brandi. (zombiephile) wrote in daiquiri, @ 2009-02-15 22:40:00 |
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Entry tags: | 100 prompts, char: su li, game: life or something like it |
100 Prompts: #21, Memory (Su Li)
Title: Nothing
Characters: Su Li
Setting: Sometime in the future; an unnamed cemetary
Word Count: 280
Summary: As her father is being buried, Su reminisces.
Rating: G
Author's Note: For the 100 Prompts #21: Memory, as requested by sira_ne_biber.
"You should say something," her mother had urged her. "He was your father, after all." Su wanted to say something. She wanted to stand up there in front of her family and her father's friends and tell them all about what a wonderful person her father was, how she cherished the childhood memories with him, how he was loved and would be missed terribly. But she couldn't. Su didn't have one concrete, real, true memory of her father. He was never really there when she was a child: he occasionally was home for mealtimes, but he nearly lived in the hospital. Other fathers were devoted to their children and families; Hwan was devoted to his job. Oh, sure, he was home for Christmas, usually, and Su had never wanted for anything. Yoon was a loving mother who cared for her little girl and raised her. But Hwan was never there. And now Su sat silently in the cemetary, staring at the wooden box that held her father's body, and she tried to conjure up some deeply hidden memory, something that she could hold onto, to remember her father. But there was nothing. No memory of him lifting her up to reach the shelf that was just beyond her reach; no teaching her how to ride her first broomstick; no proud papa taking her to buy her schoolbooks or waving to her from the platform as the train took her away to Hogwarts. No smiling face in the crowd when she won her first award. Nothing. And that was what Su was crying about: not that her father was dead, but that she never knew him, and he never knew her. |