You go to the mall to pamper yourself, a few hours pass you sit in the park, bags by your feet as you are eating vanilla ice cream but suddenly you are approached by a 4-year-old child, she asks for your ice cream. "Where are your parents?" you ask where are her parents are, because you feel sorry for her so you buy her ice cream, then a tall and handsome man comes, his eyes are sharp looking at you.
"Lia, let's go home..." He grabs the child from your arms gently and looks at the child and then at you with a slight nod. "Dad, I want to be with mom..." Lia pointed to you and Miles groaned.
"That's not your mother Lia, I told you where your mother is and that's not her. Now please say sorry to the lady for bothering her." His voice was firm and straight.
"Oh, I don't mind... I love kids!" You said with a smile on your face and your eyes on Miles's face. He didn't know what to say since he wasn't even supposed to be in this conversation with the kid and you right now, he's supposed to be at work.
"Oh, thank you for buying her ice cream." He said, sitting down on the bench next to you and letting the kid go so she could go play in the little playground that was in front of them.
"It's no problem, I just felt bad because she looked like she wanted some and I wasn't going to just let her go without any." You shrugged and looked at the little girl then back at Miles, they looked like an exact copy of each other. The same eyes, skin, hair, and everything down to a matching outfit.
The two of you talk for a while until it just goes quiet and you both are watching the child play until you suddenly get the urge to ask a question. "What happened to her mother.. if you don't mind me asking?" You looked at him and gave a reassuring smile.
"It's okay, she just didn't want to care for the kid so she decided to leave, leaving me with the kid but it's fine. I love her a whole lot and would change the world for her." He spoke gently and calmly so the kid didn't hear.
"Oh.." you lifted your hand and rubbed his arm in a comforting manner, feeling bad that he was just a guy and having to take care of a full-blown kid by himself without knowing much about it so you.. offered to help.
"Well I can babysit and help out with anything if you need me to, I know how hard it is." A nod towards him to give him a good feeling, he looked at you and had a smile. "That would help a lot." You guys end up exchanging numbers and he calls you for help or to babysit for work if you aren't busy with anything.
After about a year he called you in the middle of the night, he spoke quietly. "Y/n?" He spoke. "Yes, Miles?" You spoke, wondering when he was whispering and calling so late at night when you told him to have college classes in the morning.
"That Nena won't sleep." He showed you her wide awake, playing with her toys and watching TV on the screen. "What do I do?" He asked as you rubbed your eyes and chuckled, giving him some advice.
"Turn off the TV and put her in the crib, sit by her, and tuck her in. It helps a lot." You nodded at the phone and he muttered okay. "Thank you, sorry to bother you so late." He apologized.
"It's okay, maybe I'll make your notes for this stuff so you don't have to call every time." You joked and laughed, turning over in bed.
"That's a good idea." He smiled, looking at the phone at your video. "But I'll let you go now so you can rest, bye.. love you." He hung up and your eyebrow raised.
"I love you".. he's never said that before to you and something about that felt so good. You smiled and chuckled before putting your phone down on the nightstand and flicking your light off.
After a while of lying down you fall asleep and wake up the next morning with a long voicemail message from Miles that said, "Hello y/n, I just wanted to tell you about how I feel about you. I like you and how you're so good with my baby girl, you've gotten her so far and I couldn't even get her that far by myself. Everything about you just does something to me and makes me so excited, every text or call... every time you come over just makes me so happy. I think I have a crush on you, you make my heart hurt and my stomach gets butterflies every time you are near." There was more but that already had you convinced of how you feel.
You texted back quickly in a short paragraph. "Good morning Miles, I have realized I caught feelings for you as well, your look does something to me and gets me so happy inside. But I'll cut this short and not make a sob story out of it, I like you too and I would feel good about us dating."
You sent it and felt a rush through your body as you stared at the phone and waited for a reply from him.. it only took about a minute until a message from him popped up and said.
"I'd like that a lot, okay.. we are dating now." He sent it with a smile emoji by the side of it.
It has now been three years of you dating Miles and you are engaged now, he proposed last year at the beach when you guys were on vacation with Lia. Lia was now seven years old and was your best friend/stepdaughter. You live with the two in a very nice house.
