying my music and listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan in my little cassette player. I was pretty happy which I'm not gonna lie . Daddy got to the 3rd floor and ran the rest down catching and looking for the elevator that was going down .
*ding* I was on the floor of the elevator shook looking at Daddy , he was angry and looking at me in a angry way . He tackled me and carried me.
"Genevieve. You understand how much trouble your in right?" Daddy says to me.
I didn't hear him from my headphones . He puts me down and smacks them out of my ears .
"I SAID ARE YOU LISTENING!" he says angrily .
I was just shocked in the fact that he did that but I was strong because I wasn't gonna let my own father ruin my first opportunity.
"YES I DID!" I say back .
"DONT YELL AT ME! YOJR IN BIG TROUBLE YOUNG ONE , IN FACT NO MORE STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN OR CHUCK BERRY FOR YOU !" He says angrily still throwing my cassette on the floor stepping , crushing my heart and ripping the tape out. I was just so in shock with the fact that he did that , I just sat there , pale , nervous , embarrassed, sad and worst of all CRUSHED. People looked at me and some even laughed . My uncle's stayed back and watched .
"And you know where this belongs in your behavior? The trash, I'm not tolerating any of this nonsense! *throws it out*" he says to me in a tone.
I was in disbelief, my own father , had just crushed my heart on my first day and opportunity of a lifetime. I just stood there , heartless , sad and just completely angry at myself. My two prized possessions , destroyed before my eyes.
I was silent like never before and numb.
What was I gonna do now? I couldn't ask for another one of each, nor could I ask for something at all in this manner of tension between me and my daddy.
I just listened with my heart shattered and walked with him to the hotel .
"Your under punishment. Now come on" he says to me.
I eyes shrunk in fear looking at that hand , I felt lightheaded and dizzy from being so nervous . I've never seen my dad this angry or at least in a very long time .
I don't take his hand but walk with him as I felt the silence swarming me with anxiety .
"Um Phil , I just wanted to say, you just crushed your own child's soul . The only thing that can make a child happy, its soul." Uncle Malcolm said.
Daddy looked at me annoyed and said "they'll be fine, they'll get over it" .
Someone came over to me and whispered "hey kid , I snook in the trash and digged this out for ya , I replaced the cartridge and fixed the tape for both of them for you, you're all good" he says dropping it in my bag .
I felt some sort of feel but not enough from my trauma of my own father crushing my soul right before my eyes .
