The day my dad died

I left for school like any other day. I had gone for a walk with our dogs with my dad after breakfast. He stopped at the new agents & bought me a bag of sweeties. Rainbow Krystal. It's basically a bag of sugar with food colourant. I always used my finger & it got stained with the colourants. Posh, kids got a lolly to go with it & dip, like a dib dab. I remember my mom rushing me out the door & shouting like I did every morning....'Love you! She you later' or something to that affect. After school, I was met by my best friends mom. She was my neighbour. She asked if i wanted to come for tea. I, of course, said I'd love to but to ask my mom. She said my mom had sent her.... This was weird. This was not the usual in our house. Although play dates & going out till the street light came on, it was always agreed upon 1st. Mom hadn't said anything about s play date? It got late & after dinner & playing with my friend & her brother all evening with no reading or homework given, I was invited for a sleepover. Again, I say, if it's ok with my mom. (A sleepover on a school night! what was going on?) In the morning, they asked what I wanted for breakfast & my dad would do cearial with warm wilk. They tried but heated the milk in a pan & it was disgusting. I started to get upset. I wanted my normal breakfast & the morning walk with my dad & the dogs. I got wisked off to school & it was a normal day. However, when I got home, the kitchen was filled with my siblings. My dad was not there. My mom was in her usual chair but looked tearful. My brothers & sister were standing with their partners & nobody was smiling! I ran to my mom knowing something was very wrong. She didn't even need to say it. My dad was gone! He'd had a Stoke, blood clot & died. She didn't want me to see him like that, so she hadn't let me say goodbye to him. (I have hated her for that for so long!)