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Alyssa lies
Chapter one
Johnny was tired when he got home that he instantly fell asleep on the sofa only two hours later to be woken up by his daughter. Aurora was now five years old and had brown hair up to her shoulder. She still had the same baby face and the baby hazel eyes but the bruises faded and she now was a happy kid.
She had woken him up by dropping her backpack on the floor by the couch and stomping up and down knowing that would get him up. Glaring at his daughter, he noticed how she only smiled back at him sweetly. She was really good at persuasion and the number one reason that she wasn't always grounded.
Plus Ashley usually took her to do things with her and made up the absense of her mother. Lately Ashley thought it would be okay to take Aurora to church and although he approved of it, it didn't stop Aurora from reading out of the bible and even taking with her to school. Ashley was very optimisitic that Aurora would listen if she took the ten commandments seriously and even put one above the television in the living room.
Without Ashley, Johnny didn't know what he'd do and was glad that fate had let them meet although he didn't like the circumstance. Emma had died a year ago with cancer and although he was saddened by it, Ashley was very nice. Her mother would come once a week and take Aurora on a clothes shopping spree and when Roy heard that he once again was having a nice relationship with a girlfriend's parents asked how he lucked out again.
"Mommie Ashley is taking me to the zoo today if I do my homework," Aurora told him.
Johnny nodded and sat up. He acknowledged that he at least got five hours of sleep. Smiling at her he wondered if Aurora knew how glad he was that he had a child like her. She could be hyper and noisy but he loved her all the same. Jenny often buddied up with her even though they were two grades apart and although he wasn't sure about Chris yet he knew that the boy stared at her when he thought no one was looking.
"I'm going to take spanish, it's a good language to take up and my friend Dakota is giving me lessons because she knows it," Aurora said as she did her spelling.
Johnny looked at her with a suprised look wondering why she was going to persue another language.
"I thought you said you wanted to make a difference with people," Johnny asked.
"Silly I have ta know languages to help people. Look at Uncle Marco,"Aurora said looking at him like he was silly.
"Daddie, what's a hysterectomy," she asked.
Johnny looked at her hiding his reaction choosing to remain expressionless. The truth was Aurora had to have one when she was two to stop the bleeding because of the sexual abuse she had went through under her stepfather. That meant that it was impossible for her to carry any kids of her own and he hated that later she would never experience it.
"You'll know when your older," he told her.
"How old," she asked curiously.
"Seventeen," Johnny told her.
She nodded and went back to her homework.
Chris Desoto was sure that nobody caught him looking at her at the barbeque but the thing was he didn't know why he did it himself. He had always thought when the three year old care free little girl Aurora entered their lives that she was just a stupid little girl but when he saw her at a recent party he didn't know why he felt this way but he felt different. He no longer thought of her as that silly little girl that tried to make everybody laugh but a girl that was real intelligent for someone being in kidergarden.
He knew he was way too old for her too. He always saw her playing with Jen and most of the time Dakota, Paris, Brownie, Kylie or some other friend Aurora had known in her daycare. She had a lot of friends and usually when someone was mean to her she didn't hesitate to tell them what was on her mind. One time she got in trouble because the kid brought her close to tears and she kicked the third grader in the belly earning her a detention and a talk between her principal and her daddy.
He didn't know if this knew feeling meant that he felt protective of her like she was his sister or if he liked her. Anyways, he didn't want anyone to know. Alot of kids at the school said how annoying she was already and how she was always trying to change the world. But he knew there was more to her than met the eye and he liked that she remained herself and didn't become alot like the others that want to be popular so they make new friends and forget their old ones.
No she didn't and he found that he really respected her above all that.