A Mixed Hope

By Debra A Stratton

Young women coming into her own and discovers life as she knows it doesn't really exist. Join Katie on her adventure into a new world and a new hope.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jan 24, 2020
• ISBN: 9781794896048

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A Mixed Hope

A Mixed Hope

Author

Debra A. Stratton

Chapter 1

I woke in the morning not realizing today my life would change forever. My name is Katie and I live in a small city called Augusta. I live alone with my mother Amelia, my father died when I was one years old in a car accident. I don’t remember my father but my mom tells me stories of him. She says I look like him, I do see the resemblance in photos. My mother never remarried she always said you only have one soulmate and my dad was hers.

Sometimes he visits me in my dreams and it makes me miss him all the more even though I never got to meet him, it’s so strange because in my dreams it’s like he never died we talk about everything from school, homework to sports, it’s like I’ve been with him the whole time. He talks to me like he knew everything in my life up to this point and he loves me I’m his little girl. I know I should be happy that we have this relationship it could be that he never came to me and I would never know what it’s like to have a dad. I know this sounds weird but I love that I have him at night and mom during the day.

My mom says my father is always with me, but I never tell her about my dreams I feel it’s my time with my dad and she never asks me how I feel because I think she believes it will upset me or just maybe she knows he comes and sees me and is waiting to see if I say anything. I and mom have always been close, but sometimes I think she is hiding things from me and I have no idea why and don’t get me wrong we are definitely very close I couldn’t image life without her. It’s always been me and mom from the beginning, and I love it. My mom is very quiet and doesn’t have a lot of friends she says it’s because she doesn’t want to share me with anyone. In truth I believe my mom suffers from high anxiety since my dad’s death and she never let anyone get close to her.

The morning was going great the sun was out and it was warming up it was going to be a warm an beautiful day, I was doing last minute studying because I knew my senior year was over after these final exams. I was a straight A student and knew the exams would be difficult but I put a lot of time into my studies so I wasn’t too worried. I was more excited about it being the last day of school so I would have the summer to hang with my friends before off to college where I intended to get a medical degree.

My best friend since kindergarten Jack was also going to medical school except I was starting my classes here at the local college and he was starting his in New York. We were both fine because we could Facebook and FaceTime anytime we wanted. He was the coolest best friend since kindergarten and I loved him dearly. We have been best friends since children we lived next to each other and we were more like brother and sister than besties. We never did see each other as being together romantically we both had different taste in the opposite sex our relationship again was more like sibling we were both very protective of the other.

He was supposed to pick me up today, but he must be running late this happened from time to time with him, I don’t know how he is going to survive college without me. This happened more than he liked to admit he didn’t like getting up to early and always hit snooze on his alarm clock, but I knew he was never more than fifteen minutes late unless he warned me the day before.

There was a knock on my bedroom door, finally he is here even though I’m surprised I didn’t hear him drive up. As the door opened and my mom was standing there I knew by the look on her face something was wrong. Mom what is it? Jack never made it home last night he is missing, his mother called to see if he was here with you. I told them I haven’t see Jack since yesterday morning when he picked you up for school. His mother states they have involved the police. Do you know where he is Katie or has he called you at all since last night?

I couldn’t breathe I felt like someone suck all the air out of my lungs as I collapsed to the floor. This can’t be happening not to my best friend in the world. Katie baby, are you ok? They’re going to find him, he probably out with his friends and it got too late. I knew that wasn’t Jack he would have at least called his family or shot me a funny text message, we need to go to his house now mom, I need to be there when he gets there I have to know what is going on please. ok dear let’s go.

The drive over felt like it took hours when really it was only five minutes