English advanced Discovery Creative Piece - Birthday

3 Pages • Essays / Projects • Year: Pre-2021

“I need to tell you something darling. Something, very, very important. I feel, as if, this time would be the most appropriate”. Isabella’s heart shuddered. Her Dad was not her biological father. A minuscule waterfall slowly began turning into a dark pool of rain water. Her dreamy blue eyes opened, her mind moving a million miles an hour full of endless possibilities whilst her mouth remained stubborn. *** Isabella’s brittle bones pressed up against the dusty wooden frame door of her favourite restaurant ‘Lewis & Clarks Burgers’. From behind, her mothers archaic tone caressed her soul. “Happy Eighteenth Birthday, Isabel!”, a sniffle pushed her forward “I’m so sorry Dad can’t be with us. I really am lovely.” It had been an atrocious week for Isabel & her mother losing their father in the most awful way possible, at the train station. However, all she could think about was this, very, moment. A moment she had been terrified of as a child from the deepest depth’s of her scrambled mind. Everywhere she looked, it reminded her of Dad. All his glory, left behind in the form of the ‘Cayenne Burger’. The salivating steam of bacon, the smoky scent of cheese tickler her taste buds. He had taken, every, single year. To the very same restaurant. From her first birthday. To their last. And not once, got she manage the stomach to unravel the hidden giant. The described delicacy was disregarded as mere chaos on a plate sprawled between border of fat and beef.

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