Broke Me Short Story

The Text that Broke Me
A man in relation to his natural child or children: the definition of a father. By this standard, my father has succeeded; but believe me when i say that that is the one and only way he has lived up to the title of father.
I was very young and my brother and I had to go to Joel’s (my father) house on the weekends. There was no responsible adult, no supervision, and no feeling of home. My brother and i shared a couch for a bed, we rode on the laps of our step siblings, or in the bed of the truck, and of course, there was the omnipresent smell of tobacco, beer, and cigarettes. After we moved to California, i looked back at the times at Joel’s house as being not great, but I continued to believe that Joel wasn’t all bad and that he would change for the better. Boy, was i wrong. …show more content…
I lived with my brother, stepbrother, mom, and stepdad in California. Joel was finally coming to visit from Montana. I was so excited to see him. To be with him. My father. Lane and i were finally going to have time with our dad to play and be a family together; but life rarely works out the way that we mean for it to. At the time, however, I could see no way that his trip could go wrong or bring about any bitter feelings - then came the text. That terrible text that changed my world, crushed my naive hopes, and finally wiped the dream-like clouds from my eyes to reveal clearly the coward standing in a place where a once respectable (or so i had thought) man had stood. The text that explained that Joel was going to use his money to visit his stepson in Florida rather than his only two biological children, Lane and