Before

He never knew life could be this way, but truly if he did, he wouldn't have cared. He cared about nothing, not even himself until her. Before her, he was empty/ Before her he knew nothing of joy or completion, and this is his journey to his life After her.

Timed

Hopeful has done nothing wrong. Since she was born Daddy has loved and cherished her. But when he comes back from war and her mother dies something in Hopeful's Daddy changes and she finds herself staring into a stranger's eyes for every year of her life to follow. When he moves she and her sister to the U.K., Hope b...