Something New

Part 4 : But-

Kelly left and so Stella went back inside after breathing a bit of fresh air. She didn't know if she was ready to hear her dad yet, but she decided to wipe her tears and go back inside.

She got in and she faced a situation she was not ready to find. She had been gone for so little.

"What are you doing?" She asked shocked.

Her dad had her daughter's ash urn in his hands and he was pouring it in the kitchen sink. Stella felt the anger going up her body, and weirdly it was like what her dad was doing had paralyzed her. It was the only thing she had, the only thing she could hold on to to remember her daughter. But what bothered her even more was how her mother was standing there without doing anything, she knew she was the one who had given her dad the ashes. And even if she had previously dried her tears, she couldn't hold them in.

She got in front of her dad and said "why would you do that?" you could feel the pain in her voice

"For you to stop with this stupid illusion, I didn't pay for you to spread your legs like some fucking prostitute and get pregnant. I paid for your education"

Stella knew her dad would be hard on her at times, and right about now she felt like that little girl again. Her parents were great, and she always loved her dad but sometimes he was scary. And right now she felt like that little girl, without any power.

"So to you falling in love and having a child by the man you love is a bad thing?" She asked in disbelief.

"You're a child, you don't know what you're talking about" he told her with conviction.

And so her mother was still there doing nothing, she saw how Stella was uncontrollably crying and shaking so she went to her and tried to pat her back. But Stella pushed her away.

"I do know, and no dad i am not a child anymore. I lost my child for god's sake, can't you have a bit more of compassion?" She felt helpless in front of him.

"Well here then" he threw the empty urn at her "go cry your daughter".

She couldn't recognize her dad, it's like she had a whole new man in front of her.

"You're disgusting" she said still crying "in my entire life i never thought out of all people you'd do that to me. You!" She shouted "my dad, the man i admired and then you wonder why I didn't want to tell you guys about this".

She shook her head, looking at the both of them. And then proceeded to leave, her empty urn in hand.

"I didn't say you could leave"

She turned back and said "Well I don't give a single fuck anymore, rot in hell dad" she started going up the stairs.

"Stella, come back here! Stella" he screamed.

But as she heard her name one last time, it's like his voice had faded and now she was hearing her mother call her. She took off her heels and ran to see what was happening, her dad was on the floor.

Stella said worried "i think he is having a heart attack".

Stella knew what to do and in the meantime she had her mom call 911. In no time the ambulance was there and her dad was taken to the hospital. She hopped in the back with him, without even noticing she forgot her shoes.
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They were already at the hospital waiting for more news on his condition.

Stella sat next to her mom and took her hands. But her mother rejected her.

"This is all your fault, if you would have just cooperated with your father we wouldn't have been there".