Dad opens the door, his face looks like it doesn’t know if it wants to smile or cry. “Oh Maya!” he says, coming to wrap me up in the biggest hug ever. I can feel him sobbing now.
My own tears are falling. I genuinely thought that night before I left when I said goodnight to him for the last time that it could be the last time I would hug him. Yet I am here now, and so glad to feel his arms around me again. They say as you grow up you don’t need your parents the same, but I think you do. Not having them there for the last few years has shown me just how much I still needed them, even if it was just their love, their support, their input and advice.
I just hope we can fix things so I can have them back in my life and my son’s life. He deserved to have his nanny and Grandad there.
“Maya
