LEARNING TO LISTEN - PART FIVE

ON GOING STORY, WRITTEN BY Loribeth Hawkeye

”LEARNING TO LISTEN”, TITLE BY: Jacqueline J Samen

CONTRIBUTIONS BY (none as of yet)

PART FIVE

By this time Mike was steaming. I could see that he had fire in his eyes. My mind, however, was in a daze. I could not believe what I had been hearing. I felt my heart breaking and a strong longing came into my head; to be back in my little safe apartment with Trish. Then as usual the quilt set in. This was my mom who was going through all this as well as my brother. I tried to focus on Mike. I needed to hear this. Mike said that as he walk up the stairs to the room where Dad was that he had walked out the door. When Dad first saw Mike, he turned as white as a ghost.

I looked over at mom at that second. I couldn’t seem to make out the look on her face. She had been crying but at this moment when I look I saw a face of anger and hate. It was a look I had never really seen before on my Mothers face. “Mike, what the hell happened?” I felt I had asked them question more in this last hour then I had in my whole life. “Well, I popped Dad a good one in the face.” I looked at him with that familiar sister to brother eye roll look. “Sam, he had it coming,” he said to me, as if his comment would make it all right.

“What did Dad do?” I asked with a half-exhausted breath.

“Nothing, Sam. That was the weird part. He just stood there like a little boy and started crying. I didn’t know what to do. Then he hugged me and kept saying, ‘I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry.’ I didn’t know what to do so I ask him why he was doing all this. When he finally got his composer, we agreed to go get coffee.”

Mike went on to say that he and Dad had had a long talk. They had talked about how Dad felt that he was getting older and that he was feeling like he had never accomplished anything in his life. I thought to myself, that it was the typical. What I had heard to be called a mid-life conflict or crises. I didn’t even think I could begin to understand what it all meant. Mike went on to say that Dad had apologized for all the things he had said to Mom. That he didn’t mean for it all to come out like this. Mike said he asked Dad what “all” meant. And it was then that Dad proceeded to tell Mike the family dirt.

Go To Page: 1 2 3 4