Dracula
06-13-2003, 12:09 PM
June 13, 1999... An exact week before Father's Day... It was around the beginning of summer, so of course, I slept in... My father walked into the room to calmly wake me up... "HEY SEAN!!!" I jump, almost fell flat on my ass on the floor... He just laughs and says, "Wow, you slept like 12 hours last night..." I look at the clock, saying 11:54... I look out the window, it seemed like a huge flood from all the rain the night before...
So, it just seemed like a normal Sunday... Well, My dad worked 6 days a week, almost 10 hours a day... So, normal Sunday, I ate breakfast, It was just perfect... No problems with him, we talked about things like we always did, about the tractors we worked on, his old El Comino that he raced with, video games that we always played (Castlevania brought many memories with him), how his life was comparable to That 70's Show, basically things from his childhood and teen years...
This was around the time that I really got to know the guy well... As a kid, I remember being scared of him whenever I did something wrong, wether it was his loud roar-like yelling, or just how frickin' HUGE the guy was... (6' 4", arms that seeed to belong to a gorilla (with a little less hair)... just huge)... But when you're a good kid, he was the nicest guy...
So, we're talking, and my mom and sister come home... Since my mom and dad were seperated, my mom lived in a small apartment in town... My sister speant the night there... Since it was a week before father's day, my sister gave my dad a card early... It was cute, it said something like
"*picture of a bald guy representing a dad* Dad, I know that in the past that I made you 'lose it'... *open card* ...I decided to give it back... *a little piece of air in the middle* Happy Father's Day"...
Ok, so the guy was almost bald, but he let it poke fun at him... Well, I felt bad, since I didn't have anything yet... So, then my other sister drops by to grab a few things, since she was going out with some friends... Right after she left, my dad said "Dammit, where did Jen go?" my mom told him she left already... "Shit... I just wanted to say I love her..." The wierd thing is, that he was so nice to us that day, he just kept saying how much he loves us, especially to my mom because of the rough relationship... But he was just happy all day, it seemed perfect...
So (hmmm... how do I start this...) I guess I walked into the kitchen, I went and grabbed a Pepsi or something... My mom and dad were talking... and my mom was beginning to leave the room... So, my dad gets up from his chair... "...oh, shit..." My mom looks at him, asking what's wrong... My dad just stood there with this weird look on his face... and falls back... The entire house shook as he hit the floor, and he's just gasping for air, just laying there... My sister called 911, my dad wasn't moving... his face was turning blue... My mom tries CPR, but nothing... Because of how wet the roads were, it took really long for the Ambulence to arrive... They finally come, I tell them where he's at... I just ran into my room and started praying to God that nothing would happen... The started CPR, the tried shocking him... They carry him out on a strethcer... Right as the carry him out, my grandma from my mom's side of the family (aka the coolest grandma in the world) came to see what was going on, since my sister called her too... As soon as she saw him being carried into the ambulence, she burst into tears... The ambulence takes off, we drive off to the hospital...
We get there, we get to the ER entrance... I look into the waiting room, the paramedics were chatting, laughing, just amongst themselves... As soon as they saw us walk in, it was silence... A doctor walks up to us... "Is this the family?" so, he's explaining to us what happened, I didn't really understand, I was just waiting to hear how he's doing... The doctor ends his little explanation with "...I'm terribly sorry for your loss..." and walks back into the ER... My heart just skipped a beat as he said that, I just felt sick... How could someone seem like the happieast guy in world, and then he's gone... The rest of the day, I just sat there thinking how the hell the day could go wrong... I finally got the chance to see him... The only way I could describe it was as if he was sleeping... All of us had to head home... I didn't want to... I didn't know what I wanted to do... I just went home and cried myself to sleep...
I wake up the next moring, wondering what the hell happened... I just get up, get dressed, walked into my moms room... She's just sitting there in disbelief... I said to her "Did I just have a nightmare?" she just looks to me and says "I wanted to ask the same thing..."
So, it just seemed like a normal Sunday... Well, My dad worked 6 days a week, almost 10 hours a day... So, normal Sunday, I ate breakfast, It was just perfect... No problems with him, we talked about things like we always did, about the tractors we worked on, his old El Comino that he raced with, video games that we always played (Castlevania brought many memories with him), how his life was comparable to That 70's Show, basically things from his childhood and teen years...
This was around the time that I really got to know the guy well... As a kid, I remember being scared of him whenever I did something wrong, wether it was his loud roar-like yelling, or just how frickin' HUGE the guy was... (6' 4", arms that seeed to belong to a gorilla (with a little less hair)... just huge)... But when you're a good kid, he was the nicest guy...
So, we're talking, and my mom and sister come home... Since my mom and dad were seperated, my mom lived in a small apartment in town... My sister speant the night there... Since it was a week before father's day, my sister gave my dad a card early... It was cute, it said something like
"*picture of a bald guy representing a dad* Dad, I know that in the past that I made you 'lose it'... *open card* ...I decided to give it back... *a little piece of air in the middle* Happy Father's Day"...
Ok, so the guy was almost bald, but he let it poke fun at him... Well, I felt bad, since I didn't have anything yet... So, then my other sister drops by to grab a few things, since she was going out with some friends... Right after she left, my dad said "Dammit, where did Jen go?" my mom told him she left already... "Shit... I just wanted to say I love her..." The wierd thing is, that he was so nice to us that day, he just kept saying how much he loves us, especially to my mom because of the rough relationship... But he was just happy all day, it seemed perfect...
So (hmmm... how do I start this...) I guess I walked into the kitchen, I went and grabbed a Pepsi or something... My mom and dad were talking... and my mom was beginning to leave the room... So, my dad gets up from his chair... "...oh, shit..." My mom looks at him, asking what's wrong... My dad just stood there with this weird look on his face... and falls back... The entire house shook as he hit the floor, and he's just gasping for air, just laying there... My sister called 911, my dad wasn't moving... his face was turning blue... My mom tries CPR, but nothing... Because of how wet the roads were, it took really long for the Ambulence to arrive... They finally come, I tell them where he's at... I just ran into my room and started praying to God that nothing would happen... The started CPR, the tried shocking him... They carry him out on a strethcer... Right as the carry him out, my grandma from my mom's side of the family (aka the coolest grandma in the world) came to see what was going on, since my sister called her too... As soon as she saw him being carried into the ambulence, she burst into tears... The ambulence takes off, we drive off to the hospital...
We get there, we get to the ER entrance... I look into the waiting room, the paramedics were chatting, laughing, just amongst themselves... As soon as they saw us walk in, it was silence... A doctor walks up to us... "Is this the family?" so, he's explaining to us what happened, I didn't really understand, I was just waiting to hear how he's doing... The doctor ends his little explanation with "...I'm terribly sorry for your loss..." and walks back into the ER... My heart just skipped a beat as he said that, I just felt sick... How could someone seem like the happieast guy in world, and then he's gone... The rest of the day, I just sat there thinking how the hell the day could go wrong... I finally got the chance to see him... The only way I could describe it was as if he was sleeping... All of us had to head home... I didn't want to... I didn't know what I wanted to do... I just went home and cried myself to sleep...
I wake up the next moring, wondering what the hell happened... I just get up, get dressed, walked into my moms room... She's just sitting there in disbelief... I said to her "Did I just have a nightmare?" she just looks to me and says "I wanted to ask the same thing..."