Tom and Morgan “Growing Together” Pt. 1

Copyright 2018 by tcs1963

I edited and rewrote some lines in this story. This story was written to see if there are genres that I can write that I have no experience in, and make it real enough for people to enjoy. I was surprised at how well people received my story. Thank you in advance for reading my work. Tom

Tom and Morgan,

Growing Together, chapter 1

A Father/Daughter Story…

She was only sixteen years old when first she heard the word Cancer in her house. The house that she lived in with her mother and father.

She remembered coming home from dance class and as she made her way up the steps she heard her mother, crying uncontrollably. Morgan’s daddy was talking to her, as he tried to calm his wife down. That’s the first time Morgan heard the fear in his voice. Something she had never heard from her Daddy.

Morgan knew right then that they were in trouble, and Daddy couldn’t fix these tears with a kiss and a cuddle, like so many times before.

Days passed and mom got sicker and more fragile. Cancer ravaged her body and she eventually became a shell of the woman that Tom and Morgan remembered.

Morgan’s daddy (Tom) became withdrawn and angry, he spent late nights at work or the bar. Drinking away the loss, as he was spiraling downward. Anything he could do to stay away from home and the illness. Then when he did come home he was drunk.

Hiding her heartbreak Morgan spent her time between school and Dance class. The rest of her free time spent caring for her mother. Which was slowly beginning to beat Morgan down.

A year an a half passed and about six months before graduation. Just two days after Morgan’s eighteenth birthday, when the inevitable happened. Margaret died peacefully in her sleep.

The funeral and the following days were devastating to both Morgan and Tom. They both found different ways to deal with the loss of their wife and mother.

Morgan chose to lock herself in her room and listen to her mother’s cd collection and go through her mother’s things. Tom just got completely obliterated.  Drunk beyond what he has ever been before.

One night during one of these binges. Tom became so impaired, stumbling through the bar. The bartender was so concerned that he called him a cab. Tom was so well known in the tavern that his friends had taken his keys to make sure he made it home safely.

That’s the night that Morgan and Tom’s relationship changed. That’s the day that a high school girl realized that she was a woman in Daddy’s eyes.

As Tom stumbled out of the cab, he fell and scraped his hands and knees. Making all sorts of racket getting into the house. He fell through the foyer and dropped into his easy chair.

As he rested Tom periodically tore a piece of his clothes off. Dropping them onto the floor.