D A I S Y
When I re-entered the house, my heart felt heavy. Partly because I had left Caleb standing by himself behind and I had grown so used to his presence in the past couple days that it felt incomplete without him, and partly because the house was silent inside.. just as silent as I remembered it to be every single day of my childhood, the silence that haunted me for so long even after I had left it.
There was also this lingering feeling in my heart that something was wrong and I tried neglecting it, blaming them on the nerves I was probably having before facing my father again. The anxiety. The anticipated conversation and the unthinkable reaction he could have.
"Dad!" I called as I stepped into the living room, taking a deep breath. He was probably in his room. But again, the h
