The Bright Side

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Songs for this chapter:

"Someday -Nina"

"When I'm Gone -Eminem"

"All of Me -John Legend"

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"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Enjoy!
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I never, in my whole life, thought that I'll see my dad holding a gun. How did he even get one?

I stare at Ray, hoping that she'll feel my uneasiness and try to do something.

"I'm going to talk to him." I tell her and she nods. I was hoping she will come with me but I guess it's better that way.

I don't know why, but I feel sick. Like those sad butterflies are dancing in my stomach. This conversation won't end well.

"Dad?" I say the words as a whisper and he averts his eyes on me.

"Oh my baby girl." He slurs. I can smell the liquor on his breath.

"What are you doing here?" I ask. Suddenly, I realise the frightened girl standing next to him. She looks like she had seen a ghost. She's all pale and sad..

"Nothing. I'm with my wife." He replies and the "young" girl whispers something to me but I couldn't hear her. Maybe she said "please".

"Dad I can see the gun. You're in a public place, aren't you afraid? What's going on?" I ask again and he huffs in response. How can he be so calm about this?

"This is a toy." He replies smugly.

"So you don't mind if I take it from you?" I challenge him.

"God! Why are you being so annoying today?" He raises his voice

"Actually, my dad is holding a gun, in a public place, drunk and he has a young girl with him which happens to be his wife. Yeah I shouldn't be annoying, should I?" I say the words so quickly that I can't understand what I just said.

"Amelia, you don't want to see this. She fucking cheated on me with my bestfriend Louis. I can't just forget about your mom, and this new thing." He says and sadness is clear on his features.

He made this. He did this to himself.. He left us and thought that he'll find someone like me and mom.. Well, I guess he was wrong.

"Dad? What does that have to do with the gun? Are you that stupid to kill this girl for cheating on you?" I laugh and all of a sudden, courage is clear on his face. What is he thinking?

"Actually, no. You deserve a better father, your mom deserves a better husband and this girl deserves a guy who loves her unconditionally. I guess I'm not that man. I just want to die."

Oh my God he's so fucking drunk.

"Dad give me the gun. Please? You're drunk and this will only lead to bad things." I try to convince him but I guess he is way too drunk to hear me.

Maybe I should take it from him.

"Amelia!! Stop it. What are you doing?!" He says. I didn't even realise that I attacked him. What the..

"Please leave it." I plead.

"Someone please help us." I hear everyone shouting but all I could put my mind on, is the fact that someone was shot.

I look all over my body and I see lots of blood. It's not my blood.

It's my father's.

I just shot my father.

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It seemed like she was helping him. She thought that she could put an end to this chaos.

But darling, you have to know that at some point, all we have to do is to distance ourselves. Yeah, we have to go away, just to see where life will put us through.

Sometimes, you don't have to help someone to get through his problems, but actually, you have to let him fight for himself, just to learn from his mistakes.

Amelia thought that by interfering, she could save her father. She didn't know that she can't fix a broken soul. Her father was already dead from his constant drinking, from his miserable life and from working with a group of gangsters.

She just thought that only by taking the thing that kills, she could save him. But eventually, she'll realise that her father is "The Thing That Kills", not the gun.

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A/N: Sorry for taking too much time to update. I was busy in my studies and I passed the exams so now I can update like I used to do before.

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