And In Comes Love

01 | dépaysement

dépaysement - when someone is taken out of their own familiar world into a new one.

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"I don't want to stay here, Mom" I whisper - yelled into the phone.

When my mother said that I was going to stay with my father for a little while I thought she meant for a week. Certainly not the rest of my senior year which had started three months ago.

"Didn't you say you wanted to spend some time with your dad?" My mother questioned over the phone. The minute my father confirmed that he could take me my mother had packed non-stop and bought me the earliest flight.

"I meant that I could spend some time with him back home in Michigan, Mom, not in Florida", I said from my spot on the floor since all the chairs were currently taken, "When I said I wanted you to have a life I meant a life for the weekend not for seven months".

You see, my mother apparently took my advice when I told her that she should go out and have some fun because she's always working. I thought that she would call off for the weekend and go to Vegas. What I didn't think was that she going to book a European tour. Silly me.

And my father was a whole other problem.

At the ripe age of ten my father and mother had decided that being together was no longer an option with the amount of arguing and fighting that they did. And at ten I was okay with that. Being the only child of divorced parents had once been fun, it was double the birthday gifts, double the Christmas gifts, and double the amount of food I got to ate on thanksgiving break.

But once I hit my teens my father started coming around less and less. And now at seventeen I never saw him. Which is why I wanted him to come to Michigan.

"Mom, what about school? It's my senior year, you really can't expect me to join in November when school just started in August, right?", My mother had once said that if I could make a compelling case that I could convince her to do anything, "I mean I just started applying to colleges and everything saying that I lived in Michigan"

Apparently it didn't work in these kinds of situations.

"You're finishing school in Florida, Nova Ellison McCoy and that's final." My mother scolded, finally giving me attention. "Your father should be at the airport any second now".

All I could do is mumble a number of curse words under my breath and do as she asked because true to her word my father or at least a man who looked decently like the man I remembered came speeding down the terminal.

"Dad?" I questioned, because you can never be too sure. I mean sure the man looked like me, we shared the same dark hair and hazel eyes, but what stopped him from being my uncle or a man really good at being someone's face and body double.

"Well if it isn't my Supernova!" the mysterious man now confirmed as my father said coming in for a hug that lasted way too long for my liking. Supernova was technically supposed to be my name but after questioning looks from other parents they had shortened it to Nova. Both my parents had way too big of an interest in astronomy.

"Are you excited!?" He asked grabbing my abundance of luggage. He was way more upbeat then I remembered him to be. The dad I knew was more like me cynical. This Florida environment had to be dealt with cautiously because I seriously did not want to end up like him seven months from now.