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The Man Behind Those Homemade Cookies

I slammed the door as hard as I could, it's better if I'll break it. I threw my bag away and put the box at my bed. In anything I did, I was angry.

How can my dad have someone who was older than me? Or maybe, how could he have someone like me?

Maybe dad was really with someone before he had me and mom. If he was with someone, why didn't he just be with her and made mom a single-parent? Or maybe, he doesn't like Jhel's attitude.

"Sweetheart, maybe it is the time that I'll tell someone my secret." Dad said through the door. I was currently laying down in my bed.

"I know you'll understand me when I open up with you. We were always on each other's side and back, remenber?" He begged me to open my door. Honestly, I am not a fan of locking the bedroom doors. It just scares me.

He sat down by my feet and grabbed the last piece of the cookie. He waited patiently as I typed some of my homework.

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(16 years ago)

I really really love Janna and our daughter, Jhelian. But something was bothering my mind. Lorelei.

It was 3 years ago since I married the only sigle girl at our batch. She was beautiful, though, but no one liked her since they said she was always nagging. But to me, she was fine and I hoped I'll be happy spending the rest of my life with her.

A year after, she gave birth to our little angel, Jhel. Her hair was bright like an angel, as well as her eyes. I was happy living with Janna, she wanted everything to be perfect - for me, us.

A day after Jhel's 1st birthday, I went home to California to visit my new nephew. But as I arrived home, I saw Lori. She was my one and only dream girl, but there was a rumor that she died on a crash. It was now too late to say I Love Her. I guess she was now married or living with someone. I kept telling myself that I am happy with my life now. She looked helpless, and the scars weren't healed yet. There were too many evidence of the car crash.

"David!" She smiled, looking at me with two emotions - happy and surprised to see me. "It's great to see our nephew."

She said with a big shot on my heart. 'Our' nephew. I just hope there was really an 'our' there.

"My cousin and your sister got married, anyway. That's why it was 'our' nephew." She said shyly. U guess I might've said something about my thoughts.

After our visit, there was an accident that happened between us at the hotel room. I knew I made a mistake and I don't know what to think.

After a couple of months, she said she was pregnant and gave birth to our daughter, Jade. She named her after the stone I gave her way back i high school, Jade.

I was shocked when I heard someone coughed behind me, Janna. Lori left that instant without a word. She said nothing, too. She kicked me out of the house and I stayed with Lori.

I cannot marry her becuase I married Janna. That's why her parents didn't accept me. So, we lived together instead on our own. She was happy at first, but when Janna kept coming back and begged on her knees for me to come back for her, Lori just became so careless and she changed. Since then, we had an agreement that when Jade already reached college, we partedways and pretend that we just grew apart.

"I just hope we'll just be fine like the old times, dear. But we will never be since he got an obsessed wife waiting for him to come home and I won't be happy as I was before. I can never change back again, I am worried." I heard her talked over the phone to someone, and she won't tell me who was it.

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I listened carefully as dad told me. There were some parts that it was really hurtful. But what can I do? I am their consequence.

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SO WHAT DO YOU THINK?! DOES IT CHANGE JADE?