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Shared Solace  ||  Grant~Raina

We are the only two parents who agreed to attend the school trip. (Bonus: “So I guess we share this hotel room?”)   [ meme ]

hecalledmeflowers

Initially, Grant hadn’t wanted to attend the field trip. For one, he still had a lot of paperwork to fill after his most recent mission in the agency. Second, he hadn’t done this before. Hence, he did not know what he was to do if ever he decided to attend. But despite those two reasons, there was a bigger, more important motivation that finally pushed him to agree with it: his daughter. Spending time with her and coming with her for this school trip was the only way he knew he could make up for all the time he hadn’t been a good dad to her.

It wasn’t that he didn’t love his daughter, Lynn. Truth be told, she was his gem, his treasure, his only remaining light in the otherwise dark life he was living. He loved her very much, but he didn’t know how he could show it. Every time he tried, there was only one thing he remembered: her mother. At night, before bed, he would always plan how he would spend the next day with her, how he would personally drive her to school as opposed to having the driver do it. And then he’d fetch her after work as well. But the next morning, the moment his eyes landed on the little girl, standing there, looking so much like Kara, he just couldn’t find the courage anymore. He would fold in on himself again, letting the day pass without being a proper father to her, which was why he was now in this situation. In his attempt to make it up to his daughter, he agreed to attend the school trip.  Sadly, there was a bigger problem.

There had been a mistake in the booking of the hotel rooms. And now he was stuck sharing one room with a complete stranger--the mother of one of the other kids. This was a big problem because he was having enough trouble with his nightmares in his own room. He didn’t think the woman deserved to be woken up in the middle of the night by his screams.

“You can take the bed,” he said, eyes not meeting the woman’s. “I’ll just take the couch.” All the while, he was already planning to not sleep at all. Better awake than bother the woman with his nightmares.