Stare

Dell took another swig from his beer, and on his other hand, holding a teddy bear that was topped with a hard hat, goggles and was wearing small handmade overalls. He stares blankly into space once more.

“Daddy! Daddy! Look!” A little red headed girl approached her busy dad inside his garage. The man paused to give attention to his daughter, he lifted his welding mask and looks down at his daughter who was holding a stuffed animal. “What you got there, honey?” He asked and wiped the sweat from his forehead. “I dressed my teddy bear! L-Like you, daddy.”. Dell chuckled and smiled, the teddy bear does look like him. “Ain’t that a cute li’l bear.” He took it from his daughter who was holding it up to him. “I made it look like you so w-when you go back to work, I won’t get lonely…and it will remind me of you, Daddy” The man gave her another sweet smile and puts his hand over her shoulder. “You’ll be coming back, right?” She asked. “Of course.” He said without a doubt.

The drunk engineer smiled at the memory that he recalled, and then he remembered another thing which melted the smile right off his face.

“She was sick and you weren’t there…”