Gone forever

Knock-knock-knock

“Come in,” Lucas responded. It was evening time, and he didn’t feel good at all, he’d taken a shower multiple times, he even tried shaving off his chest but the hair grew back immediately, with nothing left to do, he went back to lie down. As if things couldn’t get any worse, the pounding in his head resumed, pounding louder and faster than before. 

Amelia poked her head through the bedroom door. 

“Dinner is ready, Lucas. Come and eat downstairs,” she said. 

“I’m not hungry.”

“But you haven’t had anything to eat since you returned this morning.”

“I’m not hungry,” he repeated vehemently. 

Amelia had had it. It was time to let him have a piece of her mind. 

“You bail on your kid during the special times in his life, even on his birthdays, you can’t even spare him up to an hou