The Best and the Hardest Thing

Messed up

Same day

We were sitting in the dinning room of my parents house, for dinner upon my moms request. Lily was oddly shy and ate silently whereas jack looked out of place and was moving his food around the plate. 

"can you please cut my sausage" Lilly asked 

"sure honey" mom replied 

"I want Dana to do it" mom looked sad and went back to moving her food around her plate as well. This was turning out to be an awkward dinner. 

I cut Lily's sausages and got back to actually eating my food. Recently I've began to feel hungry at all sorts of times. I woke up at three in the previous night craving fish sticks and custard so casey went to the shops and came home to  prepare some for me. Boy was i lucky he was my baby daddy

"so, are you keeping it?" dad pipped from the head of the table motioning his fork at my bump. 

"what do you think?" I snapped. I felt Casey's hand on my thigh, it was as if he was telling me to call down. 

"well you realise that your both throwing your future away" he began 

"we plan on having our futures together, we will take one step day by day just as long as we have each other and our little angel" casey informed him as he looked me in the eyes and smiled. 

"cut the sob story, we all know that your gonna cop off somewhere as soon as that child is born leaving my daughter and that bastard, it's not as if your married or better yet engaged" my dad began yelling. I rubbed caseys back trying to relieve his anger as his fists tensed into balls of fury. 

"actually,we already have our own home and we are engaged, didn't mom tell you about the proposal at graduation three weeks ago?" I asked flashing him my engagement ring. 

He began to look sheepish and my mom began to blush 

"I was gonna tell you honey, it's just that you've been so busy and travelling all the time so we never actually got to talk." she started

"well I don't take back what I said about casey and that thing inside you" my dad yelled furiously getting up and walking out of the dining room, closely followed by casey.

" I think we should be going now, thanks for dinner, but I don't think we should do it anytime soon... again" I said to my mother as I picked a tired lily from her seat. My mom looked at the ground and nodded, she looked so sad and  but i was hopless as to what to do.

"Maybe just maybe we can get a coffee at that little cafe downtown that you used to take me to as a kid? Just the two of us" I asked putting on a smile

"I'd love to!" she smiled as her eyes lit up

"I'll text you" 

"perfect with me" she grinned

I walked out the dinning room to find casey and my dad rowing in the foyer, where once stood a glass vase, sat a family photo taken in the costa rica just after Lily's first birthday.

"you call my kid a bastard again and I won't be responsible for my actions" casey was fuming  

"Bastard" my dad whispered as he chuckled.

Casey punched him square in the nose and you could hear the crack as his nose broke and blood began to gush. I put lily down and ran to casey to calm him down.even-though my dad really deserved what he got.  

"you're the bastard" jack shouted from across the room at our dad. He then slowly walked up to him and spat on him as he lay wounded on the floor.  

*Crash, crash,crash" 

My dad tripped jack up and he went falling backwards on the stair and banging his head then he hit the floor. next thing I saw was jack laying motionless on the floor next to our father and the photo frame from the table fall and break into a million little peices just like a respresentation of our family

"Jack!" I screamed running to his side, I checked his pulse, it was too weak. Mom was on the phone ringing for an ambulance and casey was tending to a now weeping Lily (see picture) How could my family be so messed up?