• -_Why our house?

    -_”He’s ba-ack!” I said in one of those horror film voices.
    -_”Sis, get a grip! He’s not evil, you know!” Nikki shouted from the second story.
    -_”That’s what you think.” I mumbled to myself. My mother heard and smiled in agreement.
    -_Wendy and Sara are totally indifferent to our dad’s comings and goings, but Nikki enjoys his visits. My half-sisters Tanya and Amy don’t like him, but they don’t hate him. Dana loves his visits because they make her mom happy, and her mom’s usually sad.
    -_He came in and walked right past me, nearly knocking me over.
    -_”Hey, Dad.” I said, and just as I expected, he didn’t acknowledge that I had spoken.

    * * *


    -_The next morning as I hurried to my car in the morning, I dropped my purse and half the stuff fell out.
    -_”Crap!” I said, as I picked up my phone. According to my phone, I was behind my schedule by 30 minutes.
    -_Suddenly, I heard a sound and I looked up. Some banged up convertible was speeding towards me, and the driver was sleeping!
    -_I didn’t even feel the need to scream, it wouldn’t do much good. It just kept coming, and then the driver woke up and tried to swerve away from me, and I don’t know how it happened, but the car flipped! It landed right on me. I hit my head on the pavement because the seats pushed me down.
    -_Suddenly I saw a beam of light coming off the ground. Slowly, I realized that it was someone lifting the car. I was too disoriented to realize that that should be impossible so soon, but I did know that there was no way my dad cared enough to be doing the impossible, which he was. And then it all faded to black.

    * * *


    -_I woke up in the hospital the next day, and my dad was there. I immediately shut my eyes.
    -_”Jessica?” he asked.
    -_There was no way he saw my eyes open so I pretended I was still asleep.
    -_”Jessica, I know you’re awake; I’m your father and I’ve been on this earth long enough to tell that you’re faking.” He said, “Jessica, I’m not playing.”
    -_Silence.
    -_”Alright, fine, but just so you know you probably have false memories, you hit your head hard.” He said, and walked up and kissed my forehead. It was hard not to open my eyes in shock. When I heard the door open and close, I opened my eyes slightly so that no one would be able to tell they were open.
    -_He was gone so I opened my eyes completely and replayed the scene in my head. It all made sense except for the last part, but his last sentence was very suspicious.