FINE I’LL LEAVE THEN 
- 2036
Have you ever had bad days? Like baaaaaad days? Yes? Well… WELL… WELL UM… WELL HAVE YOU EVER HAD BAD WEEKS? BET YOU HAVEN’T. NOT LIKE THE ONE SHAY DELOUGHREY HAD. You wanna know how bad it was? Like… really really really really really really reallllly really really really really bad. Like the worst kind of bad. Like the worstest bad that bad can be. Yeah. Crazy right? It was THAT bad. SOOO bad that right now Shay had tears running down her reddened face as she ran to her bedroom and SLAMMED the door. That’s what her dad wanted right? RIGHT? TO GO AWAY. Fine. FINE. She WOULD Go away. He clearly didn’t want her… Her dad…didn’t…want…her… It was… fine. Everything was just… fine. Shay could leave. She was a big gorl. That’s what her mommy and daddy always said. Oh… okay then she would.
Running to her closet, Shay pulled out her ice cweam suitcase that mommy and daddy always packed when they went on trips, and for the FIRST TIME, she packed it for herself.
Um…
How does one pack a suitcase? NO, don’t tell her. She didn’t need help because she was a big gorl now. Looking around her room, Shay ran to her stuffed toys and plucked her giraffeeye up, and put that in first. After all, she couldn’t go anywhere without her giraffe. It was crazy talk if anyone thought differently. OH OH and she needed her blanket for when she got cold. So her favorite fluffy blanket was next, Obviously. Um… what else? Hmmm OH CLOTHES. Mommy and daddy always packed clothes when they went on trips. Um… one shirt would be enough right ? Oh and her favorite white skirt. Okay okay we were getting somewhere. AND THEN AND THEN… she had to bring her spongybobby alarm clock. It was her favoooooriteee. Plucking that up, Shay frowned when the little wire thingy accidentally pulled the picture frame beside it down to the floor and SMASHED it. “DAymN IT.” Oh… Darn… sorry bad word… wait no she was a big gorl. DAMN. IT. Putting her clock down, Shay bent down towards the frame and carefully picked up the back to reveal glass shards allll over the floor. Leaving the frame, Shay grabbed the picture that was now out in the open and her frown grew seeing a photo of her mommy and daddy hugging her. Now now now her daddy didn’t even give her the time of day and it was eeeevveeen worse now that her mom had to leave for a few weeks because she had to go to stuoooopid work 
. That’s why this whole thing started, after all…
Flashback:
Friday:
“DADDY DADDY DADDY” Shay screamed - yelling as she ran inside after the school bus dropped her off. Because her mom was away for a bit, her dad couldn’t drop and pick her up from school but it was fineee because Shay didn’t mind the bus. She got to make new frens like Rachel and Donny and and… and… uh… others (there were toooo many names to go through okay). BUT TODAY WAS EVEN MORE EXCITING. Her teacher gave her a new assignment but but it wasn’t one of those boooooring assignments like maths timetables which were sooooo easy it was an assignment about her ansesssyters. Um… AnCesstorses? Um. HER DADS MOMS DADS MOMS DAD YOU KNOW WHAT SHE’S TALKING ABOUT RIGHT?
Dropping her bags, Shay ran to her dad who was in the kitchen and hugggeeed his legs. “HI DADDY,” Shay smiled, feeling a kiss on her head as her daddy said “Hi sweetheart” back. Her dad had Aidan in his hands and Zoe was sitting in her chair drinking milk. “DADDY guess what happened at school today,” WELL obviously Shay was excited to tell her dad. Who wouldn’t be? But… but before Shay could even tell him Zoe dropped her milk ALLL over the floor and her dad was distracted . It’s okay… Shay helped clean it up but then her dad got busy cleaning Zoe up and giving her a bath and then putting Zoe and Aidan to sleep and then Shay was sooooo tired that she fell asleep before she could even tell her dad about it at all…
Saturday:
Okay okay… Shay didn’t get a chance to tell her daddy about her project yesterday but but she could do it todayyy. She wished she could tell her mom but her mom was busy and couldn’t call… but she would be back soon and she’d tell her mom everyyyything. Anyways, Shay even woke up early so she could run to his room and tell him allll about it. Running to her father’s room as fassst as her little legs would take her, Shay jumped so she could turn the doorknob and pushed it open before JUmmmmmping into bed with a laugh as her daddy tickled her instantly (clearly Shay wasn’t a quiet sneaky girl). “Good morning potato,”
“I’M noooot a potaytayto daddy. I’m a frenchie fryyy” Shay responded immediately. That’s what mama always said when daddy called her a potato so she had to say it too duhhhh but she felt laughter leaving her lips immediately when her dad tickled her and responded with “noooooo you’re my potato”
“Daddy daddy, guess what happened at school yesterday. Miss Daniels gave me an assignment and…”
HERE’S THE PROBLEM. Before SHay could EVEN finish her sentence, Aidan started CRYING and daddy told her to “Hold that thought. Why don’t you go brush your teeth while I go check on Aidan?”
