Sixteen

KATHERINE

When I arrived home, dad wasn't around. Rachel had told me he was waiting for me but he had an urgent call and had to hurry to work and probably won't be coming home. My thought of getting answers from him failed again, I might leave here tomorrow before he gets back.

It was just Rachel and me all alone in the house. She had prepared my favorite food for me, which I ate hastily because I was famished.

While eating, we got to bond deeper than last time; she had told me how she met my father. She told me dad wasn't in his right state of mind when she met him, he was looking so lost and broken.

At first, he didn't want to give her an opportunity in his life, he kept saying he has a daughter and wouldn't know if the daughter would accept another mother but as time went on, he began growing soft for her.

Rachel also told me so many times he would come home sad and drunk because he wasn’t allowed to see his daughter, but now he is excited and happy because I was here. She had plea