The mistake
There he was, alone in the pouring rain, wondering if this was it. Denny was just standing there looking back at the house he just came out from. His back is hurting and he has bruising on the arms and legs. He is holding 2000kr in his left hand and wondering if this is the life he has to live to survive. Two years back Denny was happily married to a lovely wife had three happy children and a big beautiful house right by the coast. Then one little mistake took al of that away from him. His wife sued Danny and took al the money and children. From that moment Danny hade no home, no family and no money, His parents had past away some years earlier and he was the only child. He was al alone.
Slowly Danny starts to walk towards his car, a tear drops from his cheek. Danny sits down in his car, closes his eyes and dreams back to the time when he had a family who loved him and just longed for him to come home. Suddenly a man knocks on the window and Danny rolled it down and the man starts to speak. “Shall we say same time next Wednesday?” Danny answers “yea that will be fine” and the man went back to the house that Danny just had came out from. Before the man goose inside the house he turns around and shout’s “Dam it Danny your one fine screaming bitch” The man had a silver coloured bathrobe, dark green slipper and he had a cigar in his mouth. The man’s white curly hair was al wet and it looked like he just had come out from a shower. Danny starts the car en turns on the radio. On the radio they played Danny’s favorite song “November Rain” and when the singer sing’s out “Because nothing last forever, even cold November rain” a little light of hope started to shine in Danny’s heart. Funny enough, it was raining just this night and Danny starts to laugh a bit.
The time was 21:50 and when Danny looked in his papers he noticed that he had to be at his next client in just ten minuets. When he arrives at the next house a young black haired and black dressed girl comes running towards the car, opens the door and shouts at Danny “DRIVE DRIVE”. She is al sweaty and looks out of one’s senses. From the house comes a man running with a big shotgun in his hands and starts shooting at the car. “Shit” Screams Danny and stamps on the gas. He drives for two miles and then stops at a gas station. These two human beings had not sad a word to one another on the entire way but now Danny ask the girl “ okay what the fuck was that al about and how are you?” The girl looks up at Danny and looks straight in to his eyes. “Don’t you remember me?” Danny just shakes his head. “I’m your daughter!” The girl throws her hair back and Danny now sees it. It’s his fourteen year old daughter. He couldn’t se it when she came running because she had al of her hair hanging down over her face and when Danny last meet her, she had short blonde hair. Back then she looked like a little princes and now she looked like a hooker. Danny throws his arms around her. But she just backs away and says “Dad please, I’m not the same girl now that I was when you left us. I’m just an illusion of what I used to be and you can’t put your arms around a memory” Danny starts to stare straight a head and says “first I didn’t leave, I got throw out and your mother made sure that I wasn’t aloud to see or meet you. She took al of my money and I was thrown out on the street. “Dad” the girl says don’t lie to your self it wasn’t her fault that your marriage became fucked up, it was your fault. So don’t blame her for it, it was your mistake who fucked up our family”. That light of hope in Danny’s heart had just been blown out and he felt al shattered again. “But just tell me one ting, what did you do in that mans house? I was doing the same ting that you did earlier this day at other men’s houses, waving my as in the air and lay me on the bed so other men can use me for money. Yes dad I’m a prostitute just like you” The girl opens the door and starts walking away from the car in the rain. Danny felt like a spoon was trying to cut his heart in two and he rolls down his window and begging the girl to come back but she never did.
By: Alexander Lönn
