Your Turn to Chase Me, Reborn For Revenge

Inside of Martin's study, April sat down on one of the brown leather sofas and her father sat on the other. He leaned back rubbed his temples and sighed.

Feeling guilt and overwhelming grief he could do nothing but blame himself for what was happening now. He found it hard to face his daughter or look at his wife's paintings. He had dove into his work and had hoped his wife's best friend Rachel would look after April. Was he wrong in the end? He wasn't sure yet.

He wanted to bury his head in work so he wouldn't miss his wife Kathleen but it had never worked out that way. He still loved and missed her more than ever, it was as if it was only yesterday that she died. The same overwhelming grief and sorrow he felt then he still feels now.

April watched as her father sat I'm front of her with his eyes closed. She stood up and went to his mini kitchenette in the corner of the study room.

She took out two cups and boiled the kettle, she looked through the tea and picked up chamomile for herself and green tea for her father. Chamomile calms anxiety and stress whereas the green tea she was making for her father, studies she had read suggest that the consumption of green tea increases dopamine and serotonin, which has been linked to reducing symptoms of depression.

She had an idea that her father was still grieving.After making the tea she brought the two cups over to the coffee table and set them down before sitting herself. Her father then opened his eyes and his lips slightly curled.

"Your mother used to make me tea..." Saying this he then stood up and went to his desk drawer he took out three small glass pill jars and emptied some tablets in his hand before taking them then putting them away again.

April furrowed her eyebrows, her father was never sick even in her past life he had never mentioned the need to take tablets. As he sat back down in front of her she asked, "What tablets are you taking?"

He took the teacup in his hands as sat back and answered, "They are just some herbal supplements for headaches and blood pressure."

April thought before asking, "Where did you get them?"

He took a sip of tea before replying, "Rachel gave me them as I was complaining of headaches so she went to some all natural herbal specialist."

April thought for a while before asking, "Do they seem to help?"

Martin laughed softly, "I am getting older so nothing works the same as it used to anymore. Anyway enough about this old man, what have you got to discuss with me?"

April decided to stop her questions for now but she wanted to take a pill from each pill bottle just to check it, she wouldn't put anything past Rachel. For now, she smiled and drank her tea with her father, "I just wanted to tell you that I got a job and I started today.

"Congratulations daughter, what kind of job?" He was genuinely happy for April. He wanted her to eventually join his business but it was struggling and he didn't want her to join him at this point.

Plus she had creative and artistic mind like her mother and she couldn't express herself artistically in his company.

"I am working in Walker Interiors as an interior designer. I have a few friends there already and the perks are great." April enjoyed seeing her fathers expression and sharing the good news with him.This was their first proper father daughter talk in both lifetimes. They had missed so much and misunderstood so much about each other.

"Thats great just great though I expected you to soar just like your mother did. You are both so talented... She...she would be so proud of you." Martin felt sad that his wife would not see their daughter grow up and spread her wings.

"Thanks, Father, the perks though I wanted to tell you about them. I didn't want Lucy to cloud your mind with inaccurate and vulgar..."

Before April could say any more he stopped his daughter, "I would never believe anything like that I know you, you are just like your mother. You are capable of so much that you have barely scratched the surface. "Thanks, father. They gave me a car and a condo as part of my employment so I will be moving out. But I don't want you to feel that I'm leaving you, I'm leaving the house I can't..."

Martin rubbed his temples and sighed as he interrupted her, "I get it I was wrong, very wrong on so many things in life and I can't go back. I don't know how to fix it."

"It's okay, you don't have to say any more. Mum wants you to be happy father don't do things you don't want anymore." April sat forward and placed her cup down.April then stood and walked to her father she wrapped her arms around his tired shoulders.

He patted her back and sighed his daughter was all grown up and now and that reassured him.

"Go make a home and a life for yourself don't worry about me." 

"Father don't say that I will not be far away and you can come to visit my place, but here is..." April didn't know how to finish that sentence.

Martin withdrew his hug and patted her hand, "It's okay let me walk you out."

April smiled at her father and walked out the door with him, she looked back at the study desk. She had to come back for a sample of those tablets.

They both walked down the stairs and saw Lucy and Rachel waiting for them in the living room. Lucy was changed into a floral yellow dress which made her look so pure and sweet it made April internally cringe. But she had more or less done what she came here for.

April turned to her father at the bottom of the stairs, "I'll go check my room before I go."

Lucy stood up and approached April, "Sister about earlier I am sorry I didn't mean it and about the card..."