And and you’d think she would have the REST of the day to tell her dad but NOOOOOOO. Aidan was being needy all day because of a bad dream and so she didn’t have time to tell her dad because she had to hang out with Zoe because dad asked her to. Don’t get Shay wrong, she loved her sister and loved playing dolls with her but she wanted to work on her new assignment because it was alllllll about her family and she loved her family
Sunday:
OKAY WHAT THE HECK? HUH? HUHHHH? All Shay wanted to do was sit down and talk to her daddy about her assi…assign…assan…assassin…ment but apparently, he had a call and had to go take photos for work and so Shay was just stuck with her nanny allllll day… THIS WASN"T FAIR… Her nannies were okay… but but they were always busy. Usually, if they weren’t helping zoe or Aidan, they were talking on the phone with they’re friend boys… um… boyfriends? Shay had boy friends too, but but because her dad wasn’t home, she couldn’t invite all her boy and girl friends over.
AND AND THE WORST PART is her daddy didn’t even come home until lllaaaateeeee lateeee and Shay was too tired to tell him anything…
Monday:
EVERYBODY at school was telling their teacher all the cool things they learned about their families over the weekend and how their projects were going and SHAY HAD NOTHING. NOOOOOTHING. ONE PERSON SAID THEIR DAD’S DAD’S DAD KNEW HARRIET TUBBERMAN. ISN’T THAT COOL? What was Shay supposed to say?
So let’s try this again. When Shay came home this time, she was CERTAIN to get time with her dad so she could tell him allllll about what she had to do and so he could help her. Her dad was outside playing soccer with Aidan and Zoe - but zoeee looked boreeeed. How did Shay know this? WELLL the instant Shay came home, Zoe asked if she wanted to play with her dollies. “DADDDYYY,” Shay squealed, ignoring Zoe for a second as she ran to her dad, who smiled and picked her up. “Daddy daddy daddy can I tell you about…”
“Shayyyy let’s goooo playyyy,”
“OW”
Shay looked down and saw that Aidan fell down playing with the ball and her dad forgot all about her again and went to go help Aidan. HMPH. Look Shay wasn’t trying to be mean but Aidan needed to stoooop falling. LEARN SOME COOOOORDIINATIOOONN.
“SHAYYYYYYY C’mooooonnnnn LET"S PLAY WITH DOOLLIEESS”
Shay felt Zoe pulling on her hand, and a frown met her lips. LOOK SHE WAS REALLY FRUSTRATED OKAY SHE HAD BEEN TRYING TO TELL HER DAD ABOUT THIS ONE THING FOR DAYYYYS. “I DON’T WANT TO PLAY WITH YOUR STOOPID DOLLIES,” Shay screamed, pushing Zoe’s hand off of her as she walked over to where Aidan had all of her dad’s attention.
“NO THEY NOT STOOPID”
“YES THEY AREEE”
“SHAY”
Shay heard her dad say her name loudly, giving her a stern look as he turned away from Aidan for a second to face her. Aidan was okay - BY THE WAY - he was already standing and running around and now he was next to Shay pulling on HER HAIR. “Say you’re sorry to your sister”
WHAT DID SHE DO WRONG? NOTHING OKAY NOTHHHING.
“But daddy I wanted to tell you about…”
“Shay you can tell me later but first say sorry for being mean to Zoe,”
AND AND In the middle of all of this AIDAN started EATING Shay’s hair. She felt her hair being pulled and looked at her brother and out of frustration pushed him. She didn’t know she pushed him that hard but then he fell again and THIS time he started crying.
“SHAY… what is up with you today?”
Her dad immediately started consoling her brother paying NO attention to her AGAIN.
“NOTHING I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING AND YOU NEVER PAY ATT…”
Shay felt her sister push her with a frown and out of ANGER she frowned back before screaming “LEAVE ME ALONE,”
“SHAY GRAYLEE DELOUGHREY, If you can’t be nice to your siblings, go to your room this instant. I’ll talk to you about this later.”
“I HATE YOU,” Shay screamed amongst her brother crying and Zoe being mean.
“Go to your room right now, Shay”
“I HATE YOU and I HATE YOU and I HATE YOU,” Shay screamed again looking at her dad and siblings before running back home and to her room.
End of Flashback
WELL now you’re caught up. SEE. Her dad didn’t want her. CLEARLY. SO back to packing. Grabbing the picture, Shay put it in her pocket before going back to her suitcase trying to think about what was next.
Hmm… OH SNACKS. Mama said to never leave home without any snacks. Thatttt was… in the kitchen. Well… This was it. Well… WELL ALMOST. Before she left her room, Shay grabbed a pencil and a piece of paper and in big letters wrote “I’M RUNNWING AWAY BEcAUSE yOU HATE ME” <3 SHAY DELOUGHREY and left that righhhht on her bed. Closing her suitcase, Shay carefully opened the door to her room she had slammed a few minutes ago and walked downstairs to the empty house - empty because her dad was apparently STILL sitting in the backyard with stupid crying Aidan in his hands and Zoe and the doggies next to them. Hmph. They looked happy. Fine…It’s… fine. Go be happy. Shay could be happy too. She would leave and go find her mommy who would help her with her assignment.
