Melon shouldn’t have been thrust into this harsh reality at such a tender age. Ariana had always wished for him to enjoy a carefree childhood.

Tears streamed down her cheeks as Ariana knelt, enfolding Melon in her arms.

After contemplating, she said, “Daddy loved us very much. He must be watching you growing up and missing us terribly.”

Ariana’s voice broke several times as she continued, “But Daddy turned into a star in the sky to watch over us. He’ll always be there, guarding you and me.”

Understanding dawned on Melon, and he couldn’t help but cry in Ariana’s embrace. His quiet sobs soon escalated into heartrending wails. “I’m truly a fatherless child! I don’t have a dad!”

bore down on her. Her

words were all

he went up. The scene that greeted him, Ariana and Melon in tears, caught him off guard. With a surge of concern, he rushed to them.

to him, his face stained with tears. Mitchel embraced the child, patting his back gently,

to pretend to be Melon’s dad, and he found

she continued to

guilt. It dawned on her:

from the start would have spared Melon the

distress, gently guided her head

acted out of love, trying to give Melon a

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