Tomorrow will be mine and Anthony's one year anniversary. Anthony and I talked about what we were going to do tomorrow for our one year anniversary, we talked about going out to eat and going to go do something else but he will not tell me because he wants it to be a suprise. When I got home my mom and my brother was home and they were sitting down in the living room crying, I didn't know why they were crying. I walked over to my mom and said "what is going on? Why are y'all crying?" She looked up at me and told me "Sit down sweety we need to have a talk with you." I did not know what we need to talk about, but I just sat there and listened to what she had to talk to me about. "I don't know how to tell you this in a way for you not to get upset, your dad has passed away." I did not know what to do, right away I started to cry. I ran upstairs to my bedroom. I sat on my bed and stared at a picture of me and my dad on the day I won my first pageant. I started to cry even more. I got out of my bed and went to the chest at the end of my bed and got all my pictures out of it and looked trought all of them, most of them were pictures of me and my dad. Me and my dad were more than best friends. We told each other everything. Once I calmed down a little bit, I called Anthony and told him. I told Anthony because his dad was never in his life, so my dad was like his dad. I called Anothony and I told him "I have some bad news and I don't know how to say this without crying but... dad has passed away." I heard nothing for a little bit. "Hello?" I said. "Sorry, I just am speachless, I don't know what to say. Do you want me to come over for a little bit?" Anthony said. "Yes, please." I replied. "Ok. I will be there in ten minutes." Anthony told me. I hung up. I did not know what to do for ten minutes. Next thing I knew, Anthony text me and said "I'm here, I will just walk in and go to your room. Is that ok?" I texted him back with "That is perfect. See you in a few." When Anthony walked in my bedroom the first thing he did was hug me, it was a very tight hug. I told Anthony "I don't know how he passed, but I did not want to find out untill I get over the fact that he passed." Anthony was looking at the ground and not at me. I put my finger under his chin and lifted his head up so I could see his face, once I looked at him I saw that he was crying. While wiping Anthony's tears I told him "Baby please don't cry. I know how you feel but please don't cry." "I can't help it, dad was like my best friend and he was like a father to me." he said. I started to cry a little "think of all the good times y'all had together. Think of the good memories." I told Anthony. I looked at my phone, I had two missed calls, five text messages. I unlocked my phone and look at the two missed calls, it was Anthony's mom. I then looked at my text, they were all from Anothony's mom asking me if I knew where Anthony was. "Anthony, did you tell your mom that you were coming over or did you just leave?" I asked Anthony. Anthony looked at me with his big blue eyes and said "Oh my gosh! I forgot to tell my mom I was coming over!" I called Anthony's mom "Sorry, Anothony is over here, he forgot to tell you that he was coming over here, and it was a huge emergency." "What kind of emergency?" his mom asked me. "My dad passed away." I replied. "Oh, sweetie I'm sorry." his mom said. "It is ok. What time do you want Anthony home?" I asked her. "Um, I will call your mom, I need to have a word with her. I love you sweetie and againI'm sorry about your dad." she said. she hung up without me saying anything else. I looked at Anthony "That was your mom, she has to talk to mom." He looked at the stack of pictures on the chest at the end of my bed, picked them up and started to look through them. "NICHOLE AND ANTHONY COME HERE!" my mom yells. Anthony and I look at each other for a minute and then walk out of my bedroom, down the stairs to the kitchen where my mom is. "Yes ma'am?" I say. "I just got off the phone with Anthony's mom. She told me that she gave Anthony the permission to spend the night and skip school tomorrow and stay with us. I agreed with her, but you guys know my rules and my expectations." Anthony and I look at each other and smile. I looked back at my mom and said "yes ma'am, we do." "You guys need to get to bed. Anthony do you need a pair of shorts?" my mom asked. "No, I was going to just wear my basketball shorts Nichole stole from me." Anthony said with a giggle. "Haha, ok. Well I will see you guys in the morning. I have to work tomorrow and your brother has to go to work so it is going to be just you two here at the house. Is that ok?" "Yes ma'am." Anthony replied. Anthony and I walk back upstairs. Once we got upstairs in my bedroom I gave Anthony his basketball shorts and told him "you change in here and I will go change in the bathroom." I walked out the door and went into the bathroom to change and to wash my face. When I got done changing and washing my face I went back to my room and Anthony was already laying in my bed watching T.V. I laughed at him because it looked like he was a home. I laid next to him. We watched T.V for a little bit. Anthony turned the T.V off and we snuggled until we fell asleep.
