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“But Lisa has made me see it isn’t all bad. I just have to get my head around the two of you together.”
“Just know that we love you,” Luna whispers. “We can talk about this when you’re feeling up to it. Right now, the doctor said you need to rest.”
Our eyes meet, and he gives me a nod.
It’s early days, but maybe there is hope for our relationship yet.
I know he’s set in his ways, as am I. I also know a lot of the reasons we fought over the years were because we’re too pigheaded. Perhaps change is possible for both of us.
I need to speak to the doctor about transferring him to a better treatment center. If that’s what he needs.
He closes his eyes again, and Luna comes to stand by me. I reach out and squeeze my dad’s arm. His eyes open and his hand finds mine. “I love you, son. No matter what.”
My heart constricts. My dad never spoke those words, not even when I was small.
“I love you too, Dad. Don’t go doin’ anythin’ until we get you back home. Got me?”
He smiles softly. “Got you.”
Hope has finally returned after a long time. It just sucks that it had to come to this in order for us both to wake up to ourselves.
Better late than never.
I pull Luna into a hug as we leave the room. We stand there for a while, holding one another.
“He’s lucky,” she says eventually.
“Very.”
“He’ll be okay. He’s already talking and saying stuff he doesn’t normally say. That’s a good sign.”
“I’ll have to check and make sure he didn’t hit his head,” I say wistfully.
She smacks me on the arm. “Tag, that isn’t funny.”
"Do you see me laughin’? My Dad has never said those words to me in as long as I can remember.”
She smiles softly. “I never expected that.”
“All we can do is look to the future,” I say. “We can’t control it.”
“Which is why we have to live each day like it’s our last, or so they say.”
I cup her face. “You’re so right. Let’s go home to bed. I need you, Luna.”
“I need you too, Tag.”
She is the sweetest woman I’ve ever known.
A few days later…
“Sorry to hear about your pops,” Cash says around the meeting table while at church.
I give him a chin lift. “He’s gonna be okay. That’s the main thing.”
“Glad to hear it.”
“Any word on the Devils?” It’s been a couple of days and I’ve been at the hospital, arranging for my dad to have the care he needs when he goes home.
