Father's Day 2021 SOLO

Simon Ezra Kincaid. He was born in the early morning hours of Saturday, February 14th in 2009, before the sun even made it's way up past the horizon that fell upon the City of London. At his young mother's side, a girl of just seventeen, stood her fourteen year old sister there for support but also so she wouldn't be left alone, as the older girl was in charge of the younger. Their parents had died sadly in an accident that occurred earlier that year leaving Arabella Kincaid to manage things for herself and her sister, Margaret (Maggie).

Somewhere within her unsorted belongings back in South Kensington rested a bound book where she described her trials through the most difficult times of her life. It would show that:



At first she was on a journey through all seven stages of grief: shock and denial; pain and guilt; anger and bargaining; anger and depression. It was during this time that she met a striking man with old world demeanor and manners, who spoke to her like no one she had heard before. The man seemed to worship her and made her the center of his world and for once she could be cared for instead of the one taking charge.

She would continue through the stages: the upward turn; reconstruction and working through; acceptance and hope. Things were now going well for her although she kept her private life - private. Such things weren't something that she needed to discuss with her sister who was only fourteen.

The days turned into weeks, the weeks into months and soon the man's caring seemed to turn into controlling. He wanted to be with her always and know where she was at all times. Then, the more time she spent with him the more moments occurred in which she realized that something just didn't feel right in the relationship; that something was off. At times, there was something almost unsettling about the man.

She fled.

She would cut off all communication with him and all contact and decided that she would not turn back. If she had told him how she felt or asked for clarification she feared that somehow things would become dangerous for her and her sister, so it was better to just be done.

It grew complicated though just days after the decision when she found out she was expecting a child. Did she go back? Her intuition told her not to. So she didn't.

She never mentioned his name, she never mentioned what he looked like. She never contacted him to let him know he was to be a father. Complete and sudden withdrawl.

So Simon Ezra Kincaid would come into the world without any knowledge of the man that created him and just over three years later his mother would leave this world with that same knowledge.



And without knowledge of this book existing, Simon would remain ignorant to any knowledge of this man.

Did he wonder who he was?

Did he wonder what he was like?

Hadn't he wondered where he is?

Every. Single. Day.

Simon sat in the Library, pondering about it on this particular Sunday. It was June 20, 2021, Father's Day, and today more than ever, Simon was thinking about him.