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CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER TEN
DADDY ISSUES
"daddy stuck around,
but he wasn't present"
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     "I love my father, I really do, but I hope I'll never marry a man like him." Crying in her best friend arms was a young Dylan. Sometimes life just felt like a cruel joke, more often then not. Dylan was furious and crushed all at the same time. She didn't even know why she was sad or disappointed anymore. This happened every other day. Her dad had neglected her and said something soul crushing, pushing her further and further away. Being a father was just words to him, but being his daughter was something she had to lived with. And it wasn't fair.

     After everything Marcus Kane put his daughter through, she still loved him. Not even just deep down. To anyone that could see clear could tell the girl loved her father, even if she had a funny way of showing it herself. But Dylan was on her last straw. She didn't know how many more rejections she could take from him before it all be some too much for her. God, how stupid. She was suppose to cry to him about her lovers,but instead she was crying about him to her lovers. Ironic, right?

     Marcus Kane was his daughter's first heartbreak, and she didn't deserve that. Fourteen years of lowered expectations had led to nothing short of disappointment and heartbreak. Fourteen years, and he still didn't know her. He knew her, but he didn't know her. Her favorite color, foods she just couldn't stand, or what movie she would watch on repeat when life was hard. Maybe that was the saddest part of it all. It made her stronger, for the better or for the worse, but Dylan Kane didn't deserve that.

     Dylan deserved a father that was present, who wanted to see and praise the drawings she made for him, and who wanted to be there and love her. But he just couldn't. Everything else was much more important. Like his estranged wife that was now dead, who he never got the chance to apologize to. Like the fact that Dylan was a constant reminder of what a failure he had been in that department.

     Dylan was tired. She was tired of seeking the love she should've had growing up from every other person, whether that was John Murphy who was just as broken, Bellamy Blake who was going to end up shutting her out just like her father had or just some guy she was trying to make it work with. God, Dylan remembered when she was just a little kid with pigtails and a bright smile on her face. She was daddies little girl, but as time passed they grew apart from each other. And over the course of just a few years, she wasn't his little girl anymore.

     Everything made her mad, sad. Enraged, depressed. No matter how hard the Kane girl tried suppressing her feelings, the little girl inside of her cried out. Marcus meant well, he always did. Early on the man had figured the best thing for his daughter was if he just kept his distance, she was better off. But even though he always meant well, he was going to have to live with the fact that he had hurt his daughter, maybe too deep for her ever to forgive.