“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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didn’t leave him the opportunity to

entered the car, Callie asked,

hunny. Let’s just go home”, Gisele said trying her best

you get another ice cream?”, Callie asked again, as if was unheard of for Gisele

another one when I

it! Here we can share.”, she said, gesturing towards her melting ice cream

Callie’s adorable

a while then shrugged and said, “Okay”, then went back to her

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they reached home, Gisele was so out of it that she barely heard any of Callie’s unending chatter. Distractedly,

looked at Gisele’s distracted and almost sad face, the smile on his face was wiped

robot, 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 she was

the night her Papa left her and her mother, how

good to think of the past, she needed to be positive and concentrate on the future.

going to her room, Slate stopped

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