#dahype

[tabisims]

Nancy left, and I lay in bed with my memories keeping me awake. 

When I was nine years old, I watched my parent's relationship deteriorate. Looking back with adult eyes, I am ninety percent sure their relationship passed reconciliation, and my mom could not hold back her hatred, and my dad stopped pretending to care for my sake. The closed-door arguments between them grew louder. My mom was less patient, and my dad grew more absent. No matter how often--when I was alone with one of them, they would tell me they loved me--to not worry--or their problems were not my problems. 

"If you were better behaved and ate less. Or had better grades, maybe mom and dad would love each other again," my brain said.

And one morning, on the day of the big spelling bee contest, I practiced for weeks with mom to win. I sat in the car with dad driving, going over a list of words that could stump me while on stage. In the middle of spelling deipnosophist, my dad rambled on about wanting to skip work, wondering if it would rain, and asking me three different questions at once. 

“You’re the opposite of a deipnosophist today daddy,” I said laughing. 

“Deio-symphony? What is that?” His eyes crinkled in the rearview mirror. 

“Dahyp-nos-uh-fist,” I repeated. “It means someone good at small talk.”

“Oh! Well, then you’re right about that baby girl.” 

I remembered when he pulled in front of my school. I was too caught up in my nerves that I did not hear how different his goodbye sounded or felt how different the way he hugged me on the sidewalk. 

It took a week of my dad not being home and not hearing a single word from him to realize I lost more than a spelling bee contest that day. 

Bella yelling my name pulled me out of those memories. As I walked down the stairs, a man came into my view. His skin was entirely too tan to the point it looked muddy. His right arm was wrapped in a bandage and caked in blood. The man’s hair was shoulder-length, and his bangs barely covered the bruises on his face. 

What the hell, Bella? Alarmed, my eyes met hers. Bella stood a foot away from him and looked as if she was inching further away. 

I stopped at the foot of the stairs and stared at the stranger before me. And he stared back and smiled, causing crinkles around his eyes. 

Dad.

End of Episode One

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dahype replied to your photo: I bought a super cozy pull! I can’t wait for cold...

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[platypusparesseux]

no YOU're a cool guy

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But yeah, my unisex way to say hello to people is to check hands like a 90s teen ager :D