“Papa, attends! Non, non. Je ne suis plus un bebe. Je suis adulte, et les adultes, ca ne se porte pas”, Six-year-old Gisele said, trying to stifle a giggle as her father was swinging her in the air.

Her father pretended to wipe a tear and said, “Mais tu est mon bebe a moi, Chloe, je dois te porter.”

Then he proceeded to start tickling her.

(Translation. Gisele: Papa, wait! No, no. I’m no longer a baby. I am an adult and adults are not supposed to be carried.

Gisele’s dad: But you’re my baby, Chloe, I’ve got to carry you.)

She started laughing and pushed her cheek forward for him to kiss.

End of Flashback

As he was reaching to touch her, she jerked back her arm. His lips curved into a humorless smile.

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You-“, he started but, Gisele didn’t leave him the opportunity to finish what he started, she walked

Callie asked,

home”, Gisele said trying her best not to scare

again, as if was unheard of

I get another one when

it! Here we can share.”, she said, gesturing towards

had to laugh at Callie’s adorable cuteness. “No, thanks,

Gisele for a while then shrugged and said, “Okay”, then went back

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of Callie’s unending chatter. Distractedly, she helped Callie out of the car and they entered the

there but when he looked at Gisele’s distracted and almost sad face,

doing everything automatically. She changed Callie’s ice cream soiled clothes, put them in the laundry basket, put her in warm clothes then and and stayed with her in the multimedia room. Callie was watching a cartoon about puppets and stuff but Gisele was not listening to a word of what

in the past, thinking about the night her Papa left her and her mother, how her mother sunk into

and concentrate on the future. She threw a glance at Callie and saw that

was going to her

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