It was my birthday, that night I was 10 years old, my
father was taking pictures with a big smile on his face, speaking and laughing
with my cousins and my uncles. My dad was the best, all the days he played with
me a penalty football match or a play station football match. I always wanted
to use River because it was my favourite team and Boca was his favourite. My
father told me that I would be taller than him because on school everybody said
to me that I was smaller, I always cried because of that and my father always
consoled me. I asked my mom why they never fought and she told me that he was
perfect and he always would be. I asked also my stepsister, from part of my
mom, what she thought about him, she told me that he was a stupid person, that
he had ruined her life and he was an unhappy person. I said that she was a stupid
person because I could not understand why she said that. At the end of the day
she killed herself, I did not understand why she did that. Well the point is my
dad, I still thouking about him, I can not stop, I dream also with him. All his
friends of his childhood said that he was so similar to me that they thought
that he was still here. He was 45 years old, the hair was dark and with some
curles, his hands were very big and he saw you with his big blue eyes. My
grandfather told me that when he was a child he always thought to do a family,
with a nice girl like his neighbour, Katie, with the aim to play football well,
then he met your mother that had your stepsister, that killed herself, and they
had you. My uncle told me that he was the best brother, that he was like his
best friend. But the night of my birthday he was the best, very funny, and
friendly. I love him. But the last day I saw him, was the night of my birthday,
I woke up in the morning and I saw him going out with a bag on his back, I asked
him:
“Where are you going?”
“To work”, he answered me
“But today is Saturday”, I said
“Yes I know”, he said.
I returned to
sleep and before he opened the door he told me, “Never see back, always go
ahead in life”. And that was the last day I ever saw him.
