Chapter 27\u2013Hurt\u00a0<\/p>\n
LAINA\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daddy picked me up and put me on his lap in the big chair. His face looked series, like when he had to tell me that Grandma\u2019s dog, went to heaven, but also happy, like when I got a good report from preschool\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cPrincess, I have something, exciting, to tell you,\u201d he said, smoothing my hair back. \u201cHow would you feel about moving to New York to be with Mommy?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I tilted my head, confused. \u201cBut we already live with Mommy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, yes, but Mommy has been working in New York, remember? And we\u2019ve been here without her.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I thought about this. Mommy had been gone a lot lately. She used to tuck me in every single night and read me stories, but then she started going away. Sometimes for just a few days, but the last time felt really, really long\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to live in New York?\u201d I asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s right. We\u2019ll get a new house there, and you\u2019ll go to a new school, and we\u2019ll all be together every day.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
My tummy got all fluttery with excitement. \u201cEvery day? Mommy won\u2019t go away anymore?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNo more going away,\u201d Daddy promised, hugging me tighter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I bounced a little bit on his lap. \u201cThat sounds good! I miss Mommy so much when she\u2019s gone. My tummy feels funny and I can\u2019t sleep sometimes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI know, sweetheart. That\u2019s why we\u2019re going to move so we can all be together.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
But then I remembered something important. Something that made my chest feel tight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about Miss Vivienne?\u201d I asked. \u201cIs she coming to New York too?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daddy got very quiet. He looked at me for a long time, and his happy face got a little sad.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, Princess, Miss Vivienne is very sick, remember? She needs to stay here with her doctors.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we can still visit her every day, right? Like we do now?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2026 we might not be able to see Aunt Vivienne every day anymore.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The fluttery feeling in my tummy went away, and now it felt heavy and yucky instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery day?\u201d My voice got small. \u201cBut Miss Vivienne is my friend. She teaches me piano and she knows all the best stories and she smells like flowers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI know you care about her, Luna-\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe said she needs me!\u201d I pushed away from Daddy\u2019s chest, feeling sad all of a sudden. \u201cShe said I make her feel better when she\u2019s sick,\u201d I cried.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I slid off Daddy\u2019s lap and accidentally knocked over my tower of blocks with my foot. They scattered all over the floor with loud crashes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Chapter 27 Hart\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cLuna, careful-\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to move to New York if Miss Vivienne can\u2019t come!\u201d I wailed loudly. \u201cShe\u2019ll be all alone and sad!\u201d D\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cPrincess, come here.\u201d Daddy reached for me, but I backed away, he kept coming.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, sweetheart.\u201d Daddy knelt down and pulled me into a big hug, even though I was being squirmy and mad. \u201cI know this is hard.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I buried my face in his shoulder and let the tears come. His shirt smelled like his special soap and a little bit like coffee.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe said\u2026\u201d I hiccupped, trying to get the words out between sobs. \u201cShe said Mommy took her wedding dress away.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daddy got very still. \u201cWhat?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMiss Vivienne showed me a picture of a pretty white dress and said it was supposed to be hers but Mommy took it. And she said Mommy took her cake too, a big white cake with flowers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLuna, who told you this?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMiss Vivienne did. She was crying when she told me.\u201d I pulled back to look at Daddy\u2019s face. \u201cShe said Mommy doesn\u2019t like us being friends, and that\u2019s why Mommy goes away so much. Because she doesn\u2019t like me loving Miss Vivienne.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daddy\u2019s face looked funny. Like when I accidentally broke his favorite coffee mug and he was trying not to be\u00a0<\/p>\n
mad.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cPrincess, sometimes grown\u2013ups say things when they\u2019re sad or confused-\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it\u2019s true!\u201d I stamped my foot. \u201cMiss Vivienne is so nice to me! She buys me pretty dresses and teaches me songs and she always knows when I\u2019m sad. And Daddy, you smile so much more when Miss Vivienne is with us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLuna-\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou do! When it\u2019s just me and Mommy, you look tired. But when Miss Vivienne comes over, you laugh and your eyes get all sparkly.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I thought about all the times Miss Vivienne came to our house. How Daddy would rush to open the door for her and help her with her coat. How he would sit really close to her on the couch when she was teaching me piano. How he would bring her special tea in the pretty china cups that Mommy wasn\u2019t allowed to use.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMiss Vivienne makes everyone happy,\u201d I said, more tears spilling down my cheeks. \u201cExcept Mommy. Mommy gets a weird face when Miss Vivienne is here, like when I eat too much candy and my tummy hurts.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSweetheart, it\u2019s complicated-\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want it to be compleecated!\u201d I whined. \u201cI want Miss Vivienne to come with us! I want Mommy to like her! I want everyone to be happy!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
But even as I said it, I knew it wasn\u2019t true. Mommy was never happy when Miss Vivienne was around. And Miss Vivienne got sad eyes when she looked at Mommy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Souls Remember What Matters \u2014 Corey Gibson 27 Chapter 27\u2013Hurt\u00a0 LAINA\u00a0 Daddy picked me up and put me on his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-day-i-signed-the-papers-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}