“Come on, get up. Breakfast is ready.” She scooped Naomi up, embracing her, and carried her down the steps. The smell of bacon and eggs filled the house. The sound of pots and pans banging together greeted the mother and daughter to the kitchen. “Good Morning Princess!” her father said as he kissed Naomi’s forehead. Naomi’s eyes widened as her father placed a plate full of crispy bacon and scrambled eggs in …show more content…
Wrapping her arms around the little girl, she felt her stomach drop. “How am I going to explain the deployment to a five year-old?” she thought to herself. “How’s your breakfast baby?” “It’s yummy.” Naomi replied as she bit into a piece of bacon, savoring the perfectly crisp piece. “Baby I have something to tell you. Daddy’s job needs him to leave next month and he might not be allowed to come home for a while.” “What?” Naomi asked, stuffing her face full of food. Grace sat next to her daughter, unsure of what to say next. She needed to find an ultimatum between telling her daughter the brutal truth of where her father was going and completely sugar coating his deployment, but she found herself at a loss of words. “Daddy needs to go on a trip to help Mr.Stanton fight the bad guys. He might have to go away for a while, but we will write him letters and he can come home and visit sometimes.” “I don’t want Daddy to go away, please don’t go away.” Naomi turned to face her father, a confused look on her face.Taking a deep breath he walked over to his daughter. “It’s going to be okay baby, it’s all okay.” She grabbed her father’s soft cotton shirt, hugging him