The New Light of Hope: Books I to VI.

Chapter XX: Father's Day.

Bellatrix:

Date: June 20, 2020.

Father's Day 2020 for Lucella and as always, we take this day to spend time with our father's step-father's, foster father's, adoptive father's, and our father figures if so; and for fathers to celebrate their fatherhood; fathers to children whether they are biological, step, foster, or adoptive, fathers who never got the chance to hold their child in their arms, fathers who were left to take care of their children by themselves if their wives left or died, fathers who acted like a father figure to someone else in their life if they never had one in their life, and even fathers who have passed on and our now six feet beneath where we stand.
And me, Abigail, and Darson were celebrating it with our father at his house for the weekend while our other rested though we would keep in check with her so that way she did not feel alone and to know how she was doing and we would later return sometime on Sunday. And it's needless to say, we had such a great time spending quality time with our father for Father's Day for the first time ever since the divorce and we felt happy as well and so did our father and our mother knowing that we were having such a good time as well.

And I know for a fact that we spend Father's Day in a different way than we do.

Summer:

Hello, Father, it has been a while since I last had spoken with you about what has been going in life, but I might as well tell you.

To start off, you may already know, but Grandfather --your father-- the man who valiantly fought by America's side in World War II, had passed away in January after living for over a century in this world. Then, as you probably already know if she is up there with you now as I speak with you, mother had succumbed to her heart disease in February and she be with you as I speak before you now. Then this whole pandemic started and Autumn was diagnosed with Stage four Colon cancer in mid-March, and, because of that cold doctor's selfishness, she's in the hospital as of right now as I am speaking with you and all I that runs through my mind is my lingering, imminent fear of losing her as well. The doctor's told me and the rest of the family not too long ago that the surgery to correctly place in the stint was a success and that Doctor Brian is currently in a lawsuit that was filed by us and other patients and he is currently being trialed for supposedly being a quack since numerous people who also filed the lawsuit against him had reported that when they or a relative went to the cancer center for treatment and he was their doctor and whenever he placed in a stint into them or their relative, it would seemingly come out and some of those patients ended up dying because of it. I'm glad that man's getting the karma he full-on deserves for carelessly landing Autumn in the hospital.

But, oh, at the same time, I reluctantly forgive him for what he has done to those people, for what he has done to Autumn, what he has done to us, and to our family as a whole. I can sense now that you and mother are just as worried about Autumn as we are, but I can assure you that everything will be okay in the end. But it is God himself who decides after all. But we need to keep praying in the hope that everything will get better in the end.

I can't tell what the future will be like, but I know that there will be good and bad outcomes along with how much time passes by.

And one day, we will be reunited with each other in the afterlife and we will all be young again once we do.

I love you and miss you dearly; your passing happened all too soon for me to say the least and I ended up making horrible decsions of what to do with my life which I now regret looking back because of how hard I took your death-- but thanks to the help of those younger than me, I am now on a better path and think twice before I act. Though, I still make hasty choices which I am working on getting better at.

Your passing was devastating to say the least, but it brings me a sense of relief knowing that you are no longer in any sort of pain and you are young and wild and stronger than ever before and it warms me inside knowing that probably right now as I am speaking, you and mother are watching over all of us.

That's all I have to say for right now, father. I will come back and visit you and mother as soon as I possibly can.

Happy Father's Day.