The Unexpected

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Jens pov

"Mama!" Veronica yells happily. "Hey!" I smile and squat down then gave her the tightest hug. "I have a talent show coming up at school" she says. "A talent show?! How fun! What are you gonna do for the talent show?"

"I want to dance like we do at parties" she says. I look at my mom and we both laugh.

"You should dance then. We can make up a dance and then you can perform it in class"

"She has a little class flyer for it. It's just the class not the entire school so it'll be a small crowd which should make her comfortable." My mother says. "Cool! I'll help her work on it this week" I said.

"Okay and update me on everything!"

"Of course! Also, don't forget we're going on the cruise. Me, her and Vanessa during the spring break."

"Right, right. Did you book it already?" She asks. "Yup! All booked and ready."

"Take lots of pictures"

"You know I will haha. I'll see you tomorrow. Love you" I said and gave her a hug. "Love you too."

"Bye bye grandmaaaa I love you" Veronica says. "Bye sweetie. I love you too"

We leave after and go straight home.

"I'm making dinner in an hour babe. Can you finish your homework in the meantime?" I ask her, stopping her from playing around the house. "I have one only"

"Okay then go do that"

"What about my talent show?"

"We can work on that after you're done" I said. "Okaaay"

"If you need help I'll be right here" I said and sat on the couch, turned the tv on and relaxed for a little while she was also next to the couch working on her homework on the table by the couch.

She quietly works on her homework. She's pretty smart so I know she doesn't need my help right now. It's been reviews lately on what they've already covered so she'll be fine.

25 minutes later, she finishes and closed her folder. Then she stuffs it in her backpack and then jumps on my couch and cuddled with me.

"You're done baby?" I ask her. "Yeah" She says. I smile and hug her, softly stroking her back. "Do have you had any ideas of what kind of dance you wanna do?"

"I said like at the parties" she pouts. "Okay okay. How about that dance we do when grandmas favorite song comes on?" I ask her. "Yeah!" She says loudly. I widen my eyes and show her my smile. She smiles back, squinting her eyes cutely.

"Show me how much you remember" I said and let her go. She gets off and stands then starts dancing and humming along, showing me her moves. She knows the exact moves that my mom does.

I get my phone, played the song and started to record her cute dancing. She gets even more happy and dances even more.

"Yesss Vee! Get it!" I said and continued hyping her up.

I stopped recording and stood up. "Okay so we could add a few moves to make it seem more presentable" I said and she looks up at me and watched me dance as the music kept playing.

After only 40 minutes of figuring out a whole dance, we finished.
"Now we'll have to practice that everyday till the talent show." I said. "Okay" she says happily.

"I'm making spaghetti for dinner"

"With extra Parmesan cheese?" She asks. "Not too much cheese because it's not good to always have extra cheese" I giggle. "Aw man. Okay"

She always says 'aw man' and I find it funny. She's only 6.
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One thing I barely talk about is Veronica's dad. How I do know him. The fact that we've dated for just a week is the reason why I don't talk about it. I found him cute when I first met him. I met him through the whole adoption process. He was required to give some type of information before I was allowed to fully have Veronica. Then we just started talking more till he asked me on a date. So we dated for a week. And I found him soooo attractive. The muscles he has were so sexy. His personality was so sweet and he found me extremely attractive too. We just had a short phase where we really wanted each other after meeting right away. So we had sex that same week. It was okay..but I've had better...but that's the reason why I stayed a lesbian. He didn't even use protection which makes sense why he gave Veronica up but I guess his pull out game got better. And of course I wasn't on birth control because I don't need it. I was just not in the right state of mind at the time. I know I shouldn't have had sex with him after just adopting Veronica but I thought we could make this work and we end up being a whole family again since he's the real dad of Veronica. Like some fairytale. But I was young. I've learned from my mistakes.

But now we're just friends. He knows how much I love Veronica and he's not into her life which sucks but it's fine because I won't have to give her up to him every other week taking turns in parenting. I like her in my family fully. I talk to him sometimes but don't really hang out with him or anything. I don't know his story of how and why he actually gave up Veronica and he doesn't know where the mom is so he was pretty much no help at all. Veronica knows him but I haven't told her that he's her dad. But she likes him whenever she'd see him. Nothing big though. It seems messy but it's not.
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Leahs POV

People usually unfollow their ex everywhere on social media. But I want to be friends with Jennifer still and she's just surprisingly still following me. We barely followed each other recently when we were together. She hasn't posted ever since we were together. She barely even posts. She has four posts only and the other three are of her and her cousins, a selfie and a view from a vacation. I don't know if she's getting over me or not but it's been almost 3 weeks. Im obviously not over her..I think about her time to time. We were having a good spark in the beginning of our relationship but I did what was best. I wouldn't be the right person she should be with if she has a kid. That's just a no. I know I hurt her breaking up with her but it would've been worst if I stayed. It is what it is.

Anyways, I opened up her story and where is she? On a cruise. I know it's her first time on a boat. I remember the 'never have I ever' game with her and she said she's never been on a boat. I said I'd take her but i guess I'm not anymore.

There was pictures of her with her friend Vanessa. And then a picture of her daughter kissing her cheek but I can't even see how she looks because her hair is covering her face. I've never met or seen her daughter. She barely has posts on her instagram, just pictures of her or views, so I'm hoping she posts her on her story. I'm curious to see how she even looks.

I'm also on vacation so I'm being productive. Cleaning up my place, restocking on groceries, getting my nails and brows done, and running some errands. Then the rest of the week I plan just to relax and enjoy the vacation. I might hang out with some of my friends but I haven't seen them since I was with Jennifer. I've talked to them through text but not in person so I'm not sure if I'm ready to deal with them how I'm feeling now that I'm single again. But whatever. I'll have to deal with it eventually.

After a productive day, I went back on my phone and went on Instagram. She probably wonders why I view every story.

I tapped, then tapped again, but had quite a shock the second I saw a picture of her daughter. Im pretty sure that's her daughter because she said "mini me" in her caption.

Crazy thing is..I know her daughter....from my job.

How? I'm her teacher.