Many days and nights went by, each passing getting a little worse. By this time I'm finishing my eleventh grade year, one year closer to my senior year. Me and Kristie have formed a strange bond, I wouldn't say mother, daughter, but more like close aquaintances. I could never form a solid bond with her after she broke my trust the first time. I would do typical things with her like ride with her to places and she would come to my school events sometimes. I always hoped Lu didn't show up. I had become ashamed of him, how he looked and how I viewed him. He was growing his hair out, from his head to his beard. His friends would tell him he needed a haircut, he didn't pay them no mind though. He was letting hisself go. I didnt care he was nobody to me, but a monster. I missed my grandma a lot. I ain't had nobody to look up to since she died. How was I gone turn out? Would I be anything like these people I'm around? I didn't see a good future for myself. I hate it here. I'm trapped, lost, and confused. Do all dad's act like this, is it normal? So many questions and no one to answer them.
It had came to a point when I was uncomfortable to even call him Dad, anything referring to him as the man who had a part in my existence. I started referring to him as simply Him. That became his name. He started to notice that I had stopped calling him Dad and didn't look at him no more. I just acted like he didn't exist. I didn't trust him at all, I couldn't even get it wrapped around my head how Kristie still could.
One day I overheard Kristie talking on the phone to someone about how she caught Lu doing something with Maliyah. I never knew who she was talking to. She was like that anytime something happened she would love to gossip, I didn't get it but that was just how she was. I couldn't believe what I just heard though. How could she let him go further? That's my little sister but that was her own offspring, still I seemed to care more about the situation. How far does he have to go to make her take him serious? He's a child predator, to his OWN children.
After Kristie was done on the phone I walked into her room, I didn't see Lu. I didn't hesitate to ask her what he did ? She told me she caught him watching porn with her. I wondered what she was gonna do about this situation. I mean she was the adult, but I knew if she didn't do anything I would. Anytime he did something like this I hated him a little more. Hate is a strong word, but I mean what I say.
About two weeks went by and Kristie did nothing. I decided to take matters into my own hands. He had to pay. One day I waited until Lu was gone and I pulled Kristie to the side. Even though she was older than me I seen her as younger. She couldn't even handle this situation, she never showed that she really cared anyway.
"If you don't do something about him I will, he's going too far I mean this is your child that he's doing this to. " I told Kristie.
"What do you want to do about this?" Kristie said. She also suggested to me that she was considering reporting him, but doing that I would have to testify in court.
Even though I wanted him to pay so bad, I was scared to look him in his eye and testify against him. What if he didn't get convicted and got to come back home? I know he would be mad at me. I had to make a choice. I thought it out and I came up with what I felt I was capable of doing. I thought it would just be so simple as me telling someone and they were gonna handle him.
"I want him to move away back to his hometown today or I'll be calling the police and I will testify if I have to." I told Kristie in a serious tone.
Lu was from down south not too far from my hometown, that's how he met my mama. It was a far drive from Fayetteville. She went on to call him to confront him about the situation and let him know the deal he had, get the hell away or he could go to jail for being a child molester. He took the easy way of course. Lu came to the house the next day to get his things, me and Maliyah went to Kristie's mom's house while he got all his stuff.
I wasn't going to miss him at all. I knew Maliyah would of course since she was young and unaware, all she knew was that was her daddy. I was so relieved when I got the news he was gone, a huge weight was lifted off of my shoulders. I thought I had finally been heard for once. After he left all of his friends and fake sisters were informed of what he had done. They couldn't believe he could do something like that, I could. He put up an act for everyone everywhere he went, he was nothing like he potrayed himself to others. I hated that. He fooled people so well, even his own parents. I could tell not everyone felt the same way I did about him though. Thinking of him made me feel very angry, angriness that elevated to a deeper feeling of hate. I felt like making him go away wasn't enough, but at least I could forget about him. I didn't have to see him anymore and be reminded of what kind of person he was. I still felt angry inside, a burning rage. To look at everyone around me and it still go unnoticed what he did. Even though he was gone no one cared, it was obvious. What he did he deserved to go to hell . There is no reason for him to look at his children in a sexual way anyway. It's just not right. Once I asked Kristie what happened to him, she said once he started popping pills he's never been the same since. Can jail change someone like this? He's been in and out, but I knew alot of people who've been to jail and they don't act like sexual maniacs towards their kids. Pills wasn't an excuse for me because no matter what you on you know who the fuck your child is! There was no excuse to cover up his sick ways, he was just sick. That's all.
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Behind Closed Doors
Short Story• Mature Content • • Completed • A small town girl is forced to move to the city after her grandmother passes and ends up in the hands of her father, someone who is a stranger to her. She is silenced by the abuse that is going on in her home an...
