Broken Promises

Chapter 4- The Reply

It's been a couple weeks since I sent the letter to my father and there had been no response until this morning when I checked my letterbox. I didn't want to read it at all, so it was shoved at the bottom of all these papers on my desk after working on an assignment. I was doing an online writing course that goes over the period of 4 weeks and in the first week, I was issued an assignment that involves how children's minds are different from adults. I found it fascinating, how children's minds develop in stages. That humans, have to use their brains first before they can take a step, as their mind says to do so. Anyways, the letter haunted my mind at the moment. And I needed to know the answer to that question. Which probably wasn't a good one. I was scared to open it. But I did anyways.

Dear Kate,
To answer you, again, I apologise. I'm very sorry for leaving you. You didn't deserve that. You didn't deserve the pain I caused you at all. Nor did your mother. I left you because I was no longer happy. Your mother and I's relationship was bad a few months before I left. I didn't love her anymore. I'm sorry. I still wish that I contacted you sooner, but I've been very busy.

Sincerely
Your father, Jonathan Lowe.

My cheeks flushed red in anger. My tear stained eyes were stinging from trying to claw their way out. I felt hurt. I felt betrayed. I felt used. My own father left my mother and I to fend for ourselves. He just packed up and left because he "didn't love her anymore." Felt like a blade to my heart. He's been "very busy."
My insides churned inside my stomach. I wanted to throw up. My father left me. My father didn't contact me, for nine years. Until now. And now, seems far too late. I thought that as a father you were supposed to protect your daughter from any pain and getting her heart-broken. Not be the cause of it. But that's me. That's my life. My life is a mess.