Running from my Stalker

10

"Amelia?!" I heard someone say. I looked up from my mug.

"Dad!" I yelled. I got up from my seat and put my mug on the coffee table. "What?! I... I thought..."

"Oh my god! What are you doing here?" he said clearly as shocked as I was.

"I could ask you the same thing?" I said back

We just stood there staring at each other. I was a bunch of emotions at the same time and all while Shannon was looking back and forth between my father and me. I didn't know what to do.

"What am I looking at?" asked Shannon

"That's my dad" I said "I haven't seen my dad in 10 years"

"Oh my god, you never told me about her" said Shannon sternly.

"Alexa go to your room" said dad

"What! Why?" wined Alexa

"I'll go with you Alexa" I said

"Yay!" she squealed as she took my hand and guided me up to her room. She had a small room with LOTS of pink. She brought me over to a small toy box and picked out two Barbie dolls and went to sit on the little rug in the middle of her room. I went to sit down with her and she passed me one of the dolls and said.

"Mummy and dada fight all the time" the happiness she had before had faded away and now she was full of sadness.

"They do?" I said back in a soothing voice "It's okay Alexa. My mum and dad fought all the time. You know what I did when they were fighting?"

"Yea" she said back to me

"I grabbed my favourite teddy bear and hugged her really, really tight and I prayed" I said

"Prayed?" she questioned as she got up from her little spot on the rug and over to her bed and grabbed a teddy off her bed. "Yeah, like if you really wanted something you would put your hands together like this" I stopped and clasped my hands together "Then you close your eyes and say, I pray that mum and dad will stop fighting, and that teddy will keep me warm and that it will get better soon"

"Okay" Alexa closed her eyes and repeated what I had said. When she opened her eyes she looked happy again as she started playing with her dolls with her little teddy. I stayed quite as she played and I listened to the fight going on down stairs...

"Oh my god" I heard Shannon say "Why didn't you tell me that you had a kid! A kid with someone else!"

"You didn't need to know, I didn't want to tell you because I didn't want to lose you!" I scoffed at that comment. Maybe that could have been the same when he was MY dad.

I stopped listening to the conversation when I got a text. I looked at it

Hey! I'm outside I think could you come out?

Sure, I'll be out in a sec.

"Hey Alexa?" I said

"Yeah?" she said

"My rides here I have to go" I went to go stand up "I'll go tell your mum and dad okay?"

"Aww" Alexa wined

I walked out the door and down the stairs.

"Hey!" I had to yell

"Amelia!" Shannon said "Are you okay?"

"Yeah" I sighed "Well Logan's here, I'm gonna head off I guess"

"Okay sweet, bye" waved Shannon

"Bye" I waved back