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“Frankie!” Tracy burst through the door with a huge smile on her face.
I was in the middle of putting Lily to sleep. I guess that plan was out the window.
Lily burst into tears and I looked at Tracy and shot her a ‘great, now look what you’ve done’ kind of look.
“Real nice, Trace” I said sarcastically as I picked up Lily and rocked her back and forth in my arms.
“Oh have a cry, princess pie” Tracy teased.
“You’re doing it all wrong, gimme” she took Lily out of my arms and started quietly singing her this lullaby that I had never heard before. After about 1 minute, Lily was sound asleep.
I looked at Tracy with my jaw dropped down to my toes.
“Okay, how the hell did you dot that?!” I asked while Tracy put Lily in her crib.
“Oh, she just needed a women’s touch” Tracy smiled.
It was silent for a few seconds….until Tracy broke the silence.
“So, anyways the reason I came down here is to tell you that uh…Emily’s brother, Dayne is coming down this weekend….he wants to meet his niece” she looked over at Lily.
“Oh” I said.
“Well I better go…I’m going shopping with the girls for our senior prom dresses” Tracy giggled excitingly.
“Holly hell, senior Proms this Friday isn’t it?” I asked.
“Uh-huh…you know Frankie, you can still go…even though you dropped out of school, Mr. Scarchelli said that you can still come” Tracy said.
I looked at the floor remembering junior prom…and how Emily looked so beautiful in her gold dress and her curled hair. I bit my lip and looked back at Tracy.
“Nah, I have to look after Lily and …you know…” I trailed off.
Tracy was about to say something but then stopped. I could tell that she knew why I didn’t want to go. I didn’t want to go. It would be too hard remembering junior Prom that I spent with Emily.
“Yeah, okay” Tracy smiled and pursed her lips.
We walked over to the door in silence.
“I’ll see you tomorrow….and Frankie, whenever you need someone to look after Lily, Gerard and I can always-
“Yeah, I know” I smiled and hugged Tracy goodbye.
I shut the door and walked back to the living room to where Lily was sleeping. I could tell she wanted a Mom. Like Tracy said, she just needs a women’s touch.
The door bell chimed and I slowly got up and walked to the door….. Thinking that it was one of the guys, or girls. I opened the door…and to my surprise it was Dayne. Emily’s brother.
“Uh…hi, I’m d-
“Dayne” I cut him off as I put out my hand.
“Hey” he smiled and shook my hand.
“Come in!” I smiled and stood aside to let him come in.
He came in and instantly saw the crib that was in the living room.
“Oh….my god” he whispered and peering inside the crib.
“She’s absolutely gorgeous” he gasped and looked at me.
“Yeah she is” I grinned and went into the kitchen.
“Do you wanna beer…or something” I called out.
“Yeah sure” Dayne called back still looking at Lily intensely.
“She looks so much like Emily”
“Uh-huh” I smiled and handed Dayne a beer.”
“And at the same time, she looks exactly like you too” he laughed.
“Yeah, so I’m told”
It was silent for a while. Dayne spent about 45 minutes looking at photos of Emily and I.
“She was so beautiful….it was just … so unexpected” he trailed off looking at the floor.
“I just can’t believe the accident was three months ago. It feels like was just yesterday” He said, his eyes growing moist.
“Yeah…. So anyways, are you in collage?” I asked, trying to change the subject. I hated talking about it. I hate remembering that day. Every time someone would bring it up…I would just always try so hard not to brake down.
“Yeah….I’m studying law”
“That’s cool” I replied
“What are you planning on doing?” he asked me.
“Well my friends and I are starting a band. I mean we’ve already started…we just have to get out there”
Dayne nodded and there was that awkward silence again.
“Uh…so I basically came down here to meet Lily. And so….I better be going” he slowly got up.
“Oh, okay um….do you want anything of Emily’s or-
“Actually yeah, is it okay if I have this photo of her?”
I looked at the photo he was holding. It was the photo I took at junior prom.
“Sure” I smiled lightly and we walked over towards the door.
“It was nice meeting you, frank” he hugged me
“Yeah it nice meeting you to” I smiled back.
I shut the door and heard Lily crying.
I walked over to her crib and slowly lifted her up.
“Aw baby its okay, daddies here” I cooed.
“I love you so much baby, so much”