Promises

Chapter 14

-IVORY

I hear laughing downstairs, it's my dad's laugh. I run downstairs and greet my parents with a hug.

"Come eat breakfast, your dad made us all pancakes," my mom said with a smile on her face.

Shes always smiling, her smile never fades away, everyone is always cheerful and it's so nice being at home. I feel like I can be myself with my family, tell them anything I want.

"Dad, this is delicious. You need to cook breakfast more often, mom can't make pancakes to save her life," I joke.

"Heyyy, come on now Ivory." Me and my dad give mom a look.

"Ok maybe your right," she replied laughing.

My dad groans in pain. My mom and I stand up out of our seats and run over to him.

"Take me to a hospital, please," he begged us. We threw his arms over our shoulders and ran to the car. We sat him into the back seat and put on the seat belt. I was calming down my mom while my dad sat with his eyes closed and his hand clenching his heart.

My mom's constant smile had faded. I look around the car, the silence is painful, no one laughing, no one smiling. No one is cracking jokes or eating my dad's delicious pancakes.

"Mom?"

"Yes honey,"

"Is dad going to be ok?"

She ignores me and continues looking at the road.

"MOM." My dad opens his eyes and closes them again with a frown now on his face.

"I'm driving right now Ivory," my mom replies.

We rush into the hospital and a nurse helps us hold him up. Another nurse runs up with a wheelchair and we sit him into it.

"Is he going to be ok?" I ask one of the nurses. She shrugs her shoulders. At this point I'm pissed. I just want to know if my dad will be ok.

I run after my dad but a nurse pushes me back.

"We don't know, your dad is having a heart failure."

A tear rolls down my cheek as I question how this could have happened. Stuff like this shouldn't happen to good people. I sink down onto the floor in the middle of the floor and dig my head into my hands. A nurse taps me on the shoulder.

"Come with me, let's have a talk," she tells me.

We sat and talked as she calmed me down. She seemed to have a naturally calming voice. I felt safe talking to her, like she was the big sister Ive always wanted.

"You can go talk to your dad now," she told me.

I looked around for my mom, she didn't seem to be here. I walked around the waiting room, checked the toilet, the smoke room everywhere. She wasn't anywhere.

"Your mom will be back soon," the nurse tells me. I guess I'm going alone.

I walk into the room, scared of what I will see inside. My dad looked pale on the hospital bed. He had on one of those hospital gowns and he had tubes sticking out of him. There was a monitor beside him, beeping every second, to show his heart is still beating.

"Hey dad," I speak softly.

"Ivory, my sweet Ivory," he says with his eyes closed.

"Mom isn't here right now I don't know where she is," I tell him.

"Oh, your mother is like that, she always disappears when anything goes wrong, but I love her to death," he says, you can hear the passion in his voice.

"The day I met your mother, I knew she was going to be the one, my eyes felt like they sparkled when I saw her,"

"I know dad you've told me a million times,"

"And I'd tell you a million times again. Your mother is an angel sent from heaven honey, she will always be there for me,"

"Shes not here right now," A tear rolls down my cheek.

"That's ok, this is hard on her, Ivory I love you and your mother very much, I don't think I say this enough, but I am so grateful to have a family like you two," He opens his eyes as he takes a good look at me, he holds my hand.

"I love you Ivory, you and your mother both."

He closes his eyes. His grip on my hand loosens. I grab his hand tighter again but he doesn't hold onto me. The device beside him starts beeping continuously. I lean over him and place my head on his chest.

"No, no come back, come back, please," I sob as his heart stops beating.

"Wake up honey, it's time for school," my mom says as she walks into my room.

"You know, you left me alone when dad died. I was there all alone, with no one to cry to but nurses," I look at my mom angrily.

"I ju-"

I don't let her talk.

"He told me how much you mean to him, how your always by his side. When was the last time you visited dads grave?" I cry.

"I don't know," she says calmy.

"Of course, you don't, because you didn't love dad like he loved you, you just forgot all about him and went and got engaged to this asshole, who raped me by the way."

I ran out of my room sobbing. My mom didn't chase after me, she just stood there. Frozen completely