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It was Remembrance Day today, it was tradition to write letters to your lost loved ones and then scatter them throughout the cemetery. I only wrote two letters on remembrance day it used to be only one for uncle stefan but after aunt Hayley passed I wrote to her as well. Kaiara wrote to dad, uncle Stefan and aunty Hayley although she never let go of the letters she wrote to dad. She didn't know that I knew but she had a box hidden in our room, and each year she put dads letter in the box, I don't know what she was saving them for but I didn't ask her about it because I guess she wanted to keep it private.
Kaiara mom and I had our own tradition on Remembrance Day, we wouldn't see mom for the first half of the day because she had a lot of letters to write, she wrote to a lot of people like; her parents, her aunt Jenna, dad obviously, uncle stefan, aunt Hayley, uncle Enzo, uncle tyler and uncle Nik and Elijah, but after a visit to the cemetery we'd spend the night in her room where we'd drink hot chocolate and share stories about loved ones, mom did this to keep the memory of the lost alive.
Since we were pretty young when uncle stefan died mom was the reason we remembered him. Kaiara's favourite moment of the night was hearing about moms stories with dad.
I look down at the paper on my desk and sigh, 'dear dad, I never usually write to you so I don't know why am I today, but I felt like it so here it goes. I think I've spent so long being angry at you because you're not here, I guess it's easier to hate you than you miss you, how can you miss someone you've never met? You know I pretend that I'd never want to meet you but that's a lie, I would want to meet you more than anything, I've wanted to meet you since I was a kid. I'm sorry dad, I don't hate you, I just don't know what to do with myself, I'm broken and I guess it's easy to blame that on you as well, but I know that I can be fixed, I just don't know how, I can't do it alone. I feel like if you were here you'd understand, as much as I love Kaiara and mom they don't understand and I don't think they ever will. Anyways with love Arabella." I fold it over carefully and just stare at the envelope for a few seconds, I knew why Kaiara never gave the letters up now, it just felt wrong, I felt like I needed to have it with me but I'm not entirely sure why.
***
"What?" I ask my wide eyed sister as she runs into the room, "Raf's dead girlfriend Cassie is back." I just blink for a second, "from the dead?" I ask, "no from saint-tropez, yes from the dead." I raise my hands, "geez sorry, I was just double checking." I defend, "what's got you all worked up?" I ask noticing her jitters, "uncle Ric is keeping the necromancer in the holding cells, I'm gonna go and convince him to bring dad back." I jump up out of my seat, "are you crazy? You can't do that!" I tell her, "why not?" My mouth opens and closes a few times as I gape at her, "are you being serious? You can not go and bargain with the newest monster to resurrect our dead dad. You saw what he did to aunt Jo, what if he uses dad as a puppet too we can't do that to him, also have you thought about mom? This would destroy her because he can't stay." She gives me a head look, "why not?"
"The necromancer is not going to just do us this favour, he will want something in return it's too risky." She shakes her head, "I want to meet my dad, I want him to do all the stupid dad things we missed out on, I want to go to a father daughter dance, I want him to intimidate my date with stupid dad threats and interrupt him when he walks me home and is about to give me a goodnight kiss, I want him to teach me how to drive and I-" I cut her off by wrapping my arms around her, "I want those things too Kie I do, but he's not here so we can't have them and if dad's at peace we shouldn't disturb him." She sobs into my shoulder, "please Arabella, please can we at least try?" Seeing my sister hurt so bad hurt me and so I caved.
***
"Well what are the two of you here for?" The necromancer asks us, I look to my sister, "we want to ask you to resurrect our father for the day." He shakes his head, "yeah no I can't do that." I share a glance with Kie, "why not?" He sends me a smirk and shrugs, "please, we'll owe you a favour." My head whips to Kaiara so fast, "what kind of favour?" The necromancer asks intrigued, "no we're not doing this, this was a mistake." I say making a move to the door, "anything you want." I stop in my tracks, what was she doing? "You retrieve the knife for me and I'll bring back as many people as you want." He bargains, I look at the hard gaze on my sisters face my eyes widening as she nods, "done, but I want the day with my dad first." She could not be serious, "the knife." She shakes her head, "I don't trust you, how do I know that as soon as I hand the knife over you won't just disappear?" I look between the two of them afraid, "no deal." He smiles, if he could do it then im sure he would've done it for the knife by now.
"Kaiara lets go he's not gonna do it." I tell her pulling at her arm, "were you really gonna give him the knife?" I ask as we get outside, she shakes her head and gives me a sad smile, "no I was just saying it, I'm gonna go I want to be alone." She tells, "Kie wait," she shakes her head and pulls her arm from my grip, "I just really need to be alone." I nod, "love you." I say, "love you too." She mumbles.
As soon as she's gone I turn around and head back down, "you can't bring my dad back why?" I ask the necromancer, who simply smirks at me, "how do you know that I can't?" He challenges, "my sister was desperate she would've given you what wanted and you know it, so if you could've brought him back you would've." He laughs, "what a clever girl you are." I glare at him, "I thought you were oh so powerful and had control over all of the dead?" I ask in a taunting tone to try and rile him up, "I do I can bring anyone back from the dead." I shake my head, "no that would mean..." I trail off figuring it out, "yes." He grins nodding, "no. He's been dead for 16 years." I tell him forcefully, "who are you trying to convince here? Yourself or me?" I shake my head again, "you're lying!" I say, "I'm afraid not sweetheart, I can feel every dead being and I can not feel your father therefore he is still living." He was trying to mess with me, "shut up!"
"You should be glad shouldn't you? Now you don't need me to have a day with him." I back up until I get to the door and then I run, I hunch over as I try to catch my breath, I look up at the sun that was warming me and wipe my tears, there was no way Kai Parker was alive.
