Probably during my dad's last week of his life.
It all started one night, 5 years ago.
Me and my older sister were playing Kingdom Hearts 2, laughing and just hanging out.
My dad came upstairs and got some pizza off the stove and told us to get ready
for bed. We promised we'd finish one last level, then we'd go to bed.
While we were playing, we heard 4 loud thumps, followed by "GOD DAMNIT."
My sister and I were used to our dad swearing alot, knowing he watches football
and all, so we just mocked what he said and continued playing.
Once we finished, I wanted to say goodnight to my dad, so I tried to open the basement door, but it was locked. Being the little sneak I was, I took the key I
knew my mom was trying to hide from us from the bathroom, and unlocked the door.
I opened, and saw him on the floor. I ran down and asked him if he was ok, but all he
said was "Step on my back for me," so I did. After helping him with his back pain, I
noticed a huge softball-sized bump on the back of his head. That scared me.
I ran upstairs and called my mom, who was working at the moment, and said "Dad's
acting weird, he has a bump on his head, please come home!" My older sister didn't
know what had happened, so she took the phone from me in the middle of my frantic
speech and told my mom that I was just freaking out.
Luckily, my mom got the message that something's up. She came home and stayed
downstairs for a while. I wanted to check up on them, and when I opened the door,
my mom was crying and said "Can we have some alone time, please?" I got scared
about my father's health, and *tried* to go to sleep. When I woke up that morning,
I went to my mom in her bedroom and said "We should check up on dad."
So she did, and I waited for a few minutes, until she came running up the stairs in
shock and called 911. "She noticed the bump on his head," I thought, and soon, while
I was watching everything go on outside with the ambulance lights, the paramedics
came to take him to the hospital. I remember hearing that he puked
blood on the carpet downstairs.
He was in the hospital for about a week. He was put on an automatic breathing
machine, and every day that week, my extended family would visit him.
He started to get fluid in his lungs, and his brain had major damage (They had to
remove the personality part of his brain), so my mom thought that it was his time.
We took him off the machine. That was it. The scariest moment of my life.
The service was short, my cousins treated the place as if it was a playground.
My teachers showed up, even some friends of my friends showed up.
Everyone felt so bad for my family, knowing he died when I was only 12.