Fractured Ties: A Short Story
written by ✧Aurora Lovecraft✧
Aurora Lovecraft's third and final short story brings you a young girl of 16 named Savannah torn between listening to the lies that she is fed by her mother and finding out the truth for herself. But the road to that truth is risky. Dangerous. Perhaps heartbreaking. Will she side with the blissful ignorance or unearth what may fracture her?
Last Updated
05/31/21
Chapters
10
Reads
443
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Chapter 8
Savannah races as she never has to her car, beating herself up inside the whole way for not seeing through everything. With shaking hands, she’s finally able to jam the key into the ignition and start the car. She should have known he was her father. Why else would her mom be so upset about her visiting him? Why else would Sarah be so intent about encouraging her to visit him…
Tears start to trickle down her face as the puzzle finally adds its last piece in her mind. No wonder why he always had that loving, admiring look in his eyes whenever she walked into the room – something only a father could possess. No wonder why he was always so welcome to hear her voice her emotions and concerns. No wonder she was nothing like her mother - she was everything like her father. She had finally united with her dad, and now he was dying. But joy quickly overwhelmed the sorrow at the thought of perhaps meeting her dad once more.
Savannah now briskly walks through the halls but with quite a different demeanor than she did the first time. She fights every instinct to bolt through the hallways and remain a calm composure as she finds room 213. After a final breath, she slowly peeks in through the doorway, exactly as she has always done.
And she sinks to the ground as her eyes register what is before her.
Instead of the man she had dreamed of since she was so little,
Instead of the man whose honey-brown eyes she shared,
Instead of the man who was her long-lost father,
she finds...nothing.
The bed is neatly made, the crisp white sheets folded perfectly outward ready for the next patient to take its place.
Nowhere is his soft, kind smile that brightened every time she entered.
Nowhere is his smile that let her see the real person her mother had hidden.
Nowhere is her father.
Nowhere.
