Walking Home

"Hey wait up" shouted Bobby Ray as he ran to catch up with Ellie

Ellie remembered Bobby Ray, he was her godfather and a best friend of her parents.

"So did that feel as good as you thought it would?" asked Bobby Ray.

"Yeah it felt great to let him know what I really think of him" said Ellie

"Yeah see I don't think thats how you really feel" said Bobby Ray

"And what do you know? You haven't seen me in 8 years I've changed"

"I don't doubt that, you were always a sweet good natured little girl but you had Jake's temper and you could lash out and hurt people, but you also had a conscience and you used to cry when you calmed down and realised you had hurt someone. Do you remember what you did to Cassandra Blake?"

"Yeah she scribbled over the picture I had spent hours drawing" said Ellie

"Yeah and then you threw her into the lake" laughed Bobby Ray

"Yeah then I cried and made you go in and get her out" said Ellie laughing now as well

"Yep and I got totally soaked in that cold dirty lake" said Bobby Ray " So you see you do have a conscience and I don't think you're proud of what you just did. You hurt your dad real bad"

Bobby Ray wasn't surprised when he turned round to face Ellie and he saw a tear fall down her cheek.

"Come on let's go down to that lake and we can talk" suggested Bobby Ray

"Okay" said Ellie quietly

They both walked down to the lake in silence, when they got there Bobby Ray asked Ellie

"So are you gonna tell me why you did it?"

"I wanted to hurt him the way he hurt me" said Ellie the tears now streaming down her face

"How did he hurt you? It seems to me, you were the one to hurt him, by refusing to take his calls and cutting him out of your life and pretending he doesn't exist" said Bobby Ray

"I had to do that. He only called me once a week. I cried myself to sleep 6 nights a week. The only night I didn't was the night before he called because I knew I would get to talk to him the next day. At first I hated my mother for taking me away from him but then I realised she had done it for my own good. My father didn't even try to get me and my mum back, he didn't try and visit me I doubt he even noticed we left. I thought the only way was to cut him out and never see or hear from him again." Ellie was sobbing now, Bobby Ray sat down next to her,and put his arm round her.

"It's okay, let it all out, you know you can trust me not to say anything." he said softly

"I know, but now Jake's gonna hat me, Gabby loves him, why couldn't I just have shown how happy I was to see him again."

"Shhh stop crying, come on girl. I've got something to tell you. Come on dry thoses eyes"

Ellie started to pull her self together, she wiped her eyes.

"That better now, your dad doesn't hate you, he carries a picture of you around in his wallet." said Bobby Ray

"He probably got rid of that a long time ago" sniffed Ellie

"No I swear I saw it just last week. You looked about five and Jake was carrying you and you were hugging him, you were wearing that fairy princess costume you always wore"

"Yeah I remember that, it's so embarassing to think about now. Thank god my mum didn't take any of those pictures with us to New York"

"She would have had trouble getting them of your dad, they were all he had left of you. I went round to see him about a week after you told him you never wanted to see or talk to him again, he was lying on the couch in the same clothes he had been wearing that day. He was filthy he hadn't moved from the sofa, he was looking at your pictures and the old home movies, he was such a mess."

"Oh my god, I had no idea, he never seemed to care that much"

"He doesn't like to show his feelings much, but he was devastated he adored you, he still does, you were always a daddy's girl"

"Thank you Bobby Ray" said Ellie as she gave him a hug

Bobby Ray walked Ellie back to Melanie's parents house and then he went back to the bar.

You've all seen the film so you know what happens at the bar.