His brother

73. Chapter

Dallas, Texas
July

"And sister, shall we go for ice cream?" she asked me when I put strawberry jam in her mouth, which she loves so much.

"Um, I don't know if you listened today." I grabbed my chin and thought.

"But I was good today, sister." I smiled at her and gave her a little kiss on her little finger with my index finger.

"Yes, you were really good today," I told her and tucked her hair behind her ear, "So today will be ice cream." she squealed and started clapping her little hands. I laughed and wiped her dirty jam mouth.

"I want three scoops of vanilla ice cream!" she pointed her index finger at me and I smiled weakly.

"Okay, you vanilla," I picked her up, "I'm going to change your clothes first, because you're all dirty." together we went to her kingdom and I sat her on her bed. I took a white dress from the closet and walked over to her.

"Hands up," I ordered her and she did so, "How about we go to the pool for ice cream?" I rolled my eyes at her and started tickling her. Rose laughed and her whole body began to flutter.

"Sister, enough! Sister!" she kept laughing, but then I stopped. I took off her dirty clothes and changed into a beautiful white dress, detailed with mine. I combed her brown hair and made two braids. I put on her glasses and we walked out of her room together .

Calvin! Calvin, where are you?" I yelled as I walked down to the garage with my little one in my arms.

"Yes, Miss Shannon?" he came out of the garage and pulled up next to us.

"We'll walk, the ice cream is only three blocks away," I told him and he nodded.

"And sister, are you going away again?" she asked me as we walked along the road. I smiled sadly at her because her expression made my heart flutter. I caressed her face and held her close.

"Yes, honey. I don't live with daddy anymore." she pulled away and made sad eyes.

"And why? You don't like me anymore?" she asked and I laughed nervously.

I wanted to cry.

"Honey, what was on your mind? Why do you think that?" I raised my eyebrows, we turned the corner and I saw an ice cream cafe from afar.

"I don't want you to leave again!" she threw herself around my neck and tears welled up in my eyes. She was so adorable. In these few days that I spent whole days with her, she grew very close to my heart. I would never have believed , that I would have such a close relationship with her in such a short time. She even slept in my room the next day, that never happened before.

"I'll come again," I told her, but I couldn't promise her that, because I didn't want to go back to Dallas. Just coming here was out of my good heart. I wanted to see them one last time, even though I she herself did not know why.

Something drew me here, and now I may have figured out the reason.

And that reason was my little sister Rose.

We went inside: "Three scoops of vanilla ice cream!" she ordered the waitress and I smiled sweetly at her.

With the purchased and already half-eaten ice cream, we sat down on the nearest bench and watched the small pond in which the little fish were swimming.

"Do you like it?" I raised an amused eyebrow. As if she didn't have a mouth full of ice cream.

"Soooo good, sooooo good," I laughed.

"Come here, shall we take a selfie for mommy?" I asked her and she quickly nodded. I put her on my knees and turned on the camera. "Big smile, Rose." she gave a big smile, which looked really funny, since she had few teeth and was also dirty. I took a few photos of us and sent the photo to Rebecca. Then I stopped and hesitantly finally sent the photo to him as well."Do you want to go for a walk or shall we go home and go straight to the pool?" I asked her.

"Pool! Pool!" she squealed, and when she finished her ice cream, I wiped her dirty mouth.

"Come on." I put her on the ground and grabbed her hand. We walked home together and then changed into swimsuits. We fooled around in the pool for about an hour and then I put little Rose to sleep because I could see how tired she was. Abby she cooked me some delicacy, which I ate and sat down in front of the TV, where I watched a series.