Dricki Love & Lust Chronicles

I Told You I Was Comin' Back pt. 2

At that Drake sat back and just watched her pick up her brush, push back her long wild curls and tie them up in a ponytail. She then grabbed her book and sat on a pillow under the window.

"Daddy did you want anything else?" she asked softly and Drake just watched her open her book. In Drake's eyes, he thought he was looking a young Nicki, curled up in their old apartment, reading a book, waiting for him to come home like she always used too.

"I wanted to ask you something." Drake said and big hazel eyes peered up him. The shone and glittered, with specks of green and gold. Looking right at her, Drake could see the freckles that had formed on his daughters face, the bags under her eyes that didn't belong, and the sweetness of her lips that matched his.

"What?" she wondered and rubbed her little nose, sniffling a bit. Drake grabbed a sweater that had been placed on a chair and handed it to her. She took it and pulled on her slim figure noticing that Andrea was a rather small girl for her age.

"Do yo-" he began but decided against it. "You know what, never mind."

"Oh, okay." she said but still wondered what it was. Andrea settled it in her mind, telling herself that if it was something worth asking that he'd ask, but since he didn't it was nothing he needed to know so she just looked back down at the book.

"But will you read to me?" Drake asked and saw a small smile spread across the child's face. She loved to read to Junior and Nicki, she loved to tell stories, and write them. Andrea secretly hoped to be a writer some day, have her own publishing company, and help little girls just like her.

She was so young but had so many dreams for her mother and brother. In her mind she wanted to become a rich and successful author by sixteen, send her brother to best schools possible and buy her mother a castle fit for the queen she was. A part of her even wanted to help her father out of jail at one point but just as soon as that want appeared it disappeared when her mother began dating again. Her dates would come and Nicki would always catch Andrea practically interrogating them before Shanell would come to watch them for the night.

Andrea spoke softly. "Yes," she answered and asked Drake to come sit next to her. Drake did so cautiously, and placed the photo on the bedside table. Andrea could smell him and remember that being the scent that meant daddy was near and everything was going to be okay.

She questioned if that assumption still held any truth or if it held any truth at all but shrugged it off and tried to enjoy the moment, pretending that she was a part of a normal family. A family she vied for that had a mother, father, a sister, and a brother. That was all Andrea truly wanted but she wouldn't allow for Drake to come back in their life it only meant heartache for her mother and brother.

She began reading and got comfortable enough to lay her head on Drake's arm, breezing through the story with little to no problems. Nicki passed by the open door and looked in at father and daughter. She was so used to seeing Andre by herself that it was almost a shock that not only had she let Drake into her room that she was interacting with him and that this interaction wasn't an angry or violent one.

When the story ended Drake kissed Andrea on the top of her head and placed her on her bed since she was beginning to fall asleep. The room was drafty so he placed a blanket over her and placed the book on the shelf. He peered around the pretty pink room, it was small and simple but with what they had Nicki did the best she could, even with Andrea insisting that cheap white paint and regular curtains were enough for her. Drake looked at the many drawings and paintings that hung on the wall, and the small toys that aligned the shelves. With the way the room was arranged and so meticulously clean it would seem as if no child had stepped inside for years.