i sat across the dining table from my father, picking at the eggs and bacon sitting on the plate. i've been in new york for three days, this time being the first time i got to properly see my father since.
"your aunt danielle should be here soon.." he broke the silence, swirling the whiskey in his cup. i nodded, dropping my fork - upset with his choice of drink so early in the morning. the passing of my mother pushed him into being a workaholic and when he wasn't occupied with work, he was drinking religiously.
"excuse me" the chair scraped the floor as i got up to leave the room; making my way upstairs, taking two steps at a time. i flopped onto my bed, looking around the room that i grew up in. reminiscing on every single change that the room went through along with me.
my eyes landed on an old scrapbook lying on my bedside table. the beige color slightly faded, my fingers ran over the cursive writing on the cover. nostalgia hit me, the memories of adding to the scrapbook that was once my moms flooding into my brain.
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kyle and henny || august 3, 1997
tears brimmed my eyes when i opened to the first page, seeing the happiness and carelessness on my father's face — something that i would now only ever see once in a blue moon. i flipped through the pages, happy and sad tears rolling down my face as i looked through the little glimpses of my parents youth.
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kyle and meredith || new year's eve 2004
the tears came like a waterfall when i came across the picture of our last new years as a family. obviously, everything was kind of fuzzy because i was only five. but the moments that mattered were the ones engraved in my brain. we were celebrating at a party at my aunt danielle's house in north carolina — my hair was in piggy tails and i wore a sequin dress. a minute before the countdown i snatched a disposable camera that was laying around and just as my parents kissed to ring in the new year, i snapped the photo.
