Head B*tch In Charge

The Return

As Lisa began to open her eyes, she looked up and saw a white background with the familiar face looking down at her calling her name.

“LISA.” “LISA.”

‘Am I in heaven?’ She thought. ‘This can’t be real.’

When she finally came to, she was now in her living room lying on the couch with a wet cloth on her forehead.  She immediately jumped up, but that was a bad decision.  The room was spinning and she had a terrible headache.

“You should lay back down princess. You took a hard fall.”

Lisa spun around quickly to look at the man that voice belonged too.

Instead of being happy to see the man whom she thought was dead, she was filled with questions, but most importantly, anger.

“HOW DARE YOU!” “WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE WALTZING IN HERE AFTER ALL THESE FUCKING YEARS, CALLING ME PRINCESS?!?”

“Lisa. I can understand why you are mad, but just let me explain.” He stated calmly.

“YOU UNDERSTAND? LET YOU EXPLAIN? THERE IS NOTHING FOR YOU TO EXPLAIN! HOW CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE SHIT THAT YOU PULLED? AND ON MY FUCKING BIRTHDAY?”

Lisa’s mind raced back to her 16th birthday.

There was a gold envelope with my name on it in the back seat. Still

surprised and excited, I ripped open the envelope and inside I found the title to the car with my name

on it, a birthday card with written words "Enjoy your night" AND $5,000. The last thing was a tape

attached to a note that said "sorry I had to do this, but know that I will always love you, take care of your

mom for me." - Daddy.

Luckily for Lisa, the party was over by the time she received her last gift. Everyone left and she and her mother went home. The pained expression remained on her mother’s face as Lisa made her way to her bedroom to watch the tape that was in the envelope. On the tape she saw her father sitting in a chair in front of a camera. The room was unfamiliar to her. He first stated that he loved her and was happy of the woman that she was becoming. He reminisced about all the time they spent together and how she would forever be his princess. Lastly, he told her that he was very sick with cancer and that he didn’t know how long he had left to live, but he didn’t want her nor her mother to see him whither away. He wanted them both to remember him how he was. He told her to always remember two things, you are loved and you are strong. ‘Those two things will help you overcome anything’………….

“Lisa.” Her father called out her name.

She finally came out of her trance and remembered why she went back down memory lane.

“Lisa. I know I lied to you and I hurt you, but there was a reason for it all! If I didn’t do those things…”

She cut him off. “If you didn’t do those things you could have been around to see youR only child grow up! If you didn’t do those things you could have been a husband to your wife! If you didn’t do those things maybe my mother would still be here!”

Lisa broke down crying and before her “father” could console her, she opened her door and told him to get out. She could tell he didn’t want to leave. She could also tell that he was hurting too, but his hurt in her eyes, didn’t compare to her magnitude of hurt. She was the child and he was the parent. He should have done things differently.

After he left, Lisa began to cry again. Her doorbell rang and she walked up to the door, yanked it opened and yelled “didn’t I tell you to go away!?!”

It wasn’t her father this time, it was Derrick.

Why he was here she did not know, but she was happy that she didn’t have to be alone, especially with everything that just happened. He looked at her with a baffled expression and asked what was wrong. She broke down crying and he hugged her tightly and took her inside the house.