“I thought you didn't care,” she said.
“You were wrong!” he said. He raised her skirt and pulled her panties up tight, baring a good portion of her generous cheeks. “I care just as much about that little girl as you do. Just because my methods are different to yours, doesn’t make them wrong.”
Destiny felt a hard thud and a fire ignited. “Stop!” she yelled.
He didn’t stop. Justin’s hard hand bounced off the already blushing cheeks that were framed by her hiked-up underwear. “I was trying to go and talk to our daughter, but instead you continued to bait me, you wanted an argument,” He pummeled her pink cheeks with hefty whacks. “Well, you got one.”
“I’m sorry! I was worried!” Destiny yelled. She tried to put her hand back to protect her assaulted rear end but her wrist was caught in Justin’s large paw.
“When I tell you to stop, you better take that as a warning,” he said, continuing to turn her bottom a deep shade of pink. “Do you understand?”
Every one of his words was punctuated with a hard spank and Destiny would have been completely stupid if she didn’t understand. “Yes, I’m sorry,” she wailed.
“Good,” Justin said. He pulled her up to sit on his knee and kissed her forehead.
“That hurt,” Destiny said with a sniffle. She wiped her face with his t-shirt.
“Thanks,” he said.
“You’re very welcome.” Destiny wanted to poke out her tongue or actually blow her nose but she held back because she valued sitting more than revenge and she really didn’t think it was the time to push her luck.
“Your attitude could do with some improvement,” he said rubbing her back gently.
“That hurt, Justin,” she said. She felt justified in having a small amount of attitude.
“And it could have been avoided. If you keep pushing, you have to expect to get what you're looking for.” Justin gave her another quick kiss. “Now, if you don’t have anything else to say, I will go and talk to Sophia.”
“No,” she said. “I’m all good.” There was a time to cut your losses and shut up and this was that time.
* * *
Justin knocked on Sophia’s door and waited for her to tell him to come in. He wanted to open up the lines of communication, not close them by barging his way in. It could be that it would take a while though. “Sophia?”
“I’m reading,” she said.
“I want to talk to you for a minute,” he said.
“Come in then, I guess.”
As he walked through the door, he saw Sophia open the book that was on her bedside table and started reading. “Hi,” he said. “I’m glad you like the book.”
“I did, I mean I do,” Sophia said. She continued to pretend that she was reading.
Justin took the book and placed it on the bed. “Sophia, I want you to tell me what’s wrong,” he said. He held up his hand to stop her protests. “I know you're going to say there is nothing wrong but your mother and I know there is something very wrong. We just want to help you but we can’t do that if you don’t say what the problem is.”
“Why can’t you just leave me alone?” Sophia asked.
Justin’s forehead crinkled with worry. Maybe the way she had gone around it was wrong but Desi had been right to worry, something was wrong here. “Is it the rules, Sophia?” he asked. “Is that was has you so upset?”
“No, Lily-Grace has rules, I don’t mind having rules.”
So she wanted to be like Lily-Grace, that was a clue. “Honey, we could play these guessing games or you could tell me what was bothering you,” he said. “You can tell me anything.”
“There isn't anything I want to tell you I swear,” Sophia said.
“Hmm,” Justin said. “Nothing you want to tell me?” He smiled and kissed her cheek.
“If it’s what you want, I’ll leave you for a bit but I want you to know that I’m your daddy and I love you. When you’re ready, come and talk to me. I’m a good listener.” He hoped she would confide in him when she’d had the chance to think things through. He stood and opened the door.
“If you love me, why don’t you want me to call you Daddy?” Sophia asked, her eyes filled with tears.
Oh damn, is that what she thought? How would the child have come to that conclusion? He closed the door and sat back down on the bed, gathering Sophia in his lap. He had to take a big breath to be able to choke out the words. “Why would you think that I wouldn’t want you to call me Daddy?” he asked.
“You said that,” she said. “When I was in your office that time, you said I had to call you sir when I was at school and Justin at home.”
