Chapter Fifteen- Nothing

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Chapter Fifteen - Nothing

I woke up early next morning because Grandpa was coming over for a visit.

“How are you sweetie?” asked grandpa when he arrived.

Everyone kept asking me that and I would always give the same answer.

“Okay.” I said giving a forced smile.

“I’m here now. You can go get breakfast at the food court. Here, take this.” He said handing over a twenty dollar note.

I was hesitant at first but eventually agreed. I reluctantly entered the food court only to see Megan, Shane and Trent sitting at one of the tables.

Meg’s eyes met mine and she gave me a sad smile. All of them got up and walked towards me, sympathy clear in their eyes.

They didn’t say anything, they just hugged me.

While eating breakfast which was really hard to digest, we made small talk.

They had come here at night but since visiting hours were over, they weren’t allowed in so they slept in the car.

We headed for dad’s room but dad wanted to talk to Grandpa alone.

We sat outside with my head on Meg’s shoulder. I zoned out, I had been doing that a lot lately.

I was brought back to reality when I saw a cup of coffee being offered to me by Chase.

“Hi” I said getting up to greet him.

He gave me a long hug and then sat with the other guys.

After a while I was called inside along with the others.

“Gweneth!” He said smiling. He looked so tired and weak that it broke my heart.

“Good morning dad”

“Don’t you have a swimming meet to go to?” He asked.

With so much going on that was the last thing on my mind and yet he remembered.

“No dad. I umm don’t feel like going.” I replied.

“You should go Gweneth. I don’t want to hold you back.”

“You aren’t dad!” I went closer to him and continued.

“Trust me; I really want to be here. I don’t care about some swimming tournament. I care about you. There will be other opportunities but I have only one father and I want to go through this with you.” I said tears forming in my eyes.

“I love you for that sweetie, but I will feel much better if you went.”

“But dad-“

“Gwen, it will hardly take an hour. It’s finals and your team needs you. You should never forget that in life. You should try and not let anyone who counts on you down.”

“Alright dad, I’ll go.” I said hugging him.

“I’ll drop you. If we leave in a while, we will be right in time for it.” Said Trent.

“Yeah, okay. I’ll just get my stuff from home and-“

“Don’t worry about that. Janine will be here any minute with it. She really likes you Gwen, take care of your sister, always.”He said smiling.

“I will dad. Why don’t you guys wait out till she comes?” I said to the others.

“You are going to do amazing things Gweneth.”Dad said taking my hand in his.

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