Meanwhile, Life Goes On

Chapter 4

Sitting in my chair with Mamaw standing in front of me, literally frozen, was probably one of the scariest feeling I have ever had. What seemed like hours had passed pop runs into my room. And then he just stops. He grabs mamaws hand and pulls her into the hallway and closes the door behind them. I  can hear some whispering but I was so shocked to try an listen. Mamaw walks back in, and sits down on my bed, next to my chair. "El I have something to tell you and you cannot say anything to your sister" "okay well what is it??" I had no idea what she was talking about. "Well your father was found on the shoreline of Alabama. We think that he was on his way to find you, but there is no way of knowing." I couldn't even talk and if I did I wouldn't know what to say. I think Mamaw picked up on my feeling so she got up, patted my leg, and walked out of the room closing the door behind. What am I supposed to think? Why would t they tell my sister? Just then I heard a knock at the door, so I looked out the window and saw Allen's truck. I immediately ran downstairs and met him in the kitchen.  I clung to him so perfectly with my arms around his neck, and legs around his waist. When Pop cleared his throat I immediately got to the ground. "So I guess you two are gonna go feed the goats?" Asked Mamaw "yeah that's fine with me." Allen replied. He headed out the front door and I followed behind him. We arrived to the barn and he sat down on the bench next to the chicken coop. I went and sat down next to him. He grabbed my hand and said " El what's wrong?" He knows me so well. " well I just found out my dad was found on the shoreline of Alabama." I already felt better telling him. "But I can't tell Chey." "Well what now? Like what was he doing there?" Allen always asks me questions that I don't know myself. "Well they think that he was on his way to find us. But no one is for sure. He was heading east which is pointed towards us here is North Carolina." "Wow. Do you know why they left you guys anyway?" Allen asks "no." That's the only thing I could reply with. I think he caught on to my sadness, and he picked me up and took me to the goat pen. After about an hour we had the barn spotless. That's when we headed up to the house. When we arrived at the house, I could smell something tasty. We walked in the back door and sat down at the table. Mamaw had prepared us chili and grilled cheese. After eating, Allen and I went to my room.
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