CAMILLEI grabbed my phone off the mattress the moment it rang, I know I said I wouldn't call Aurelio again but it didn't mean I wasn't still expecting he called back.My face fell when It wasn't Aurelio.I stared at my father's name on the screen for a moment, the disappointment settling in my stomach Andi sighed then picked up."Papa""Camille." His voice was warm the way it always was, unhurried. "How are you, sweetheart?""I'm fine," I said. "I'm good.""You haven't been home in a while." I paused and sighed.“I'm…I'm around” I said, my voice refusing to come out."Keisha’s been coming home a lot more than my own daughter, has your papa done something wrong?” He asked.“No papa, you've done nothing wrong”“So where have you been, honey?"I looked at Aurelio's jacket still hanging over the chair by the window."Paris," I said finally, and the silence that followed was nerve wrecking, I expected more than silence from him, papa never liked it when I travelled without telling him."
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