My Internetainer

Christmas Break

-Come here you.

Rhett screams and sprints down the stairs to catch me. My parents where in the kitchen and witnessed the whole thing, and smiled to each other. I run to the living room and get behind the couch but I'm too slow, he grabs me by the waist and pulls me closer to his chest. He starts tickling me making me squeal and laugh hard. Suddenly my mum tells us to be quiet as she answers the phone.

-Hello, Mum, it's you? Why are you calling, it has to be around 3. am there.

In the next few seconds her skin got pale. Fear and devastation flooded her eyes and she fainted in Rhett's arms. My dad came in the room and placed her on the couch worried.

-What's wrong darling, what happened? Wake up.

She opened her eyes and hides her face in his shoulder. He hugged her tight and kissed her hair.

-He is dead.

She whispered between her whines.

-My father is dead, he died in his sleep. He is gone, what am I going to do?

My father's eyes watered, he rested his chin on her head, stroking her back. My grandpa was dead? I froze in my position with my eyes locked on something far away. Tears tickled my eyes and I did nothing to hold them back. It was a silent cry of true sadness, I felt like my whole soul melted and liquefied, that's how much my tears were burning my face. Rhett wiped them and embraced me in his arms. I didn't hug him back I just hold my hands to my chest to feel the security he offered me, the comfort and the warm he meant to me.

My tears wet his shirt in no time. He and my dad didn't really know what to do, how to calm us down. He took phone and called my grandmother again.

-When?

He asked.

-Okay we will be there.

He hangs up and continues shaking my mum like a baby in his strong arms.

-We are going to Greece tomorrow.

-No we are not.

I snapped making the three of them look at me.

-I'm not going back. I can't deal with this, I don't want to remember my grandfather dead, I don't want a funeral to be my last memory. I'm not coming, I won't.

I shouted, run in my bedroom and locked the door behind me. I fell flat in my bed and cried loud. Desperately. After a while I heard a knock.

-Babe?

It was Rhett.

-Do you want to be alone?

-Yes Rhett please.

I whispered and heard him leaving.

I had been crying for hours before my dad knocked.

-Darling, can you open please?

I unlocked the door and collapsed into his arms.

-I have packed mine and your mother's stuff, we are leaving in the night, I booked the tickets. Are you sure you want to stay here? We might spend the whole holidays there.

-I didn't want to return like that and I don't want to see grandpa de-

A cry escaped my lips and I held him tighter.

-Go get some sleep. If you are asleep when we leave I will call you from the airport. Please take care of yourself.

I nodded lifeless and got under my sheets again. At some point I managed to cry myself to sleep.