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Prompt: you are 19 and have a 1 year old 

You was sat on your lunch break scrolling through your phone when it started to ring and you saw it was your child's nursery calling, you quickly answered the phone "hello" you say down the phone "hi it's the nursery calling and we just wanted to let you know that Lilly has had a slight fall, she is okay but she is startled by it and we was wondering if you could come to collect her" you heard your daughters teacher ask you and you felt the panic of your daughter being hurt start to set in "yes, I will be there as soon as I can" you say before hanging up the phone and rushing down to the office hoping that Marjorie or Autumn would be in the room, however nobody knows you have a 1 year old daughter, quickly entering the office you see Marjorie and Autumn talking and see them both look at you when you barge in to the office "sorry for barging in, but a family emergency has come up and need to leave" you get out quickly and saw Marjorie look at you "okay my love, I hope everything is okay, I will go into the room to cover you" Marjorie says to you whilst she stood up "thank you Marjorie" you say and quickly leave the office and head to your car and quickly drive off to where your daughters nursery is and quickly go and pick up your daughter.

You enter your daughters nursery and quickly go to the room she was in and enter quickly and see her in the arms of her teacher "hi, I'm here for Lilly" you say and see the teacher walk over to you and pass over your daughter to you "she went to stand up and lost her balance, I think she spooked herself but after a while she wouldn't settle" the teacher says to you and you cuddle your daughter closer and tell the teacher by before leaving the room stopping to grab your daughters belongings and leave back to the car and strap her in making sure she was secured and safe in her seat before jumping into the drivers seat and started the car and left to go back to your home.

Arriving home, you get out the car and go and unbuckle your daughter and went inside, you were thankful that your daughter wasn't hurt or anything and was just spooked from falling, you walked into the living room and sat on the couch and brought Lilly closer to your chest and smiled softly when you felt her cuddle closer to you. Leaning back into the couch you rub Lilly's back letting the silence in the house calm you, many people don't know you had a child due to you being 19, you were one of the youngest staff members at the nursery where you worked and even than nobody at your work knew you had a one-year-old, you lived alone and you had no family which nobody else knew either. You stand up and placed your daughter in the playpen that was in the living and started to tidy the house before starting on dinner for you and Lilly. A few hours later you had finished tidying and was about to start making dinner for yourself when you heard the doorbell ring and you looked at the time and saw it was 6pm and Lilly was playing with her toys you fed her and bathed her and she was now back in her playpen, you quickly walked towards the door and opened it slightly to see Marjorie and Autumn stood at your door "hi" you say not fully opening the door "hi Y/N we was just checking to see if you was alright, you haven't answered our texts and we got worried" Marjorie explained why they were at your house "sorry, I have been busy but I'm okay, thank you for checking on me" you say trying to be polite but didn't want them to find out about your daughter so wanted them to leave quickly but you heard a loud screech and you run from the door leaving them stood there and ran into the living room and saw your daughter whimpering and trying to reach a toy that was on the outside of the playpen.

You reached for the toy and passed it to Lilly and turned quickly when you heard 2 sets of gasps coming from behind you and saw Marjorie and Autumn stood there with their mouths open in shock and was looking between you and the child in the playpen, you walk past them and close the front door and walked back into the living room and saw the Marjorie and Autumn have moved and sat down on the couch in the room walking over you picked up your daughter and sat on the chair that was in the corner "Y/N who is this" Autumn asked you and you just sigh knowing that your secret was out "this is Lilly my daughter" you explain and turn the baby on your lap so she was facing the two women in front of you "daughter" came the response from both women "yes, she is one year old and was the reason I had to leave work" you explained and saw Marjorie and Autumn look at you in shock.

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