Living fantasies

chapter III

We start school tomorrow. My mama wasted no time getting us enrolled. I was tryna sleep, and I see this shadow hovered over me. Its Cali . " Cali, what are you doing?" I checked my clock. "Its 3:43 in the morning. Why you up?" She jus looked at me and I can tell she been crying.

Cali: " Ken, I'm scared of school tomorrow."

I faced her. "Come here princess. Everything is gonna  OK. Kindergarten ain that bad, I promise. At least you don't have to go to big school like me and Rook." I tickled her.

Cali:"stop it!" She screams and laughs. "Can I lay with you until I fall back to sleep?"

"Yea, but stay on your side."

She hopped in and snuggled in the covers. I told y'all its hard to say no to her.

Cali: " Kenny?"

Me: " Cali, I said go to sleep"

Cali:" what was daddy like?"

I froze. That was unexpected. See when our dad died, Cali was only 6 months old. So she only seen pictures and never really had a relationship with him. I was 12, and Rook was 9. So we remember him way more than she does.

"Um, he was cool. He always was saving people."

Cali:" like superman?"

"I guess you can say that. He would help a lot of people who didn't have homes and he loved mommy and us, but you the most." I touched her nose.

Cali:" really?". Her eyes widened.

"(Lol) yea man. He loved his little Cali. You know he named you?"

Cali:" he did? I thought mama did. Where did he get my name from?"

"Well dad's from California, so he made your first name California and your middle name is Rose-Dream. Because you were always red like a rose and he had a dream that you were coming, before mama even had you."

Cali:"wow. I never knew that Kenny"

"Yea ik. But you have to get sleep now, we have school in the morning." I kissed her forehead and turned over. I knew it would've been a matter of time she asked about dad. Well I should try to get some sleep for this big day tomorrow.