Username: Golden-Boy
Name: Alexander
Gender: Male
Memory:
"My favorite memory, huh...well that's hard to really pinpoint. Thankfully, my life has been filled with good memories, but I never really pinned down my absolute favorite memory. Except...well, if I had to choose one. It'd be when my father came home from what he called his...'final journey'. When he left, me and my entire family were scared about what that meant, especially since me and my brother were only about five at the time. We didn't even know why he was going to be gone for so long, but our mother knew, and she was devastated. She never told us though.
Fifteen years later, and me and my brother had just sort of accepted that our father would never return, even if my mother continued to look out the window of our house to see if he'd return one day. Sometimes, she'd bolt up and scream that he was home, but it turned out that she was just imagining things. We had gotten used to this, and would just calm her down enough so that she could sleep.
One day, though, she did more than just yell that our father was home, She bolted out of her chair and ran outside. Me and my brother chased after her, thinking she had finally lost her mind and was going to get hurt. But when we got outside, there he was. He was injured, he looked tired, and he looked messy, but he was there. I thought I was hallucinating for a good minute as I watched my mom fall into his embrace and start crying tears of joy, but soon enough I started crying too, running over to see if it was real. It was, and I never felt so much joy in seeing someone I hadn't seen in years. He had returned with something for all of us. A beautiful necklace for my mother, a doll that my brother had always wanted for my brother, and for me...he pulled out a small piece of fabric that seemed to sparkle like the stars. I was shocked, I had started searching for this type of fabric only a few years ago. I asked him how he knew I wanted it, and he told me that he had been watching over us during his journey.
But the gifts weren't the best part of that memory. The best part of that memory was seeing my family whole again, like it always should have been."