The unbroken ones

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Authors note: hello people! How is your day going? I am sick, and I am craving a banana. 

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Was dad in shock? I followed dad, and we went to a beautiful little coffee shop near the park. The roads were busy. Plumbers were everywhere, trying to fix the old apartments of New York. The smell of diesel was filling the air.

The Coffee shop was enormous. It had two floors, the one at the bottom was full of old grandmothers sitting and sipping some tea. It had big fluffy coaches giving you a home feeling. The tables were made of glass. Windows were reaching out all the way to the ceiling. The second floor was full of students, sitting at their own table with their laptops. 

The chairs were white and the tables too. The curtains were long, grey. Dad opened the huge door, the smell of coffee hit my face. 

"What do you want?" Dad asked me. I was still processing this, it had been a very long time since dad and I went out. We never did this, mostly because this was wasted money and time. 

"A chai latte" I said, smiling at dad. Dad walked to the checkout. The walls of the coffee shop had colorful posters on it, some of them had written facts on it about the coffee they made here. Others were posters to give you a boost of confidence. I read the different posters. "The key to beauty, is to accept yourself" . 

"Here you go" dad said sending me, my latte. He was holding the grocery bag in his left hand. "Let's go to the park kid. And please hurry up, I am the oldest here and I can walk faster than you" dad said, his eyebrow lifting up a little. A smile formed at my lips.

We got to the park. It was full of people, elderly couples watching the birds, students on picnic blankets doing their work and some people in their thirties just getting a break. The sun was still on the blue sky.

The trees were green, so was the soft grass under our feet. Dad and I, found a bench near the small lake. It was a wooden bench with a table in front of it. The lake was ruining slowly, and the ducks was enjoying the bread the grandmas were trowing. "Do you have to go?" I asked dad, hoping that he would say "no I can stay here, or you can come with me" like miracle or something. 

"Rose you know that, we need the job. I need the job. You are going to go to college in a few years, you need the money. The house rent, my little Bigfoot. I need to go" he said while handing me a chocolate donut with pink sprinkles. "So the plan just carries on? I move in with Alex in Elisabeth's apartment?" I ask dad.

He took a sip of his coffee and clears his throat. "The apartment is on Elisabeth name but her youngest son lives there. The apartment is here in New York. But don't worry kid, just like Alex said, he will be on a business trip. So nothing to worry about" dad said. We ate in silent. 

"You know, I used to take out your mother on dates here before you were born. She used to take her homemade brownies, and I used to take the picnic blanket and some books. We used to sit here on the grass eating and reading our books in silent. And just to sit there and be with a person who made you so happy, that was a feeling I just can't explain" dad said looking towards the lake. He pointed at a spot on the other side of the lake. It was a big tree with leafs that looked like flowers. A little further down the tree, there was some long brown branches hanging out. "We used to sit right there" dad said, with a small smile on his lips. I looked at dad, and then at the lake. The day was still sunny, and I was feeling great, but that numerous feeling never left my stomach. 

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Story time: I was making brownies the other day, and when I left them in the oven they came out burned. That was not my fault! The recipe said 30 minutes in the oven, but after 30 minutes the brownie still looked so...so light colored. Brownies are supposed to be dark but mine wasn't so I let them be in the oven for 15 more minutes:). Don't do that, just take out your brownies even if they are light brown, just take them out. 

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