Practically Daddy [COMPLETE]

Chapter 40

I made my way off of the plane and to the university. Guilt. That was all I felt. Sal really loved me, and I ruined everything. As I was thinking, I got stopped by a girl who looked around my age.

"Hi! Are you Josephine? I'm your roommate, Sarah!" she screamed.

I nodded and she led me to our room. I didn't pay attention to anything, I just kept thinking about Sal. I'm having second thoughts about leaving him without telling him.

"Now that we're settled here, do you want to walk around a little bit?" Sarah asked.

I nodded and followed her out. We saw the classrooms, the quad, and basically covered the whole campus. Then, we went back to the entrance since we got lost.

"Hey, what's that about?" she asked, pointing her finger at a large crowd with their phones out.

I shrugged and we walked over to the mob. It was them. How and why are they here? I walked through the mob, pushing people out of the way. Before I knew it, I was standing in front of Sal. He didn't see me until I hugged him. I felt his tears falling onto my head. It felt so good to be in his arms. He left the mob and took me to the side.

"I wouldn't let you leave without saying goodbye to you first. I knew the whole time. I'm proud of you, sweetheart" Sal said, wiping tears from his eyes.

I smiled and handed him his notebook.

"I guess you forgive me after you read this. I really, really love you" he said.

I wanted to say it back, but no words came out. I was mute.

"Why aren't you speaking to me?" he asked.

I shrugged and I gave him a motion that asked, "Should I stay here?"

"Do you want to? I'll support whatever you choose, babe" Sal said.

I was about to answer when I felt familiar arms hug me from behind. Q, Murr, and Joe.

"Bye, sweetie. We'll miss you" Q said.

"She doesn't know if she wants to stay yet" Sal said.

"We'll leave you guys to it" Murr said.

The three of them left and I was with Sal.

"What's your choice?" Sal smiled.

I tried over and over again to have words come out of my mouth, but nothing worked. Finally, I used all of my strength to tell him.

"Let's go home, dad."