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“Welcome to San Antonio, kiddo. I think we just met your welcoming committee.” Dad chuckles as he takes the three boxes out of my hands.
“Nope, that doesn’t count, since you kind of forced their hand. Offering pizza and cash. You can’t bribe kids to be my friends, Dad.”
“Ah, Val. Those boys were dying for any excuse to come meet you. I just gave them the golden opportunity they were praying for,” he teases, walking past me and back into the house with his load.
I turn to get another box from the truck, when something catches my eye from the second floor window next door. At first, it looks like a shadow lurking behind dark black curtains, but then I catch a glimpse of something shiny. Like a flash of light, it’s there, and then suddenly, it isn’t.
“Weird,” I mumble, and go back to my task, anxious for Quaid and Logan to come back.
Though Dad had a lame way of introducing us, I’m still happy he did.
Sure, when I was thinking about making friends, I presumed I’d start with girls and work my way to boys. But like every other part of my life, nothing is ever as I expect, so why should making friends be any different?
It doesn’t matter.
All that matters is that Dad and I will finally be able to live like a normal family and be happy for once.
“Welcome to San Antonio, Val,” I whisper my dad’s words back to me.
I send a silent prayer to the big guy upstairs to make this home the safe haven Dad and I always dreamed about. Let this home be filled with only love and laughter.
Lord knows we’ve both shed enough tears to last us a lifetime.
