And everyone, this is officially the last chapter of the story, just the epilogue to go, which I should hopefully post tomorrow (unless of course I forget!).
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SPOV
"Can we talk? There's something that I really need to talk to the both of you about, and I would prefer to do that inside rather than standing outside on the step, if that is alright with you two, that is" Dad said, with a little bit of a shy smile at the end of the sentence.
It was only then that I really took in my dad's appearance. He was wearing grey tracksuit bottoms, a zip up hoodie which had a plain white t-shit on underneath it, as well as his old trainners, which he kept solely for whenever he was out walking.
Huh. Come to think of it, his whole outfit was more than a little strange.
In fact, his whole appearance and demeanour told me that he felt like complete shit, for a lack of a better term.
"Sure. I guess that we can at least hear you out before before we make any kind of a decision" I shrugged, and then stood aside to let him in.
"So what is it you want?" I asked, whenever the three of us – Jason, dad and I had taken our seats.
"Umm, I am not so sure where to begin" Dad said, with a slightly nervous laugh.
"At the beginning, dad. And hurry up with it" Jason spoke up.
"Okay, well first of all I want to let you know that I have left your mother" dad said, and that immediately perked up my attention.
"Not that I am complaining, but why?" I asked.
"I …. I caught her in our bed with another man yesterday" dad said, the tears springing into his eyes at the very memories.
"Ah. And who was he? Not that I particularly care anyways" Jason said.
"He was Bill Compton" dad said.
"Right" I said. "So I guess that was how that he managed to find out about the baby" I replied, sliding my hand over the top of my baby bump.
"I guess so" Dad said, and whenever I raised an eyebrow at him he continued. "I heard about that incident, from the principal. I am so sorry, Sook" dad replied.
I shrugged. "There's not really a hell of a lot that you can do about it"
"True" dad said, and then we fell into silence for a few moments.
"Sookie … Jason. I want you to both move back home with me. Michelle is gone now, for good. I have had enough of her walking all over the top of me, and the three of us can have a fresh start" Dad said.
"But why would you want us to move back home if you stood by mum's decision to kick the both of us out, just because we didn't even conform to her standards?" Jason questioned.
"I had no choice, but ever since she told me what she had done, I couldn't wait until I had the chance to get you both back" dad said.
I nodded. "But what if you and mum had never split? Would you still be sitting here then?" I asked.
"I would. Even before we had split, I was trying my fucking hardest to track the two of you down, and then only yesterday morning did I succeed in finding out where the two of you were living" dad said.
"As much as I love you dad, I am not going to move back home with you. I have my own life now, with Eric and the baby" I said.
"I understand …" dad said, and now he was properly crying.
"I am not saying that I don't want a relationship with you, dad because I do. But you have been out of my life for a few months, and it is just going to take time to build that up again" I said.
"Yeah, I am with Sookie here, dad. I still want to have a relationship with you, and see you but I am enjoying being independent and I need to have my own space as well" Jason answered.
"Of course … and I guess that I am just going to have to accept that. I should be going now" dad said, and then stood up.
"Hey, at least stay for a little while. We are having Chinese tonight, and we can all split ours. Eric should be back any time now, in fact" Jason spoke up.
"I would love that" dad said, and then sat straight back down again.
"And I would like that too" I smiled, before beginning to flick through the television once again, and we eventually settled on a quiz show, which was still on whenever Eric returned a few moments later.
"Hey, sorry it took me so long, lover but there was this really fat guy …." Eric said, as he entered into the apartment and then stopped whenever he saw dad sitting there.
"What is he doing here?" he asked.
"Dad is here because we have decided that we are going to restart up our relationship, now that he has managed to escape from my mother's evil clutches" I answered.
"Ah. If you don't mind me asking, how did you manage to get away?" Eric asked.
"I caught her in bed with someone else" dad replied.
"Yeah, and you will never ever guess who it was, honey" I said.
"Who?" he asked.
"Bill Compton" I smirked.
"No shit" Eric replied.
"No shit" Jason said, also grinning.
"Okay then ... welcome back Corbett, but if you hurt my lover like that ever again, I will make sure that you pay for it" Eric warned.
"And then I promise not to intentionally hurt either of my kids ever again" dad said.
"Good, Come on let's eat" I said, getting up to go and get some of my Chinese.
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