It has been a week and Dad has yet to call. He normally calls every other day. Sometimes when I'm really busy it can be frustrating because he always wants to talk for an hour. Now, I'm missing his call more than ever.
It also makes me think of how much I'm going to miss talking to him on the phone when I'm almost half a billion miles away.
Part of me wants to pick up the phone and call him myself, but I don't know what I would say. Nothing has changed from last time.
Through this I'm trying to put on a smile whenever Diego is in the room. I'm not trying to alert him of anything. To be fair it's not that hard to hide my stress from him these days. He spends all his time using that headset. For now it's actually kind of convenient, but I'm gonna need to find a way to manage the hours on that thing.
Maybe setting up a call for him to thank Dad for the headset will be a good way for me to open the door for some sort of communication.
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Europa
Science FictionIn order to embark on a mission to discover alien life on the icy moon of Jupiter Maria must leave her life on Earth behind, including her father and her seven-year-old son Diego. She thought the hardest part of the mission would be saying goodbye...
