Beautiful Girl: Part 5 (With alternate ending!!)

Each and every call was answered
with a machine or a, "Sorry."
How much of these stories was true?
the girl began to worry.

She didn't recall much of that part of her life.
How HAD they escaped her dad?
Then, the phone rang,
just as she was feeling sad.

ENDING 1: (Happy Ending lovers' special)
"I got your message," he said slowly.
"The guy you're seeking has moved."
When she got to the address he gave her,
it was truly proved.

"Hi. I'm Macey," she tested him.
"I know who you are!" he snapped through his wrinkled mouth.
His white hair blew in the breeze.
His accent, from the south.

"Come on in!" he smiled.
"I prayed for this day.
I'm sorry to hear that three years ago,
your mother passed away."

"I just got her journals yesterday,"
she said through his tight grip.
"I've been trying to find you since then.
I was even prepared to take a long trip."

"You saved my life, and I wanna thank you
in the only way I can," she said with a smile.
"I'll be married in two weeks.
Will you walk me down the aisle?"

That he did, and she was happy
to have him in her life,
so he could the wedding,
and watch them be pronounced husband and wife.

The cake was tall.
The dress was white.
The couple was happy.
True delight.

THE END

ENDING 2: (Well... you can guess)

"I got your message," he said slowly.
"The man you're seeking has died.
It all happened yesterday."
She was BARELY too late. Alone, she cried.

After a, "Thank you," and a "Good-bye,"
she dialed to tell Joe,
but before she could talk,
he said something terrible. Before she said hello.

"I gotta call from Dad's roommate.
You never even got to meet Dad.
He had a heart attack!"
Joe sounded more panicked than sad.

They attended the funeral together
in just two days' time.
"He died with all our love and caring," Joe said,
"And he died without a dime."

"He gave us all he had.
He saved my fiance's life.
He's the only one who's tried to help
to get me through my strife."

"Now, Macey will say something.
A few words about my father."
It was raining on this day.
She stared into the pools of water.

When the girl made her speech,
the only thing she had to say,
was, "Without this man's love and compassion,
I wouldn't be here today."

She stood on the muddy hillside
and watched them cover his box with mud.
Just as she could barely see the top of the wooden coffin,
she tossed at it a rosebud.

In her head her mother's speech:
This stands for love and opening up
to the ones that you most love.
Take care of them. Don't let them go.
For they are truly sent to us from up above.