My leaf

The accident

The Tv was on on the BBC channel. I was so bored and hungry it was like the first time I was waiting dad with such amusement as he would buy pizza for dinner tonight .
I was laying on the sofa, which incidentally is the most comfortable sofa I have ever sit on, and my stomach was gurgling like it hasn't have before.
"Oh god mom where's dad I'm hungry." The last time I remembered my self eating that day was at the Morning when I ate a croissant from Mr.Stan's bakery at the next corner
"Dash I think you can wait a second. Dad has to have a lot of work as he hasn't arrive yet he must be driving to here." My mom was using her tablet to serf to the internet as next summer we would go a 5-day trip to Japan.She was so excited about this trip. Dad takes a five-day off to work every summer so we can go those cool trips. Last summer we went to Toronto,Canada and it was breathtaking.
I knew that all I had to do was wait and the food, and dad, would arrive home sometime. I was zapping on the Tv when the bell rang.
I jumped and ran through the door to open it but it was locked and I didn't have the keys with me.
"Mom! The keys! My food is waiting me where are they? " I said to mom and then he told they were on the table, the kitchen,without turning her eyes away of her tablet's screen.
I ran again at the kitchen to get the keys and then ran back to the main door of the house. I opened the door fast but there wasn't any dad out there but two cops with a file on their hands.
"Emm..Mom..two police officers are at the door and I think they want to talk to you." I told mom and now I was the one that didn't get his eyes away of something, in this case the two cops.
"Thank you boy now can you please go to the living room so as I can talk to your mom,please?" They seemed a bit worried. When mom came she told me to go to the living room and wait as she would speak to the cops.
I was waiting for like a quarter in the living room waiting for mom to come in and tell me what was going on and when I heard the door close and I stood up fastly.
I saw mom come in and she was worried
,too. She sit on the sofa and opened her mouth to talk but words wouldn't come out of her mouth. Now I was worried to..very worried. I sit on my knees in front of my mom and I asked her what had happened.
"You know Dash...dad...dad had a really bad car accident on his way to...to home..and now...now he is.." my mom couldn't talk from the cries. When I heard the words dad,bad and accident I stopped thinking of anything for like a minute or two and then I took a big breathing and asked my mom "...and he is what mom?".
My mom tried to take a breath too but he couldn't. "...Dash dad is in a very risky....a very risky situation...and now he must be at the intensive....Dash...I want you to be strong okey? If dad leave as... you still have me..."I was socked. I was left with an opened mouth,I was so socked I couldn't start crying, but deep inside I heard my heart breaking in one thousand pieces.
" And what are we doing here mom?! Dad needs as now, mom..dad now needs our help we need to go to the hospital." My mom had to start thinking and grab me from the hands and go together at the hospital but he just didn't had the strength to do it.
" You are right Dash lets go..." my mom told me and with a big hug we both stood up and walked to the door.
Mom open the door and I was behind her. She walk to the car and then he told me while she was touching her forehead " Oh my god Dash I forgot the car keys inside please go get them." I threw an okey and took the house keys from mom to go to the house. I opened the door with the keys and then I saw the car ones on the coffee table in the living room. I walk to there and grabbed the keys but when I turned around I saw.. DAD. He was staring at me and then he said "Goodbye Dash...I love you" and he left from the main door of the house. I was scared cause that was creepy.
I ran at the car where mom was waiting me and I gave her the keys, we get into the car and mom started driving. I remembered what I saw in the house but for a strange reason I couldn't told to her about this so I just asked her:
"Mom.."
" Yes Dash what is it?"she answered me.
" Dad will be okey, won't he?" I asked her with a worried in my voice.
" Yes Dash, dad will be okey." She answered me again but I knew that she didn't believe what she had just said we both knew that dad was past by now.
As we were getting closer to the hospital we saw some patrol cars run to a single direction. My mom knew where they were going and she started crying again but she wiped her tears from her cheeks with her white hand.
We got to the hospital and get to the reception. My mom asked about dad and they told as to wait at the sofas, in the waiting room of the hospital.
"Dash, do you want anything from the cafe?" My mom tried to calm for a sec.
" Yeah mom I would love to have something to eat I have to eat from morning." I asked my mom and then I saw her peaking up 5$ from her bag and gave it to me.
" Dash a cappuccino for me, okey?" She told me as I started walking to the stares and I saw her smiling at me. For a reason I think I was sad because of my moms sadness more than my thought that dads leaf had fallen from the tree right now.
  I went to the cafeteria of the hospital and as I ordered a cappuccino for mom and a cheese sandwich for me, I paid with the money mom gave me and then I walked to the door as to go back to the waiting room.
   I gave the coffee to mom and I sat down next to her. I  unwinded the sandwich and I took a bite.
   I saw a nurse walking past as and then she stoped right in front of us. She open her mouth and she started talking.
   "Ms.Taylor I have to inform you that there are two police officers that want to talk to you mis." She said and the mom looked at me and told me to wait there.
    When mom arrived she told me that my dad was actually gone now and she promised me that we will bit the world together without him but his soul will be always with as to protect as. I was no more socked than before as I kinda knew what will happen for the reason that I saw my dad goodbye me at the house a few hours ago. She also told me that the cops wanted to take her so as to show her something so she told me that I was going to return home and if I wanted some company I could call some of my " friends". I said okey and then we went to the car and then home, mom left me there and then she went to the police station.
   I was thinking of my dad all the time and the sentence "...if you want company you can call a friend of yours to come so you won't be alone." and  now I say that someone who just hung up with you sometimes and goes out with the rest of your "friends" but won't even think to tell you to join them just because he is a jerk won't come at your home at 01:00 AM at night.
   I heard the door open as I was sleeping at the sofa with the  remote control in my hand and the TV on.
   I saw mom come in with some bags from a 24/7 mini market at the next corner. Issa her placing them on the kitchen table and then she came at me. I woke up completely then. And she started talking me. My mom was always very honest with me and she wouldn't hide anything from me as I was no more a little boy I could understand and help her with whatever I could do that time.
   "Dash I need to talk to you.. the police officers told that in your dad's bank account has something that could help as..." my mom and my dad had always a standard, the standard that my mom had her things and my dad his they both had their cars and their bank account and the other one didn't snoop into the others jobs and stuff. So mom didn't know anything about my moms account by her eyes but by her husband mouth.
   And that now is the time that she found out that actually my dad lied to her. In his bank account he had 500,000 dollars and mom didn't know neither where  he found them nor why he didn't told it to her.
  I was socked...again! I just hugged my mom and we went to bed I don't know if mom slapped that night by. I am pretty sure that I didn't. The next days, weeks and months would be very difficult and I knew it but I was always prepared for difficult situations in my life.