Daddy, What's It Like?

     A loving father tucks her little girl into bed.

 

"Daddy?"

               "Yes angel?"

"What's it like to dream?"

                                   "Dreaming is a magical thing, you can see everything you want."

"Really daddy?"

                                    "Yes sweetie, anything your heart wants."

"Daddy?"

                                  "Yes?"

"What's it like to be happy?"

 

The father laughs.

                                   "Well sweetie aren't you already happy?"

"I don't know"

                                  "Well lets see are you smiling?"

"No"

                                "Well now we must fix that shall we?"

He tickles her, making her laugh her cute giggle.

 

"Daddy!"

 

Both still laughing.

                                 "Yes?"

"What's it like to feel loved?"

  "Well now you tell me honey."

"Um, is it a warm fuzzy feeling?"

    "Why yes it is!"

"Yay I got it!"

                                      "You sure did!"

The little girl becomes sleepy. The father smiles and begins to walk out, holding back some tears.

 

"Daddy...."

 

He turns to find her crying.

 

"Where's momma?"

 

His face hardens.

 

"Daddy?.."

                                    "Go to sleep pumpkin"

"But daddy!!!"

 

She falls into a deep sleep, as he walks out the door...tears falling down now.

That following morning she wakes up and jumps out of bed and runs downstaires to greet her daddy...but hes gone.

 

"Daddy?"

 

She walks into the kitchen to find her daddy laying on the floor dead with policemen around him. She rushes to his side, the police let her through.

 

"DADDY!!!!!!!"

 

She starts to cry as the police try to consule her.

 

              "I am sorry little girl, your daddy is gone."

Before she gets up to follow the police out the door she turns around and holds her chest.

 

"Daddy....what's it like to feel heartbreak?"...

 

20 Years pass and she finally finds out that he commited suicide from his dead wife.

She walks to his grave one day and prays and at the end she says...

 

"Daddy, what's it like to feel empty?"...

 

She frowns...but a sun beam shines through the dark clouds that day covering her body, feeling warmth. She starts to cry and says..

 

"Daddy, I love you, I know what love feels like now. I miss you...."

 

Reviews

[Warrior]

Great story telling. This did justice in the realm of getting the message across. Great message. There's lot of times where a story can have a great message to aim for, and have a lot of under lining things but then no one gets it, and if no one gets it, then the point has failed. But in my opinion this did well to get the message across. You made it clear, which is why I think it's good. Keep up the good work. What was also great was that I could imagine the story as I read it, and that is also a strong point of stories. The ability to have the reader imagine it because after all we're reading not watching it, but it was as if I was there as I read this, and that is great. Good job once again.

[Closed]

this was so well done. oh my god. i loved the dramatic twist and turn that happened. i was not expecting the father to die. this was so realistic and a great, great although upsetting story.

[Elemenopy]

Hmm, definitely went a different direction than I thought it would. I don't think it is a bad story, but these 'he up and killed himself' plot twists never really make sense to me. Perhaps I like to read about the guy who fights through his turmoil, lives the live he needs to for his kid, and moves on. But I guess here we get to see the other side of things.

When I first started reading it I found myself smiling, and then I found myself saying what the hell? I don't have much else to say about it. The grammar and all of that looked fine. Keep writing.

[Lost-in-Fantasy16]

I'm in tears, this was so real so life like, I felt like I was there with the girl

[haylie]

loved it i could really feel the emotion in it!

[BlackMoonRising]

I never knew my real father. I constantly ask myself that question; "What's it like to be empty."

This was so beautiful. It brought me so close to tears.

Good job.

[Cricket Kidd]

oh!... Sad!

[Jessica Marlow]

i think im crying i dont know its beautiful and sweet but soo sad no child should have to go through that not every:(... i had several people i love commite sucide me and my family will forever remember them and love them but we will have to go on with our lifes just like the daughter did. for me its not 20 year its been 5 years and 3 or 4 months:(... god forgive the souls we lost

[lovejulez03]

Beautifully written. I can feel the pain and the sorrow, it just jumps out. Very very well done :) Thank you for sharing

[Jasana]

Aww, that was really great. Well written and so sad!