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~ 3 years later ~

"Danielle, stop running around I already told you that you're going to get hurt!" I told her, but she just kept giggling and running in circles around the couch

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"Danielle, stop running around I already told you that you're going to get hurt!" I told her, but she just kept giggling and running in circles around the couch. It wasn't long before she stubbed her toe and started sobbing on the ground. Toddlers can be so stubborn.

I walked over to her to check if she was okay.

"eomma mal-eul deudji anh-eumyeon museun il-i il-eonaneunji boseyo : look what happens when you don't listen to your mom" I heard a voice say.

It was Jay, he picked Danielle up into his arms and cradled her until she quieted down. I looked at him and mouth a quick 'thank you.'

Jay has been a real help with Danielle. When I first moved to Australia I was alone. I had met him since I had opened a new cafe in the area I was staying in. He worked for me and we became close friends after a while. He's been with me throughout my entire journey of having and raising her. He held my hand in the delivery room and supported me throughout the way.

The doctors at the hospital assumed he was the father and kept bothering him to sign the birth certificate. It was very funny to watch. But not so much when they came to ask me many questions about the other parent as well.

Speaking of, in the 3 years I've been waiting for her return she hasn't shown up. It's either 1 of 4 things.

1. She forgot about me and is out living her life amazingly. Fucking every girl she runs into and spending all of her money with her father's new company as well.

2. She's somehow still fighting Chenle. I doubted it was that one because 3 years is too much.

3. She somehow can't find me. Though with the amount of resources she has that would be mind-boggling.

4. She died. One im praying isn't true.

The most probable ones were 1 or 4 and neither were the ones I preferred. Since Jay has been with me the whole time Danielle will probably start to think of him as her father. That's something I didn't want, no matter how good of a person he was.

If she was still alive out there I won't take that away from her unless she doesn't want to have anything to do with us. If I found out she ever died or didn't care for us, I wouldn't doubt letting Jay be a parental figure for her.

Suddenly I felt my hair being tugged. Danielle was pulling my hair with her miniature hand.

"You're so distracted" laughed Jay, "what were you thinking about?" He asked. He doesn't know anything about her, and I don't plan on telling him. "Nothing, just a little tired today," I responded vaguely.

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