Second chapter for this weekend... lets keep the magic going!
Love OA
Chapter 6: Another new beginning.
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After that time in the hospital, everything went by in a blur. I felt numb. I had cried so much after I saw my dad die that I thought I would never cry again! I remember that at some point mom and pops came to the hospital to find me still sobbing in Damon's arms. They came by and told me that everything would be okay and if I gave them permission to handle everything. I absentmindedly nodded and the next thing I knew was that Damon was carrying me in his arms towards his car and took me to his house to sleep, telling me that he would stay in my room with the door open just in case I needed anything. I told him that I would be okay and that he could go to his own room to sleep but, stubborn as he is, he refused and pulled a chair next to my bed. I remember that I wanted to feel safe again so I reached over and grabbed his hand and he caressed it gently with his thumb. He then leaned in and gave me a peck on the forehead.
"Sleep hun, you need your rest. And don't worry, I won't let anything bad ever happen to you again, I promise." With that I drifted to a dreamless sleep.
The arrangements were made fast. The funeral was two days after dad died, in the Salvatore's lot at the cemetery. The house was sold because I needed the money to pay the medical bills and the mortgage. But, since I was still a minor, I needed legal guardians. What I didn't know was that apparently my dad had talked to mom and pops and they had decided that if anything happened to the other, they would take legal guardianship of the children. So with a will in hand and some lawyers present, I became an actual part of the Salvatore family.
I moved in to what always was my room and was surprised to see that they had actually decorated it with things that I liked and had had in my old bedroom in dad's house. I was glad that I actually had people in my life that loved me for me, traumas and all. I was grateful that to them I wasn't an orphan, I was another daughter and sister. Even Caroline had turned all motherly and loving towards me.
Things kept fairly normal after that. During the summer I went with the family to mom's parents house down in Florida. And it was actually nice. They were careful to have me entertained as much as possible without overdoing things. In a word they were perfect. They knew what I needed, when to make jokes to make me laugh, when to leave me alone to think, when to talk about a great memory about my dad.
Damon, Caroline and Stefan were the best siblings I could ever ask for. They understood that I was now in the "awkward" stage of adolescence, and did all they could to make me feel normal. By the time I got back for school and they left for college, I was much better and had gone through the initial stages of coping. I had gone through the denial stage and the angry stage and the wallow in misery stage. Although I wasn't completely healed, well we never are after losing a loved one, I was starting in the stage of acceptance and remembering with love and just a small amount of sadness.
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One more chapter to go for today... is the story interesting or going to slow?