5 Weeks by June Hopkins

Author:June Hopkins
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: Romantic Comedy, chick lit
ISBN: 9780957441811
Publisher: June Hopkins
Published: 2012-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

7.00 pm and we are back home after a delightful afternoon spent with Tom. Harry has been in bed for an hour. He was exhausted, luckily, as I am now sitting in my small lounge with my parents. I waited until Harry was asleep and then made the phone call I had been dreading. My parents arrived within fifteen minutes and now my father is pacing up and down, huffing and puffing at the news I have just landed on them from a great height. My mum has not commented, she is just sitting quietly on the sofa watching and waiting.

Dad is far from happy. Unfortunately as it turns out, I was a little too honest in the telling, clearly not the kitchen table incident, but I have told them everything else. Well I am still a little over excited about it all. Maybe I should have been a little more conservative with some of the detail; edited things slightly.

"I am very disappointed in you Annabelle." Yes, that is my given name and only used by my parents when I am in trouble. "You should have told us the truth in the beginning. I would have ensured that he take responsibility for his actions. Years, years and not a word, not a penny. You say he knew, he knew, yet nothing. Well you can be sure he will make up for it, if I have to hold him upside down and shake it out of him. I have never heard anything like it, this is disgusting behaviour and him a lawyer, he should know better."

"Dad..."

"Dreadful, absolutely dreadful and you have spent the day with him. What do you think this will do to Harry? I am aware that you say he is fine as you put it, but Annabelle, this could scar the child for life. You should have told your mother and I the minute you knew he was coming back. At least we could have prepared Harry, perhaps sought some professional advice in how to deal with it all. Oh I really don't know what to say to you." He stops for breath as mum and I send each other a significant look.

I try again to pacify him, "Dad please, really, Harry is fine, truly..."

"Don't be ridiculous, Annabelle, of course the child is not fine. You have no idea what is going on in his head. How long do you think it will be before he finds out the truth? Hey? Discovers that his wonderful father knew all along, yet took the wholely self centred decision to put his career first."

This jolts me somewhat, as I hadn't actually considered that possibility but I quickly discount it. I mean, who would tell Harry that? Not any of us, so exactly how could he find out? No, dad is just being over dramatic.

"Dad please, things really are not as bad as you think. Once you calm down and have a little time to get used to the idea, you will see.

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