cinema [h.s.]

chapter twenty eight.

December 27, 2020.

"Are we there yet?" Ivy asks me for the ten millionth time.

Me, Ivy and Harry are currently on our way to London to spend a few days with Anne and Gemma since they couldn't come to LA for Christmas.

We boarded Harry's jet roughly eight hours ago and ever since we lifted off the ground Ivy has asked me and Harry 'Are we there yet' every five minutes.

"No baby." I chuckle holding up two fingers, "We've still got two hours."

"Ugh!" Ivy huffs, crossing her arms over her chest and throwing her head back against the head rest. "Daddy, I'm bored."

Harry snaps his head over to me with a giant smile on his face and my heart swells. Ever since Christmas Eve, Harry has officially been labeled as daddy.

Ivy first came to me about calling Harry daddy back in October right before Halloween. I felt like it was far too early in our relationship for that to be happening so I explained to Ivy why she couldn't to the best of my abilities.

It was right after that incident that I started distancing myself from Harry after Ivy almost
let the word daddy slip from her mouth.

Then, she came to me again a few weeks later, right before my mom came into town.

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"Mommy, can I talks to you?" Ivy asks from the floor beneath me, lazily playing with her barbie dolls.

"Of course baby." I pause the show currently playing on the tv and pat the seat on the sofa next to me, "Come sit."

Ivy drops the dolls currently residing in her hands and rushes over, plopping down beside me on the sofa and playing with the pom pom's hanging off the bottom of her dress.

"I want bestest 'arry to be my daddy." Ivy says softly, looking down at her hands and refusing to make eye contact with me.

This is the second time in a the span of a few weeks that Ivy has come up to me asking if she could call Harry daddy.

The first time she brought it up to me, I told her no solely because I wasn't ready for Harry and I to hit that point in our relationship.

Now that it's been a few weeks, I've realized that nothing about Harry and I's relationship is quote on quote "normal."

We're moving pretty fast for a couple that's only been dating since August and it breaks my heart to turn Ivy down when she's prominent about Harry being her father.