Daddy's diary

Prologue

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you Leah, happy birthday to you! Yay!"

Finally 20! Oncle Luke, Michael and Ashton sang to me for my birthday. They have amazing voices, I don't know why they never started a career...

Anyway! Ashley is there too, my best friend. After singing, they prepared the cake and we ate it. It was an enormous cake with 'Happy birthday Leah!' on it. It was delicious! After that, Ashley gave me a gift. It was a leopard purse, really beautiful. I adore it! I thanked her, put it on my shoulder and walked around the living room like if I was a model. I made seductive faces, showed the purse by all the possible ways, and bursted out laughing like everyone.

I sat back down at my seat and Michael gave me his gift. It was a cute necklace. It was infinity shaped and my name was written on one side and on the other there was "faith". I immediatly attached it around my neck and took a look in the mirror before turning around to show them how it looked like.

"Wow! I'm very proud of my gift omg!" Michael said with humour and thruth in is voice.

"Stunning!" Said Ashley.

"Wow!" Asthon smiled.

"Perfect like always baby." Luke smiled.
I smiled, then hugged Michael and thanked him for the beautiful gift.

Then, oncle Ash' left the room, and came back seconds later with a huge package in his arms.

"This is for me?" I aske with a surprise expression on my face.

"Yeah honey, this is for you!" He smile to me, excitment is clear in his voice.

"Omg" I whisper to myself looking at the enormous gift.

"C'mon! Go ahead and open it.Please hurry I can't wait to see your reaction anymore!" Ashton almost screams.

"Okay-okay!" I answer as I walk to the box. I first try to lift it but it doesn't even budge an inch from the floor. I abandon the idea of transporting it to the middle of the room and just take a seat right next to it. I start to undo the cute flowered paper covering the gift. I have all eyes on me. As I tear the paper I can finally what's in the box.

Holy mother of jesus. Is he f*cking kidding me?

"A guitar? Holy shit!" I nearly scream. I look up at Ash and see him smiling from ear to ear.

"I love you so much! Thank you, oh my god!" I tell him in his ear after jumping into his arms.

"So how do you find my gift?" He asks.
"How do I find it?" I repeat his exact words more to myself than to him.

"Is this really a question?" I say with a bit of sarcasm. He nods.

"I find it amazing oh my god! Thank you so much!" I squeal. "Will you learn it to me?" I ask him.

"Hmmm.." He says while looking at Luke behind me. Than his glaze moves to Michael. "I don't know how baby, but Michael could show you." He smiles to me. I take a look at Michael's face to see him nodding and smiling at me also.

"Cool!" I say with excitment. Looking at Michael before turning again to Ash.
"So. You still haven't received mine." Luke tells me.

He takes something behind his back and hands it to me. It is a quite big box, not comparable to the box Ash gave me though. I shake it a bit to maybe have a hint of what is in the box. I seriously have no clue. When he asked me what I wanted for my birthday gift few weeks ago, I didn't know what to say. So I just answered that I wanted him to be there and everything would be great. But he did not agree and said 'a real gift'. Something he could buy me. But honestly just his presence means so much to me.

Anyway, I unwrap the decorative paper from the box and put it on the floor next to me. I remove the top of the box from it. And than I finally discover the gift.

"What's that?" I asked confusedly looking at Luke.

"It's a diary."

"Oh! Thanks... But why are you giving this to me?"

"'Cause it's the diary of your father, Calum." And with these words my jaw drop.