I walked into my 17 year old daughter's room while she was at school and set some clothes on her bed for her to put away and grimaced "she needs to clean her room.." I thought.
I looked around and noticed a photo on her nightstand of me when I was 26, Alejandro when he was 27 and Valentina when she was 4. We were at an amusement park together and we all had real smiles on our faces.
I picked up the photo and stared at it for a while and had a flashback to when she was that age.
-*flashback*-
"I'll be the royal dog... and you'll be the... Princess! And papa you be the knight!"
"Wait why do we need a royal dog?"
Little 4 year old Valentina groaned at her dad.
"Becauseee!! Haven't you seen Queen Elizabeth?? She has like 30 CORGISSS!!" she exclaims with her little tooth gap and hands on her face.
"How do you know about Queen Elizabeth?" I giggled
"I'm smart!"
"You certainly are princessa! You got those genes from me." He winked.
"And me!" I defended
"Now listen listen." Valentina pointed "the princesses feet hurt from her heels so- "my feet hurt?"- you must carry her my good sir!"
"Why...?" "BECAUSE HER FEET HURT!" "No they' don't-" "YES THEY DO!" "Alright alright I'll carry her"
Alejandro picked me up while I was in my princess dress and heels and I kissed his cheek
"What a good knight" "shut up..."
"Come on! We need to catch the magical fairy!!"
Valentina zoomed down the stairs and Alejandro carried me down and we entered our backyard.
-an hour after finding the magical fairy-
It was 5:00 and the sun was starting to set, I was in a tight tank top and Nike pros and Alejandro was in shorts and a t shirt, Valentina was in a tiny tank top and tiny sweat pants.
We were all jumping on the trampoline and having fun in our fenced back yard with fairy lights around our house next to a fire pit.
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(Imagine this)
"Wanna play truth or dare?" I smiled and gave a challenging smirk to my daughter. We're a challenging family, it's no surprise.
"Yeah!"
"Alright truth or dare Valentina...?"
"Dare!"
"Alright... what's your biggest fear?"
"I don't have a fear I'm brave and strong!"
"Oh wow... impressive."
"Yeah... nothing scares me."
I smiled as Alejandro crept up behind her and shook her, "BOOO!" "AHHH"
Me and Alejandro laughed and cried. "ITS NOT FUNNY!!" She complained. We only stopped when she started to tear up. She has such an attitude. And honestly she gets it from me...
Valentina looked at her dad, "my turn! Papa, truth or dare?" Since me and Alejandro both have past trauma from picking dare, he chose the safest Option. "Truth!" "Okay... tell me how you feel about mama!"
He blushed lightly and glanced at me "you really wanna know everything I feel about her?" "Yeah!" She exclaimed excitedly. "Alright well, H-Heather is my one true love..She helped bring out my more happy and positive side..I have never loved anyone more in my life and..I love her so much..She makes my heart flutter in ways I have never felt before..And uh..She's one of the most kind and caring persons I have ever met.." he paused and stared at my pink cheeks.
"...Her smile is the most..Beautiful smile I have ever seen..She never fails to bring me happiness..She's so loving towards me and..She's a little troublemaker sometimes and it brings me laughter and joy when she does..." I gasped lightly and stared at him with an adoring expression "Alejandro"-
"Heather is also very...Sassy and funny and she's also my biggest weakness..She can be frustrating at times and tease me a lot and..She's one of the best things that has ever happened to me and she's the one I wanna grow old with.." He stared at me and smiled
We both leaned close to each other and were about to kiss and-
