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'Sophia your Dad's outside, can't you hear the horn,' Carol looked into the lounge seeing her teenage daughter sprawled across the couch watching MTV. She was bouncing her foot to the music, looking up at her mother with that look on her face that Carol knew she was going to try make her parents be in the same room again.
'You always said, guys have to come knock on the door,' Sophia lifted her eyes looking at her mother. She raised her eyebrows and went back to bouncing her foot.
'Sophia, fine, you answer the door, have a nice time,' Carol spun on her heels leaving the lounge going to hide out in her room while he come to the door to pick their daughter up so she didn't have to face him. Looking at him made her sad, mad, heart broken and upset. 5 years on since they divorced she was still heart broken over him. She heard his low monotones coming from the kitchen as he greeted their daughter to take her out for their usual Thursday night dinner access. There was nothing in writing, Carol had offered him unlimited access to their daughter.
It was agreed that he would have her every Thursday night for dinner and every second Thursday he would keep her till Sunday. Carol avoided him as much as she could. Leaving it to Sophia to greet him at the door, hiding out when he dropped her off again, knowing he would always walk her inside bringing her home she ran to her room or bathroom before she saw him, calling out that she was home and thank you.
'Bye Ma,' Sophia called out.
'See you sweetie,' she called back, she set her alarm for 3 hours she knew he would drop her back on time. He always did. He was always on time, she hadn't seen him face to face in a month, she didn't want to see him face to face.
With Sophia gone she sat at the table piling the bills around her trying to figure out how she was going to pay everything again this month. One part time wage and what he gave her, plus he still helped with the mortgage still wasn't enough money. By the time she paid everything, there was barely enough to give Sophia to catch the bus, she was walking the 3 miles to work every day, she could barely afford to put gas in the car.
She put some bread in the toaster to cook for her dinner, she did this every Thursday, or she didn't eat so she didn't waste any food or money. She could nearly cry. It wasn't supposed to be like this. They were not supposed to be like this. They never used to be like this.
Sophia sat across the table from her Dad looking at him, he wasn't too hard to look at, when he was showered, his hair needed a wash, but he was ok of an old dude. He was avoiding her gaze and she could tell by his clenched fingers around his fork he was trying hard to control his temper. She knew she was baiting him but she had enough she wanted some sort of reaction from him.
'So she's been going out with him for a while, he drives a nice car, who know's if they get married I might need to call him Dad too? What do you think?' Sophia taunted him. She was lying, her Ma was going out with a guy set up by a old school friend tomorrow night. Sophia didn't know what sort of car he drove or what he even looked like. Her mother just asked her if she would mind looking after herself if she went out on a double date with Andrea. Sophia had said she would be fine, she was 15 after all.
It didn't stop her from having a little bit of fun though.
'You ain't never calling no one else Dad, got it,' he said quietly to Sophia, Sophia knew she hit a nerve.
'Well, who knows, he may move us out of town if they get married or something, I'd have to go to a new school or something,' Sophia took a stab at a french fry looking at her Dad, he was getting pissed, Sophia knew when to stop, but she just needed to push him a little harder so he go get drunk and come knocking at her mothers bedroom window. They though she didn't know that he come knocking sometimes, but honestly her bedroom was right above her mothers, they had large house but she could hear him climbing through the window sometimes at night, generally after a few drinks.
'They are leaving me home alone tomorrow, I get scared home alone but I guess I can do it if it means they get some special time without me, maybe he will want to put me in boarding school or something, not want me around.' Sophia looked at her father with her mothers big blue eyes. 'Its not fair, I don't wana go to boarding school,' she threw in a few crocodile tears.
He sat there looking at his daughter not really knowing if she was telling the truth or not, Carol never mentioned another guy. To be honest they never really talked at all. Last time he had seen her was two months ago when he did climb in through her bedroom window, Carol let him, she always let him come in, they always had sex then he always crawled out the window once she was asleep. He knew he should stop doing it but sometimes things got a little out of his own control and all he wanted was to feel her in his arms and make love to her, even for a few hours. She always let him, and every-time he climbed out the window he knew he left her lying there in tears.
At the end of the day he couldn't give her what she wanted so their marriage had broken down, with him going to stay with Merle for a few days and he just never come back. It hurt him and it hurt her. She tried to talk to him to work it out but he was firm, he couldn't keep living the way they were with her in tears even when she tried to hide them. He had left, he knew she still wanted him, she wanted him to stay, he just couldn't cope any more.
They married young had Sophia quickly who was the joy of their lives, then he had a work injury which affected his sperm count to have more children, IVF was the next option for them they saved after 3 miscarriages and 2 more failed attempts they were broken. She was broken, injections and egg retrieval had been hard on her.
Now his daughter was telling him she was moving on, possibly taking his daughter with her. He wasn't happy. He wasn't happy at all, tomorrow he was going to ring Carol and bail her up about this new man and what was happening to Sophia.