Shattered Vows by Shain Rose

Author:Shain Rose [Rose, Shain]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Greene Ink Publishing, LLC
Published: 2022-02-09T18:30:00+00:00

20

Bastian

Nothing about this park was tranquil. Cade texted to say he’d meet us in an hour as walking with the stroller was taking longer than he’d anticipated. The man thought he could control everything with technology but some things he had to still navigate in real time.

Luckily, he’d managed to get us passes to skip most lines. Morina and I decided to take on the biggest ride in the park. It was well known and took pictures of the riders.

After checking the signs, I ushered Morina to the faster line. We needed our cards and fingerprints to get through but Cade didn’t disappoint and they worked fine. Even so, we waited about ten minutes.

Taking in the park while we stood in the shorter line was an eye opening experience. A man told his son to stretch taller and taller just to get on a ride.

Morina watched, wide-eyed. “Do you think he’ll make it?”

I shook my head when the devastation occurred. The park employee dressed in full get up told the son and father he still wasn’t tall enough. The father yelled, and the kid’s face fell.

“Oh, jeez.” Morina said it like it broke her heart too. Her hand had left mine after literally minutes, and now it turned those beads on her wrist.

I wanted to punch the father, if not for the kid’s sadness, then for Morina’s.

That emotion wasn’t one I should’ve had, but it looked like one I’d need to deal with for the foreseeable future.

“He shouldn’t be held accountable for something he can’t control,” I mumbled more to myself than anyone else. When a kid can’t control an outcome, their parents can’t possibly hold them accountable.

My father had. It stuck with me far more than I wanted it to.

Morina heard though. “No, he shouldn’t. His father is human too though. He's probably working through something himself. At least they’re here.”

I glanced around while the theme park music played softly on speakers above us. All these parents navigated one another, pushing their kids around in strollers, doling out food from backpacks, all with smiles on their faces. They were definitely different from the parent Mario Armanelli had been. My father would never have brought me here. This whole park was full of parents who wanted to do right by their children.

Mario wanted to train me, not love me.

“Yeah, this is not a place my family would have ever come.”

Morina moved up in the line. It was supposed to be a rollercoaster that splashed us half way through. I wasn’t looking forward to getting my suit wet but the pictures would serve us well.

She thought about it for a second, her leg jutting out so she could tap. “Maybe my parents would have if they hadn’t been so occupied with their own stuff. Not sure.”

She didn’t seem bothered at all by this admission the way she had been before. “Were your parents ever not occupied with their own stuff?”

She glanced away. Ah, there it was, the past pain we both had.

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