Reflective Essay: An Important Person In My Life

I look through the paper as my heart stops. Write about an important person in your life.

I sigh and lift up the pen, I have to breathe and think of him. I still have some memories left from him even if they are blurry.

His eyes were brown, a light brown that I never inherit sadly though I’m happy that I inherit his brown locks and his creamy light skin and his positive personality even with some struggles.

I stop and search for a picture of him which is under my table I can’t have it around because I know how emotional my mom becomes when she sees it.

There he is with the backpack in his back and the sun on his shoulders, on the way to cross the road to Brazil’s biggest forest. He told my mom that it was his life’s biggest adventure. I myself want to do

I’m not calling her even though I want to hear her soothing voice. I look outside.

There are no stars, not a single one. “Wake up!” I hear a squeaky voice and two small hands on my cheeks. I groan because of the weight on my lap. I open my eyes slowly and see two small green eyes looking at me. “Are you my dad?”

“What? No” I groan and regret. “Lily!” I hear in the background and see Tess holding a teddy bear. “Breakfast is ready” Tess informs me as she helps me to sit on my chair. Her daughter Lily observes everything. She’s only three years old and asks way too many questions.

“Okay, Lily this is Lucian. He’s my friend and he’s going to stay here for a couple of weeks okay?” she explains to her daughter with all the patience in the world. Lily nods and stares at me for a very long time it’s starting to get very creepy.

“Let’s have some breakfast I have to go to work” she tells me. Shit what the hell am I going to do? “James is coming over, he takes care of Lily”

“James?” I ask her. “Yeah we have known each other before the therapy of happiness”

“Really?” I ask as I eat my French toast with Nutella. I’m starting to like this. “He used to go my school and was friends with