WHEN DADDY LEFT

Ethan

        Anthony's POV(3months later)

I still can't believe that a single lie can change someone's life a lot.

How a lie can undo someone's life completely.
How a lie can raise someone's hopes to the sky only to have them tumble down into pieces.

How this same lie can make you give up on something just because you want to keep the one you already have.

But of all things how this same lie can completely suck the air out of you.

How a lie can make your family fall apart in disappointment.

How it can make you realize how betrayed you are.

And finally how it makes you realize you are LATE.

Because yes I'm late.

Too late to run back to the past and too late to focus on the present because its ruined.

Too late to go back to Y'vania and my baby.

At some point in life I had learnt to accept Kara into my life just to make everyone happy everyone including me. I had accepted to forget about Y'vania and my baby just to make Kara happy. My baby who is now seven months old. I haven't laid my eyes on them ever since the day we met at the park.

Sam went back home and started talking about Y'vania's baby at the dinner table. She went on and on about how the baby looked exactly like me in my baby photos and my mother got angry. She called me later on and told me to stop confusing my sister with my stupidity. She told me not to break Kara's heart. She told me that she never wants to hear the name Y'vania in her house.

Kara was mad at me too because I saw Y'vania. I listened. They were right at that moment. I had to focus on my fiancee and my upcoming baby and not Y'vania who is someone's wife.

Kara. The woman who prepared me into fatherhood just to leave me with an empty room, an empty crib and an empty heart.
A heart that was prepared to accept my baby.

Whoever is there listening to my thoughts. Just imagine this:

Waking up knowing that in the next twenty four hours you're going to be a daddy. Dressing up for work with so much enthusiasm,reporting to work earlier just to check up on your wife in the delivery room, going on with your work in very high spirits waiting for the call. You get it two hours later and you run faster than fast help her bring your angel to the world then a few hours later some guy in designer clothes comes in and claims he's the father not you.

Joke right?

A big fat joke indeed.

In fact you laugh out loud double check with the authority and mental doctors ensuring that none of their patients ran out and in the middle of doing that a fight knocks in and when you're about to knock the life out of that lunatic the mother confesses the truth.

You wanna know what the fucking truth is?

"Honey am so sorry but my parents forced me into this and I had to pin the baby on you but he's the father."

Honey.

Forced.

Not the father.

This three things broke me apart.