Having Powers

The Forgiveness Project

After breakfast we headed upstairs to our rooms to change. I had to help Erica with her garden, and Tommy decided to fill in for Taylor since she was going to the mall with some of her friends. Erica had needed to talk to me about something alone. I think I know what she needed to talk to me about.

"What do you need Erica?"

"I need to talk to you..." she stopped. I looked at her confused. Then she sighed. Oh no, this isn't gonna be good .

"It's about your father AJ, he needs your help."

My father left me alone when I was 2, and these people I didn't know took me away. He has a new family, why does he need my help? Why now? Why me? What could I possibly do to help him?

"Needs my help? What does he want to do, apologize to me then leave me again? I guess that's cool, he's done it before. What makes this one so different? I mean it's not like I cared about him... oh wait, yeah I did care about him... once. But that was like 15 years ago. I've changed, and I'm sure he has too. Right? No, probably not. When will he ever care about his daughter? Oh yeah that's right, NEVER!!" I yelled, probably drawing attention from the surrounding neighbors. I dropped the mini shovel I was holding on the ground and walked back towards the hous from the backyard.

"Amelia Jean!" Erica shouted. "He needs your help. You have to forgive him." I stopped and turned around abruptly.

"Forgive him, are you insane?! I'm not forgiving anyone! Especially him!"

"Forgiveness will bring you peace Amelia. Just forgive him. Please."

"I've tried to Erica. But it doesn't work. Forgiveness is for jerks."

"Just give him one more chance. That's all he needs AJ. He's given you a lot of chances--"

"Given me a lot of chances?! He has never given me a second chance! He sent me away before even giving me anything!"

"AJ, just forgive your father. Please, it's the best thing to do and you know it."

"You don't just walk out of someone's life for like 15 years leaving them alone since they were 2, and letting some people they don't even know take you away. Never knowing what they are going to do to you."

After many attemps to turn her down, after what seemed like hours, I decided to try to give him a second chance. I took my best friend Sam with me and we brought Erica with us. Tommy had nothing else to do so he tagged along. I found my father in a nearby café named Tori's. We talked for a while inside the café.

—(If you've seen Girl Meets World, I got this from the Forgiveness Project episode, cause I ran out of ideas.)—

"Do you remember that time the lightning struck the apartment?" I said.

"Why are we talking about that now?" he asked.

"I'm all under my covers crying, and you come flying into the room, and you peak under the covers, and decide to make it a game. That we were in Alaska, looking for gold. And the lightning was the northern lights. The aurora borealis."

"Is this why the only thing you know is the aurora borealis?" Sam asked looking down.

"You made that entire night an adventure until the storm passed. Don't you remember that?"

"No AJ, I don't." he replied.

"That's because it never happened. The storm happened. But you didn't."

After a long pause of uncomfortable silence in the café, Sam was the first to break the silence barrier.

"So how do you know the aurora borealis AJ?" said Sam.

"Erica." I said walking over to her at a nearby table. "It was Erica that came in. She made it Alaska, and I wasn't scared at all."

"I was petrified. Greatest performance of my life." Erica said eating cheesecake.

"Why weren't you there?" Sam asked.

"Because little sisters bite teddy bears faces off, friends ruin movies, and fathers leave. You know somethings you can forgive and somethings you can't. You were wrong about this one Erica." I said starting to walk away.

"Sam." Erica said.

Sam got up shortly after me and walked out of the café. We were back at the house sitting on the couch. Shortly after that incident happened, Erica said that my father had left. Sam went home to forgive her sister for biting the face off of her teddy bear, Charlie. And I sat alone in my room feeling like a complete idiot for thinking a man like my father could be given a second chance. Pathetic.