Daddy's Home

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BRAD POV:

The whole family is watching a movie like we do every other night. Sophia still wasn't too happy about having to go to that Daddy-Daughter dance at school but I'm sure I could get her more excited. I know that she likes skateboarding and so did I so maybe we could try and bond over that. I know that as soon as we start building up that bond it will be unbreakable. The phone starts ringing and before I could get up and get it, Sophia gets it.

"Hello?" She asks into the phone. The one word that I was not expecting to hear this evening is said. "Daddy!"

Sophia POV:

We are watching a movie all together after dinner. I am still in a bit of a mood since being told I had to go to the daddy-daughter dance but I'm too shy to tell step-douche why. Mom will probably tell him why later which will cause a super awkward conversation tomorrow morning. The phone starts ringing and before anyone can get up and get it, I get up and answer it.

"Hello?" I question whoever is on the other side.

"Phee? Is that you baby?" The person says. I KNOW THAT VOICE ANYWHERE.

"DADDY!" I shout. OH MY GOD. "Hi. Where are you?" I ask curious. He travels all around the world doing super cool stuff.

"I'm in Cameroon right now." He says. I here what sounds like gunshots in the background.

"Is that gunfire? That's so cool." I say.

"Daddy, Daddy! I want to talk to Daddy!" Megan says running up and trying to reach the  the phone so I give it to her. "Hi Daddy. Good." Megan xarries on talking to dad while I go grab a drink from the kitchen. Holy moly. Dad hasn't called in ages, like close to a year. I hope he comes to visit cause I would love to see him again and I think it would be interesting to see him and step douche meet. I walk back into the room as I hear Megan and Dylan shout something.

"Daddys coming! Yay!"

"Oh yeah I guess I could pick you up. Its Whitaker.                   W-H-I-T-A-K-E-R. No, I'm not comfortable giving you my social security number over the phone. Uh, okay, yeah my credit score is 752. I'm very proud of that. I'm sorry? What sort of fighting styles am I proficient in? I don't know if I've ever been asked that before." During this entire conversation with my dad, mom is doing hand signals and mouthing stuff to step-douche. Why does she not want dad here? "Hello, Dusty, hello, hello? Hmm.....I lost him." Step-douche adds.

"Is dad really coming?" I ask really excited.

"Yeah Soph. Your dad should be here tomorrow." Step-douche says. YES!!!!!

"Ok guys, bedtime. You have school tomorrow." Mom says.

We all head to bed while Mom and Step-douche discuss something which is probably dad. I get into my pj's and climb into bed after brushing my teeth. I hear Mom and step-douche say goodnight to Megan and Dylan. About 10 minutes later, mom comes in to say goodnight. She sits on the of my bed and starts to talk to me.

"Honey I don't want you to get too excited when dad comes just incase he doesn't stay around for too long so if he does leave you don't get hurt." She says. Why does she expect dad to leave? He could stay here with us.

"Why aren't you giving him a chance? Your just assuming that he is gonna mess up and be a bad dad. He will be different this time." I say getting really annoyed that my momwas just dismissing my dad so much.

"I'm not saying that Phee. I just want you too understand that dad left last time so he may do the same this time." Mom says trying to make me see it from her perspective but all it did was make me more mad. I simply lay down facing away from my mom waiting for her to leave which she did about 2 minutes later. Why isn't mom giving dad a chance to be better? I hope dad proves mom wrong.

Hope you enjoyed this all you beautiful people.