CH: 3 Saying Goodbye
When Julie woke up on Thursday morning she was hopeful. It was a beautiful day and she was going to Hungary with her father!
Julie decided that she'd better finish packing before this afternoon, but before she started packing, she ate a bowl of coco puff cereal.
Julie finished packing at about 12:00 and went to take her suitcase downstairs.
"Hay Jupe. Are you finished packing?" Mr. Clear asked when his daughter got downstairs.
"Let's see, I have my CD player, CD's, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (my favorite of the 5), all required clothes and toiletries. Yp, I think that's it!"
"Good." he said with a grin on his face." Why don't we go out to eat, since we won't be seeing each other for a while?
Julie and her father went to eat at Off the Grill. (Julie's picking) They ate and talked until 1:00, when they needed to leave for the airport.
Julie said good bye to her father at the Texas gate.
"Your flight leaves in about 45 minutes. I guess I'll see you when I get back."
Julie looked at her dad in the eyes and saw tears that he was trying very hard to hold back. Just looking at him made Julie want to cry as well. This was the first time Allen was going out of the country for work, and Julie hoped it would be the last.
She leaned forward and hugged his neck, and gave him a kiss on the cheek. They embraced each other for what seemed like an eternity, but was only a little less than a minute. They let go and smiled at each other.
"I best get going now." He said as he wiped his eyes from the tears that were now streaming down his face.
"I love you daddy!"
"I love you too sweetie"
Julie watched as her father walked to get on his plane.
As she went up to the conformation she had to keep telling herself that she would be seeing him soon.
