Dad? Please Don't Freak Out (Nick)

[Rachel Kells]

Picking up the phone Rachel dialed the well known number of her father. She was back and school and frankly weird stuff was happening. She didn't know what was going on and she didn't know what to do. She couldn't tell her mom, but her dad, her dad would know what to do. Right? He did work with them all the time....

Wait, now, she was getting ahead of herself. It wasn't as if she was sure yet. She still didn't know if it was true. She had better find out though. When she had gotten her period over Christmas break it wasn't fun, but she was glad she was growing up! She hoped she could become more like her mom. It was more of a scary thing though. As the weeks went by, and she and her mom went on that trip to butterfly world in Florida, she started to notice something weird.

Well at first it wasn't weird, they were in butterfly world, but it was the fact that after that the butterflies started to follow her around. All throughout the week to Florida butterflies were flittering around her. It was pretty cool actually, but when she had gotten back to the city, that was when things were weird.

Before she knew it she was getting headaches upon headaches, and she was dizzy a lot. Not to mention the butterflies were flying around. A lot along with the fact that they were talking to her! They kept admiring the flowers, and landing in her hair. Apparently it looked like a flower to them. This was definitely weird.

Now she was gonna call her dad. He would know what was going on. She could trust him... She just hoped it wasn't true. If it was he might hate her.Hearing the phone ring Rachel shifted from one foot to another trying to keep calm.

"Daddy....I love you... I'm scared dad..." She didn't know what else to say. All she could do was hope he wouldn't freak out on her. She hoped she was wrong too, but it would be cool to be a meta. "Don't freak out ok... I think I'm a meta...."

She looked around trying to whisper. She didn't want her mom to hear this. "Butterflies fly around and talk to me, and they follow me. Am I crazy daddy? I'm scared..."

All she needed was her daddy to tell her what to do.

[Nicholas Kells]

Nick was looking over some paperwork when the phone rang. Normally, he would have frowned at the interruption but his thoughts had been unfocused already. He couldn’t help but notice how different things were without his daughter around. It had taken some getting used to after she went back to school in the fall. And even though she had visited some over Christmas break, in some way that only felt like a tease. There had to be someway he could see her more often.

He’d do just about anything to have his little girl in his life more.

He recognized the voice on the other end of the line as soon as he picked up the phone. Smiling, he started to tell Rachel how he had just been thinking about her when the upset tone of her voice registered.

“Rachel? Everything okay honey?” he asked, worried.

For a moment he wondered if it had something to do with her…development over Christmas break. She had called to tell him. And hadn’t that been one heck of an awkward conversation. He tried to sound pleased and proud. Still it was hard realizing his little girl was changing. Nick wasn’t sure he was ready.

Butterflies? Nick literally dropped the phone, managing to catch it before it crashed into the floor. Still his hand was slightly shaking. This cannot be happening, he thought as he madly searched for any sort of explanation other than…no…he wouldn’t even acknowledge that option.

“Honey…Rachel…Calm down,” he told her, although he was half talking to himself. “Are you sure you’re not just imagining it? Have to talked to your mother?”

[Rachel Kells]

God she hoped she wasn't going crazy. She knew it was odd and weird and she was a freak. After all normal people didn't have butterflies following her around, they didn't talk to them. They didn't bring her flowers and put them on her hair. Butterflies did not normally do that.She hoped she wasn't going crazy.

Even if she was she knew her daddy would know what to do. He could fix anything.

She hoped she was doing the right thing. That much was clear by the concern in her voice as her words came out. She didn't want to make him angry or sad or happy. She just wanted her daddy, and her daddy seemed to be preoccupied.

Even though he wasn't there she shook her head no. "No daddy... I'm scared..help me daddy."

Well in a way it did have something to do with her period, I mean she had never had anything happen like this before! Rachel shook her head at the phone hoping that her crying wasn't that evident, trying to hold it all in. "I'm sorry daddy."

She didn't know what to say, or do or anything. It was just silent on the other end of the phone, maybe he was thinking, maybe he had hung up. She was scared, what if she did wrong? "Daddy? you there?" She was worried she had done something wrong.

"Mom has been really busy lately, and it started happening when mom and I went down to Florida! They just kept following me around! I don't know what to do, am I a freak Daddy?" Pouting on the other end of the phone she blubbered trying to get across that she wasn't imagining it. "No. Its real." She was just sorry.