The Woman Who Sold Stillness [chapter 3]
Lilly’s mother was diagnosed with cancer a few weeks before she turned 18. Some of their relatives came to the hospital on the day of her birthday, and they all celebrated it together.
Before blowing out the candles, Lilly closed her eyes real tight and wished for her mother to get better. Unfortunately, she couldn’t stop her mother’s illness, who passed away a couple of days later.
Her father showed up for the funeral and she was really glad to see him. They talked and cried for hours and, at the end of the day, he asked her to move in with him.
She thought about how good it would be to live in another city with her father, but she didn’t like his girlfriend very much. Her father said that nothing was more important to him than his daughter, and that his girlfriend would have no problem in moving out.
Lilly said goodbye to a few of her friends and, 2 weeks after the funeral, she moved to her father’s. He did the best he could to make her feel comfortable in his apartment, but it took a while before she could called it home.
After 4 months, they adopted a cat together and called him Gulliver. Her mother never liked the idea of having pets, so she was very excited about it.
One day, during breakfast, they saw Gulliver chasing after a moth. When it flew out the window, the cat quickly jumped to the ledge, which made Lilly scream her lungs out.
Her father told her not to worry and walked towards him, very slowly. He called Gulliver several times, but the cat wouldn’t even turn its head.
That was the day Lilly told her father what she could do.
