LOVE IMPERFECTION

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Lily's POV.

How can I not want to work hard, how can I not want to be the best daughter in the world for the best father in the world. He has done everything for me.

There were times when he would feed me the last bit of food we have in the food and he would tell me that he has eaten outside. That trick only lasted for when I was young to not understand that's he's sacrificing for me.

I use to keep the last food we have in the house for him while he's out hustling for me and I would go to bed early just so that I don't feel hungry. But he never eats that food because he knows, he always knows that I didn't eat too

I glanced at my phone and this strong urge formed to talk to my dad. I need him more than ever before now.

"Hey" he answered on the first ring.

I became silent not knowing what to say or where to even start. My heart aches when I think about relating that woman with the word mother.

"Lily, what's wrong. I know you are there" he says sounding worried.

"That woman. That woman called herself my mother" I said weakly mentally and physically.

"What?" He sounded shocked.

"Dad, I saw her" I frowned deeply by my words. "She said she's my mother".

He became silent too. I know what he's thinking, it must be hard to take in and swallow for both of us.

"Lily what are you talking about?" He asked.

I started sobbing and told him everything.

"No, no, lily don't cry. Don't cry she doesn't deserve it" He said painfully, I could feel his pain too.

"I don't have a mother dad, I never had and I never will". I cried

He sighed heavily and said "Do not stay there, come back home lily. Come to your dad" he said and I felt like jumping into my phone and hugging him.

He's my dad, my dad...the only person I have. The only one I can cry to and understands each other's pain. The only person I shared and I can share every secret with.

I use to hear people saying that a mother is the one person you can share anything and everything with. But to me it's not true, my dad comforted me during my worst times even during my first period. He advised me, he taught me everything I need to know about myself and taking care of my hygiene.

I dragged my suitcase down the side of the road slowly.

"Lily, wait" I stopped in my tracks when I heard bc shouted behind me.

His steps became louder as he approached me but I kept my back on him

" Lily where are you going?" He asked as he came to stand in front of me. He looked tired and worried.

"Bc Please" I say

"What is wrong?"

"Everything is wrong" I glared at him. Isn't it obvious that everything is wrong.

"Lily I know you are stressed but do not take such hasty actions".

"Hasty actions" I scoffed

"You think am taking hasty actions, a woman just showed up claiming to be my mother and you want me to be calm about it"?

"So, she said she's your mother lily and we haven't even figured out the truth yet". He waved his hands in the air as if in an annoyed manner.

"I really don't blame you one bit" I laughed, I actually managed to laugh in disbelieve or did it just came to me at the time.

He ran his hand through his hair and shook his head.

"So to you it's no big deal if any woman just shows up and claim to be my mother, do you even know what it feels like for your own mother to abandon you as a baby"? The words just ran out of my mouth before I could even think, it hurts everytime I had to remember what I went through.

"No, I don't lily" he replied softly.

I scoffed "that's what I thought because yours are f* dead"

I blurted that out, I didn't mean to. My lips seal completely when those words slipped. I raised my eyes slowly to meet his soft but frustrated gaze.

I shouldn't have said that although it's true I shouldn't have yelled it out like I did.

"Bc. I am...

Before I could finish my sentence he quickly slid his hand on my waist connecting our lips.

I gasp and my eyes widen. He pulled on my lower lip and sucked on it. I was caught completely off guard that I couldn't even kiss him back, he pulled back.

I blinked a few times and touched my swollen lips. He frowned, he doesn't look guilty at all.

He pulled me by the waist a little and I gasped again, people might be watching and I totally wasn't expecting this.

He placed my head on his chest caressing it gently, he rested his head on mine and whispered.

"You are right, they are dead but you are not. And if you are leaving then I am going with you". Then he kissed my hair