Hard To Believe

Chapter 10

As I reached home, I changed and met dad in the kitchen while grabbing a cold pepsi. He was acting a little too weird, or a little too cheery I may say for a person who has been depressed. I avoided the fact thinking that he may finally be coming out of depression and sat on the couch while watching my missed episode of Teen wolf. As I'm sipping on my coke and munching on some potato chips, the doorbell rings and I hear sirens from a police car. A sudden fear started crawling up my spine.

"OPEN UP, or we will break your door," said the cops. I looked around and couldn't see my dad anywhere. He's really fast and quiet for someone that big...

Kia's dad P.O.V

My heart jumped as soon as I heard the sirens. I felt sweat running down my neck like a waterfall. I couldn't let Kia see me like this. I can't ruin the "jolly old papa," picture that Kia has of me.

When the cops yelled to let them in, Kia was frozen in place staring at her feet. Perfect, I can quickly sprint to my room and you know, fix things up a bit.

I quickly throw away the bed sheets and fix up the bathroom. Luckily just before Kia opened the door I was able to rush into the living room worriedly. There were about 3 police officers and one lady officer. They all seemed really fed up. The two male cops put handcuffs on dad. "You are under arrest for sexual assault,"said the lady officer. I could see the disbelief in Kia's eyes.

Kia's P.O.V

I had no words to say. I saw the police officers advance forward towards my dad as he looked to me with an unreadable expression, he didn't fight, just took a step back as he looked me in the eyes and said "don't worry honey, I'm going to get out of this, nothing's gonna happen, it's probably just a misunderstanding", and they left with that. I ran after the car screaming and telling the police officers to stop and that my dad's innocent, but they told me to step away from the car and wait home as a relative would come. As I saw everyone leave I felt a rush of tears coming. I'm trying to think about the situation and I'm pretty sure it's all a lie, I mean my dad would never do something like that. It was probably a business rival trying to trap him or someone taking advantage of his niceness. As I lay on the couch unable to decipher on what I should do next, I hear the door knock and I quickly get cautious of my surroundings. As I slowly proceed to the window to get a glimpse of the intruder of my thoughts, I'm met by a familiar feminine figure.It was quite hard to see what was behind her as it was as dark as coal and my head whips up to the clock. It read 1:48, and my eyes land to the family photo nearby, only to see a picture of the same women outside, and my alarm goes down. As I walk to the door I hear her say "Kia! Honey, it's Aunt Jennifer outside, I'm on the phone with Officer Parrish" once I'm convinced this is my aunt, I go open the door, and she's standing there with a sad smile. The same smile and grief filled, reassuring eyes, I was met by last year at my mother's funeral.

I looked at her then looked down and plopped back down on the couch. She looked sadly at me as she sat beside me and said "I know this is hard for you, it's hard for me too, finding out your father was charged for sexual assault was very hard to take, along with the air sickness I got from getting the fastest ticket I could find from Australia to here" she added with a chuckle. Then she continued to say "Just listen, I'm always going to be here for you, your like the daughter I never had, and trust me Tristen is a devil in the body of a three year old." I let out a small noise in recognition to her little joke and to assure her that I was listening and said "I.. really don't think now's the time to talk, I'm sorry Jen but I think it would be better if I went to sleep" as I walked up to my room and turn back to look at her, to be met with another pitiful look on her face.

The next morning, I wake up as early as possible and got ready to go get my dad. My aunt had gotten a call from the police station saying dad was proven innocent because of no evidence found and because of the town DSP it went something like the Deputy superintendent of police, but yeah, apparently dad knew him very well. I had a huge smile on my face as I went into the Police station, there my dad was, with tired looking eyes but a grin on his face. I considered that a little odd but ignored it and ran to him. "DAD!"i screamed as I ran to him and hugged him. "Kia, darling, oh I was dead worried about you, luckily Jen was there to help you, and don't worry, we can all go home now, it was all just a big mistake" he said as we started leaving after he smiled at the officer giving him a suspicious look. As soon as i heard that there was no problem, I was ecstatic. Once we had all gone home, we went out to a restaurant and as soon as I reached there, I devoured the chicken ribs and all of the really good items. Soon enough after pigging out on all of the food items in the buffet, I had to use the washrooms to wash my hands.

As I stepped inside, I ran across Lydia, and she was giving me a grim look with sad eyes. "You, this all happened because of your father's dirty intentions, he raped my mother and then claims to have never even see her in his life and also gets rid of the evidence...and that corrupt DSP helped him too!" she said, I stepped back, shocked after hearing all of that, I was surprised, I can't believe it was Lydia's mom who accused my dad of raping her. While looking for words, I slowly say "Listen, Lydia, I seriously don't think my dad is like that, he would never do something like that, he has only loved and wanted my mother even after her death. I'm not saying the intentions of your mother are wrong, but I'm surely not saying that their right either". She looked at me with a red face and blew out the breath she had been holding in as a teardrop rolls down her eye, "my mom would never lie, heck my dad just died a month ago, do you seriously think my mom would trap someone, one month after? All I wanted to say was you have faith in your dad and I have faith in my mom, lets see whos right, this morning when I heard my mom sobbing in her room after she heard that her raper's accuses had been dropped, I went to go find evidence. You're dad claimed that he has never seen my mom but I have the school's video surveillance of your dad having a conversation for roughly five minutes with her." I was extremely shocked as she said all of that, I remember Dad claiming that he never saw her in his life, but after watching the video Lydia showed me, I'm seriously having suspicions. "Ok, so what do you want me to do?" I said, shocked from myself at the fact that I'm actually helping her out. "All i want you to do is tomorrow night, put this mixture which is called Sodium Thiopental into your dad's drink and then I'll place a camera in his room and we'll see what happens the next morning." she said, for a second I was actually impressed by her idea but then quickly wanted to know of it would affect my dad's health. As if she could read my mind, she quickly replied saying "No, it won't hurt him in anyway, all it does is slows the speed at which your body sends messages to your spinal cord, and it alters your mind to telling the truth, it comes out on its own, it's like he's revealing all of the stuff kept inside of him" she said. I suspiciously looked at the powder she was handing me and I asked "How is this going to benefit me?" she looked at me and confidently said " First, we will be able to find out if he's actually guilty or not, then if he isn't you'll be able to know how he feels and what he's been keeping from you". I soon gave into her idea and walked back out of the washroom and say my dad and Jen getting ready to leave. "Took you a while in there Kia" said Dad, "Yeah, got a little water on my shirt was attempting to dry it off" I said with a small smile.

Once we reached home from the car ride that took about 15 minutes but felt way longer, Jen spoke up and said " Ok guys, since everything's back to normal, I guess I'll be leaving now, but I decided to stay for 2 weeks and tour around so I'll just live in the hotels, my tour bus will be leaving tomorrow morning at 5 in the morning so I better get to bed, bye!". Before she ran up the stairs, she came to me and said "Kia, honey, no matter what, I'm always there for you, anything happens give me a call or anything and I will be right by your side."

I gave dad a small smile and ran upstairs and went to sleep, eagerly waiting for tomorrow night.

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I was getting really impatient and like I was literally on my laptop doing nothing so I decided to just put chapter 10 up too, Screw that one chapter a day thing, Imma post whenever I feel like it! ;)