Chapter Twenty
“Everything will be all right, my girl, this was meant to happen.” Adalia’s dad hugged her tight, and then helped her cart her bags over the threshold of his home.
“What do you mean, Dad?” Adalia tugged her bag in, but he lifted it for her and marched it through to her old room. “How will it be all right? I don’t see it right now.”
“Trust me. This is what was meant to happen.”
“Why?”
“Everything in life happens for a reason,” he said simply, as if it was the plainest fact in the world.
“And what’s that?” She looked around the old room with its single bed and plain white dresser.
“The reason is to teach you a lesson. Life wants you to learn something from this and it’s up to you to take that lesson and run with it. Adapt, rethink, stand up fighting.”
“That’s easier sa
