five years later:
Yes my father had died, but I didnt know that. I've spent countless hours sitting next to him, telling him that its ok, moms only pretending. but my dad and I tried going out into the world, why couldnt anyone else see him? Why did everyone tear up when they saw me?
We figured it out. Because dad was only there for me. I can still remember his face when we walked into the crouded street, and people zoomed by passing through him like air. That was the first time i ever saw my dad cry, the tears falling off his cheeks as he looked at his hands that only existed to us.
Every night he'd lay next to my sleeping mother, or watched her cry over his picture when she thought I was sleeping.
I couldnt come to terms with the fact that only I could be with him. If she realy truley belived, mom would see him too. "Mom look hes right there, hes right infront of you! He is, if you just belive!".
My family kept sending me to see people about my "hallucination". Each person was dumfounded on how to "cure" me. Mom gave up on the sessions.
She got fired from her job because she couldnt focus, stopping in the middle of her work to try and stop herself from making a sceen. At home I didnt help, all I would try to do is make her see her newly departed husband. The stress from our money problems and from her child who claims to see the dead and everyone asking her questions, she just stopped answering them. She stopped speaking all together, ever sence then she hasnt spoken a word, has never tried to comunicate at all.
When I reached eleven I got a job delivering newspapers. I had to make money to buy food, the government didnt start taking our taxes till I turned fourteen, giving us mourning time.
They couldnt find out what happened to my mom, I'd be sent to foster care, along with my dad who I know would come with me.
He has been a real help, getting money, teaching me about life. Thanks to him we can live off minimum wage working at starbucks. Together we can pay the taxes and take care of my mom.
Without him I'd been lost.
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Paranormalwhen Hanna is ten her father dies, but never left. He walks on the earth with Hanna as the only one who can see him. With the loss of her love Hanna's mother loses the ability to speak and work. Alone she has to take care of her and the spirits that...
