Daddy Don't Let Go

14

Two years later...
April 15, 2014
Asher's POV

It's been two years since Avril came into my life and one year since she and my dad got married in Paris, but here's the kicker, I wasn't even invited.

Yeah, that's right, I wasn't invited to my own father's wedding. Yeah, I was in Paris with them, but Avril didn't want me to 'tarnish' her big day. Basically, she wanted all the attention on her, so I was sitting in the empty room apart from the room they got married in.

Dad hasn't really told her to stop being rude to me much and it's taken effect. Hell, not being part of my own father's wedding took a really big piece of me.

I'm in my room right now, looking through a photo album from when I was little and sigh as I want my dad back.

Lately, Avril has been trying to get Dad to have another baby, but Dad is weary of doing so, as of my paternally genetic heart condition.

Yep, it came from him. He's a carrier and is less affected due to the fact that girls get it worse.

Oh, did I mention that Avril got dad to take me off my Hormone Therapy and for him to change my name back to Misty Lillian all because her parents are transphobic assholes and she wanted to please them? Yep that all happened recently.

I'm super pissed and haven't been interacting with them recently.

I'm walking downstairs to get something to eat when I see a packet of papers on the table.

Involuntary Psychiatric Hold for a Minor under 16.

I read it some and see my name.

Misty Lillian Kroeger

Age: 15

Mental health issues: Depression and C-PTSD

I notice that there is a thirty or sixty day hold on the paper and I see that the sixty is checked I drop to the floor and begin to sob as I see Dad come in to the kitchen.

"Misty? Sweetheart, are you okay?" He asks and I glare at him as I throw the papers at him.

"So you and that bitch were planning on admitting me to a Psych ward without my knowledge!? What the hell is wrong with you!?" I yell as I storm upstairs nd slam my door shut.

Chad's POV

I pick the papers up that Misty threw at my face and see that they are papers for an Involuntary Psychiatric Hold for minors under 16. I see that her name is put down and that the sixty day hold is checked.

Avril comes in around 7 and I toss the papers on the table.

"What the hell is this?" I ask her and she sighs.

"Chad, Misty needs help. She refused to let me in and she is angry with me for no reason at times! Hell she's the reason we can't have a baby right now because I don't trust that she won't hurt it out of spite!" Avril says and I scoff as I drink my beer.

"My fifteen year old daughter was torn up so badly because you didn't let her be part of our wedding, then you made it so that I had to take her off Testosterone therapy and change her name because your family is transphobic. Then you do this? I didn't even know what she was talking about, Avril! She blamed me for this! She thinks I don't want her around!" I yell and she flinches away.

"I don't want her around though. She's just a byproduct of one of your failed relationships and I think you should give your ex full custody." Avril says and I glare at her.

"I'm going to apologize to my daughter and you are packing a bag to go to you brothers. I'm not putting my daughter through this again." I say as I go upstairs to talk to Misty.

As I open the door, I see her in the windowsill of her room and sigh as I walk to her.

"She doesn't want me around, I got that. I'll go stay in Hawaii with Uncle Mike and his family." She says and I feel my heart breaking as I pull her close.

"Misty, I had nothing to do with those papers, honey. Nothing, I swear. I won't ever do that to you again, I told you that when you were ten. Babygirl, look at me please." I beg her and she looks at me and I see her bloodshot eyes and dark rings under them.

"She has always hated me, since you guys got together two years ago. When you're gone, she tells me that I'll be nothing to you once she has a child with you and that she doesn't even want to see me in the house half the time. She took all my trophies from playing Soccer and broke them as well, that's why they're not here anymore. She said it was because I needed discipline and you never gave me any such thing. She doesn't want me around and I know that, so I'm leaving. I'm moving to LA to stay with my boyfriend's, Carter's, family. You signed the paper already, Avril gave it to you when you were drunk and turned it in. I won't make you chose, Daddy. You deserve love." She says as she walks away from me and I feel my heart break.