“Oh, Soph, that wasn’t what I meant at all. I didn’t want to push you for anything that you weren’t ready to give. I figured you were more comfortable calling me by my name. I just couldn’t have you calling me that at school in front of the other kids. Nothing would make me happier or prouder than to have you call me Daddy,” Justin said. He watched his daughter’s face, eager to see a light go on, a realization that he was telling the truth and that she was loved. He wasn’t disappointed; her face immediately lit up.
“Really?” she asked. “I can call you Daddy? You want me to call you Daddy?”
“Oh yes, honey please call me Daddy, I would love that but what about me? Have I gone up a peg yet? Can I call you Soph?”
Sophia giggled. “Yes, you can call me Soph,” she said. “Can I tell you something else, Daddy?” Her face was colored with pleasure and embarrassment of using the word for the first time.
“You can tell me anything at all.”
“I finished that book yesterday and I don’t want to pretend to read it anymore.”
“Oh really?” he chuckled. “Why did you pretend to read it? You should have just told me.” He would have gladly gone to buy her more books.
“I don't know. I guess I wanted to make you proud but I also didn’t want you to think I was trying to get more stuff.”
“A book is not stuff; you can have as many books as you can read.”
“Can I get the next one?”
“In the series? Sure you can,” he said. “One more thing; stop worrying. You don’t have to earn my love. I love you no matter what just because you are you. The rules are to benefit you, not me. Are we all clear now?”
“Yes, Daddy, we’re all clear.”
* * *
“Why can’t we go to the wedding?” Sophia asked.
“Because Mommy and I want to go by ourselves. It will be a mini wedding on the beach with a mini honey moon right after; just the two of us.” Justin gave Destiny’s had a squeeze and then kissed her. “We would like just a little time on our own.”
“Eww,” Sophia said. “Do you two know what TMI is?”
“Yes,” Justin said with a grin. “Do you know what a ILMABIWASA means?”
“No one knows what that is,” Sophia said. “I think you made it up.”
Lily-Grace giggled. “I do,” she said. “I lost my allowance because I was a smart Alec.”
Sophia gasped at the horror of losing her new found allowance for joking. “No one can take a joke anymore. So where are we going to go while you’re getting married on the beach?”
“You are going to go to Grandma’s house,” Destiny said. “You’ll have a lot of fun over there.”
“We sure will. Grandma lets us stay up late and eat as much ice cream and cookies as we like,” Sophia said happily.
“Really,” Justin said.
“What happens at Grandma’s stays at Grandma’s,” Destiny whispered.
“I guess you’re right,” Justin agreed.
“So, once you’re married, you and Lily-Grace are going to move in here right?” Sophia asked. “And then we’ll be a proper family who lives together in the one house and no one has to go home at the end of the day.”
“Yes, we will,” Justin said. “We are already a family though.”
“That’s what I said,” Sophia said. “Well,” Sophi
a looked at her sister who was watching the proceedings now nervously. “the next question is for you, Mom.”
“Me, what would you like to ask?” Destiny smiled at Sophia but also at Lily-Grace who looked unusually sheepish.
“Yes, you know how I call Daddy, Daddy now?” Sophia asked.
“Yes, but I thought this was a question for me,” she said.
“It is, it’s just well, Lily-Grace wants to know if it’s all right for her to call you Mommy?”
Destiny blinked the tears from her eyes. “You would like to call me Mommy, Lily-Grace?” She couldn’t believe how lucky she was to be accepted so fast by this little girl. “I would be so honored for you to call me Mommy. I already think of you as my little girl anyway. Can I have a hug?”
Lily-Grace ran around to Destiny and climbed in her lap. “You don’t think my mother would mind do you?” she asked.
“Your mother would have been so happy that you found a lovely new mommy,” Justin said. “It’s what she wanted more than anything.”
“So we’re all good here then,” Sophia said. “Can we go play now?”
“Yes, you may,” Justin said.
Destiny smiled as the girls ran off giggling. Who would have thought that they would become such good friends?
The End
Constance Masters
I am a wife, a mother, a grandmother and an author. I guess my love of writing began when I was in school. It was the subject I loved most.
I didn’t write while my oldest children were small because I was busy raising them. Also, there was in Internet then… there weren’t many computers at all and those that -were there were not much more than glorified typewriters. The Internet and high-tech computers make life so much easier and although I still have a couple of children at home, I have much more time to write.
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