If I only could

Chapter 24

5 Years Later...

"Ellaine, Dad is going to leave now. Be a good girl to your aunt as always, okay?" Danny said and hug her tight as he won't be able to see her for a few weeks because of his tight schedules. He left a kiss on her forehead before he shed a tear.

He stood straight staring at his reflection in the mirror before leaving the house.

Ellaine Danielle is growing up well, She's 6 years old already and a very humble child. He's proud of how she grew up and he sometimes hope that she'll stop growing too fast and be his little girl forever.

Right now he's about to flew to L.A for his tour with the lads, He left Ellaine to his sister, Andi together with his nieces like what he usually do whenever he go overseas for his work.

He wants her to be with him but it's too impossible to bring her wherever he goes, he thinks that it won't help for tge child or it might confuse her if where does she really live. So as much as possible he wants her to stay home in their hometown with his sister and play with his nieces for good, he thought that it would be hard for his daughter to adjust everytime. He sometimes bring her with him and goes back to dublin after a few days or week so it will be easy for the kid amd it won't needed for her to adjust in the environment.

He's so sad to leave her all the time, but he has to for her future, he has to sacrifice being away from his daughter to provide everything she needs.

He's a single Dad, the reason why he's doing this all the time and being a parent he doesn't want anything but to give everything she wants. He'll work hard as much as his body can.

"What's up!" That's Glen and that's when he only realized he reached his destination. He look at the driver seat and his driver is no where to be seen.  He open the car door to get himself out as he saw Mark and Glen also their manager out there waiting for him.

"What's up!" He greet them and shook hands with them.

"All right. How's Ellaine? Did she cry?" That's Mark helping him to get his luggage at the back of the car.

"No, She didn't. She's all grown up now, She understand at somehow why I have to go and she get used to it." He said at somehow it made him sad knowing that she's growing fast without him by her side.

"Well, that's life being a father and being a celebrity at the same time. She'll fully understand you when she's all grown up don't worry about it. Mark and I been there, it'll be fine believe me." That's Glen, he's glad to see them again after a few weeks off.

"I hope so. It's just sad whenever I think about the time that took from us." He said and they all get inside of the van that's provided by their agency. It will take them an hour to arrive at the airport.

"How's your kids by the way?" He said as he look at Mark.

"Well, all good, they're doing things on their own and they never fail to make me and their mother proud." He respond he then look at Glen.

"He's doing good, making his own music now." Glen said referring to his son who decided to enter the music industry. He nod

"That's good. Cameron and Luke can make songs together, maybe The Script version 2." He said and they all laugh.

"Maybe let's all wait for Ellaine for a few more years." Mark and they laugh again.

"It will be a bit different, O'Donoghue is a girl this time." Glen said, they all laugh with that thoughts.

"Pretty sure Ellaine will be a good singer if you'll let her sing, She's so good whenever she sings." Mark said praising his daughter. He nod as he agree on what he said.

"But I have to let her be whatever she wants to be." He said.. It's true that Ellaine is a good singer at her young age, She started to sing when she was four, and he bet she truly loves music as both he and his Ex wife loves music too.

"But no offense, she sounds like her mother when she sing." Glen said.

"Well, I can't deny that, she sounds like her mother." He said agreeing to him.

"Do you feel somehow sad, seeing your daughter growing up without her mother?" Mark suddenly open the topic as they started talking about the mother of his child.

"Well, I can't deny that I feel sorry for my daughter, but there is nothing I could do, I don't know where she is now. It's been 5 years though." He said and Glen look at him.

"I'm sorry, I didn't tell you." Glen said and he just shook his head.

"No, it's alright mate. I understand, I may not know the reason but I'm sure you did it for her own good." He said and Glen nod.

"Don't you have contact with her now?" Mark asking Glen all of a sudden. Glen shook his head.

"We couldn't contact her after a few months when she left." Glen said. "We knew that she flew to Australia to stay there but we found out that she never flew there." He continued and he's just there sitting and listening to what he's saying. It's his first time hearing about her wife again after 5 long years. He never ask Glen again after he found out that she left and quit her job, He chose the friendship between him and Glen. He never want anything else to change just because of his wife. Oh ex-wife.

As of now he is surprised hearing all this but he doesn't want to ask anything regarding to this matter, it's been 5 years since they divorced, and even if he wants her to be with their daughter she never find ways to spend even a little of her time to their kid.

He's fine now without her and Ellaine she grew up without her so maybe she won't find her at all if she will he mighttell her, but he's wishing that she'll show up before their daughter ask him about her mother.

He tells her about who her mother is but he never mention the reason of their parting ways he doesn't want to tell a story that a mother ran away from her daughter after cheating on her father. He doesn't want to tell his kid any bad things about her mother. After all that woman is his kid's mother.