With tears falling down her eyes, Shay walked to the fridge and with a lil struggle, she pulled it open and grabbed two juice boxes that she stuffed into the front pocket of her suitcase. Annnnd she also grabbed the soda, annnnd the gummy bears… and the gollllldyfish. and and and she went to the laundry room and grabbed three of those good smelling packets that her mommy and daddy put in with the laundry because it seemed like a thing an adult would need and Shay was a big gorl so she needed it.
Okay DONE. With that, Shay grabbed her suitcase and walked to the front door (not even closing the fridge). Opening the door, Shay closed that behind her and crying harder, she ran to the gate where she walked in eveeerrryyyyyy day from school. Now what would she tell her teacher? She didn’t have a family to write about anymore and and she didn’t have any ancesssytors. It was just her…
So… where did she go… um… well… the only place she knew she could go that would take her faarrrr away was her school bus pick up and drop off so so so she went there. There was a little bench that let allll the kids sit when they were waiting and that’s exactly where she went. Her eyesight was soooooo blurry and Shay could barely see anything because she was sobbing so much, but she was strong and she was a big gorl so she sat down with her ice cream suitcase and waited for the biggggg yellow bus to pick her up. SHe was really going… and… and… never coming back because her daddy didn’t want her and her siblings hated her so it was just… just better that she was gone. Shay didn’t even look up when she saw the blurry figure of someone sitting next to her, she just keeeeppt crying in her hands.
““Conejita, why’re you crying?””
Sniffling, Shay looked over to the pretty girl next to her. “My… my… my daddy… my daddy doesn’t… want me and… and so… so I’m runn…runwing a…away… and…and going to find… my mommy…” Shay cried harder, saying that out loud because really she didn’t want to leave but but her daddy didn’t want her so so she had to be a big gorl. Pulling out the photo from her pocket, Shay gave it to the lady sitting next to her. Shay felt the woman brushing her hair, and Shay instinctively stuffed her face in the woman’s arms to cry some more. Shay didn’t know how to explain it but she felt comfortable around the woman sitting next to her.
“Sweetie, your daddy loves you so much. Like a lot a lot. And I know him, like pretty well, so I know what I’m talking about. If you run away, you know what will happen? Your daddy will be sad forever, crying like you, conejita. Don’t make him cry forever, okay, he’s happy now and I want him to be always happy. Will you do that for your auntie?”
Shay stopped crying for a moment and looked up at the girl again. She had pretty brown hair like her mommy, and kind brown eyes. Instead of tears coming out of her eyes, Shay’s eyes widened at the woman. She knew her daddy? SHE WAS HER AUNTIE? “You…you know my daddy? He… he told me to go away… and and… I tried to tell… to tell him about my my school project but… but he do…doesn’t want to help…help me” Shay started, not knowing what to say but just telling her everything and in the process, calming down because of the woman’s comforting touch.
“Shay, your daddy loves you. Trust me. Can you promise your auntie Aline you’ll go back home to your dad? Try telling him about your project again okay?.”
Why Shay promised? Who knows, but Shay found herself nodding, hugging the woman tighter with her eyes closed.
“SHAY?”
Turning around, Shay saw her daddy running towards her and when he got to her, he picked her up and wrapped his arms tightly around her. “Shay what in the world were you thinking. You’re not allowed to leave the house without me knowing, Ever. EVER. This isn’t okay. We talked about thi-”
“I’m sowwy daddy,” Shay frowned, stuffing her face in her dad’s shoulder as he yelled more. She only continued talking when he stopped. “My…my new friend told me to go back home” Shay added, turning back to face her auntie… but when she did, Auntie Aline wasn’t there anymore… wonder where she disappeared… oh well…
Well… Shay was back home now sitting on her dad’s bed as he opened her suitcase and took the various items out and asking why she needed the “tide-pods”. But but after a while, Shay told her dad allll about her project and and and he finally spent time talking to her about alllll of it and her dad made her promise she would neeeeever try anything like that again (and that she would never talk to strangers too but she was talking to her auntie so was she really a stranger?). Now after hoouuuurssss of doing her project with her dad, Shay found herself sleeping on her daddy’s chest, exhausted after a loooooooong day.
“Daddy” Shay mumbled in exhaustion.
“Yes potato?”
“What’s a Conejita?”
“… why do you want to know baby…”
A yawn left her lips as she stuffed her face in her daddy’s shoulder getting out a few final words before falling asleep in his arms. “Auntie Aline said that at the bus stop when she told me to go home.”
@astxrism - Dorian
@unsungcheerio - Auntie Ghost Aline