The Healer

Kaiser

After school I went and sat by the pond. I knew Melody didn't mean the things she said but some of the things she said weren't completely false. I was lonely, my dad was all I had, or at least all I felt I truly had. He understood me like nobody else did, he cared for me he gave me hope but most of all he gave me love. Melody is the first person to show me that although my dad gave me those things he gave me other things as well. He gave me sadness, he gave me loss of hope, he gave me abandonment. All this time I thought to myself he stopped writing letters cause he was dead or caught up in something that wouldn't let him reach out to me. But I knew it wasn't that, I knew one day he just felt it was easier to disappear so that's what he did. It's time to move on and focus on myself not what my dad would have done or wanted. Stuck in my thoughts I was caught off guard when someone set a plastic box of cupcakes in my lap. I looked up, "Melody?" I said surprised. "look, I'm sorry about before" she said sitting down. "But you need to stop prying in my life, you will know what you need to know and you need to leave it like that. And for the record being lonely isn't a bad thing being lonely is only as sad as you make it" she said. I nodded she turned and kissed me on the cheek, "see you tomorrow" she said and walked away. That was the softest version of Melody I had ever seen. I knew her life was complicated but I didn't know to what degree not till the next day anyway.