He doesn't seem to have heard what just came out of my mouth, the explosive information that almost escaped my lips, he was still on his process of putting everything he was doing together until he suddenly stopped, turned around and looked at me, not in a normal way like he was used to, but this time, his looks were intense, his eyes looking directly into my soul, penetrating all blockade.
“ What did you just say?, You're trying to cheer me up I guess..... Thanks for that though, really appreciated, but you've to try better next time, I'm not old enough to be your Dad, LoL.... Did I give birth by five or something?.....”.
He said jokingly, thinking that I am just trying to boost his morale on this action we are about to take. I wanted to speak, I wanted to say another word, wanted to tell him that I wasn't joking, but no, it wasn't possible, I can't feel my lips, more like I couldn't control them because I was now shivering with every shock washing through me, knowing that I am looking at my Dad right now, he's before me, trying his best to protect the baby who goes by my name too, definitely me when I was a baby, I have been the one looking after my little self all this while, yet I was oblivious to it all, I never knew, I never saw this coming, my mind have been pretty occupied.
“ No Dad.... I.... I'm not kidding..... I..... I came from the future from now Dad, I am Ember, I am little Ember here ”. I managed to drop those information which now felt like he was getting curious about what I am trying to say. He turned towards me, his full frame facing me, looking into my face to see whether I was just trying to play or joke or something, but I believe my face wasn't showing such thing, there's nothing like a joke about this.
“ No, no, this can't be true, I just hearing stuff, just seeing illusions, probably because I am still in shock of losing my wife....”, he was talking to himself, but this is no time for that, there's no time for him to stay in shock, not now.
“ I'm serious Willy!.... This is no joke....”, I tried to explain more to him, but it feels like he was just trying to make himself not to believe this, but I'm just impossible, I kept pressing. “ Shut up!!!...., Shut up!....”, he screamed, screamed on top of his voice, holding both side of his head, covering his ear as if his hands will block my voice away from getting through his ears.
“ You're just having illusion Willy, get yourself together, this is no time to freak out Willy, get yourself together....”, he was whispering to himself, I can hear him though. His hands were folded tight into a fist, as if he was just trying to hold himself back from the trick he thought I am trying to play with him. I know I have always hated my background, hated my life, hated where I come from, but one thing is for sure, that same necklace he's holding, never leaves my neck. I brought them out, showing it to his face.
“ I have been oblivious to all this Willy, I never saw this coming, I never knew that I am for something as beautiful as this, I never knew.....”, “ I believe you, ( He interrupted my crying voice with a low tone of his), I now believe you Ember, this necklace, was the only type ever, my Mom made them, gave them to me before she passed away, my sister and I began struggling to survive..... Looking from the way you're talking about this, the way you're in tears, I believe I don't exist in your presence, I know that I was gone and you've missed me. Here's the thing Ember, You just gave me a peace of mind right now, looking by the fact you came to become such a beautiful girl, like you're right now, it shows that my plan right now worked, I don't know how it might've happened, but seeing you now makes me believe that I should stay in peace, my daughter made it out alive after all this..... I don't want to hear about what happened in the future Ember, I don't want to know about the reason of how and when I came to die, but for now, you just motivated me, you've just encouraged me to push through with this....”.
I was in tears, but the smile on his face was genuine, the smile on his face really shows that he's at peace, that he's just find happiness out of nowhere, knowing that I am somehow safe from the situation we're into right now. “ Now I am beginning to like my idea more, I think I should do this alone, I don't have to put you in danger again, I don't know how you came here, but I believe it's about time you go back, you have just completed your mission here, I believe....”.
What is he talking about?, He thinks I will leave him here to go through this even if I know my way back, not possible. “ Don't be delusional Willy, I am never leaving, even if I found a way I can go back, I am never going to leave you, not when I happened to see you face to face, not after realizing that the woman we just lost was my mother, my biological mother!....”.
I cried in pain as I speak, knowing this was no joke, Caro never got to see how I have grown, how I have survived until this day just to come to her. “ Then we should get going Ember, we've got a lot to do....”.