Chapter 1

Nina's POV

"Sweet heart you can't possibly be mad about going to a boarding school." I sighed at my daughter Melody. We had been arguing for days about her going to the boarding school I went to for high school.

"Oh ya I'm not mad. No, no. Mad's an understatement to how I feel. Really its more like furious! Why can't I go to a boarding school that's in, oh I don't know, MY OWN COUNTRY!" screamed Melody from the seat right next to mine in the car on the way to the air port.

"No need to scream. Your father and I m-"

"The dad who left before I was born? Why would I want to go to a school that he went to?" she huffed. She was impossible.

"As I was saying. You may meet him there." I said then silently cursed myself for almost telling the secret. I wasn't supposed to tell her about Fabian.

"Like that'll ever happen. I doubt he would want a freak Egypt loving, geek for a daughter. Who is also accident prone and who is HATED by everyone she meets." she said growing quieter with each word. I thought about how much of Fabian she had in her. But I had to take credit for being accident prone and passing it on to my daughter, but as for the thing she got from Fabian, well her personality for one thing is a definite mixcher of me and Fabian, and then Egypt. She loved Egypt. More than anything in the world she wanted to visit Egypt just like Fabian. That was what drove our relation ship off the deep end. He wanted to move to Egypt and I wanted to stay here. We were only dating at the time so we broke up, but over the past few years we started talking and we eventually got back together. Fabian worked at the school and he helped Melody get her scholar ship. Melody of course didn't know anything about this. Fabian wanted to see her, not by pictures or videos but in real flesh and blood. He wanted to be a real dad.

"Um mom. Hello?Anyone home?" said Melody waving her hand in front of my face.

"What? Hum? O.k. lets get you out of here and into England!" I said helping her get her stuff out of the back of the car. I walked her to her gate and said, "Here's your ticket and don't forget to call once you land and don't forget to have fun. I love you now shoo!" I said waving her away. She started walking, but she stopped and turned back looked sad but she eventually started walking again.

As soon as her back was gone and I knew she was on the plane I called Fabian. "Hey" I heard the familler voice say.

"Hey. She just boarded her plane and should get there around 3 or 4 in the afternoon. If you see a very shy and grumpy girl around that time then that should be her." I said and from the other end I heard him laugh.

"O.k. I'll watch out for her." and we both laughed some more.

"You know you really don't have to be doing this." I said and I heard a silence so I continued, "She thinks you abandon us. Trust me, when you tell her that your her dad then she will have some choice words to tell you." I waited but heard nothing. Then Fabian said, "I know she will probably hate me, but I really want to get to know her better. I want to be there for her, and seeing as this is the only way to do it then I will. I want to be her dad for once. Every time you send a picture of her or tell me about her over the phone or video chat it just makes me want to know more about her. It makes me hate ever leaving you both, never getting the chance to watch her grow up." I could hear him starting to get choked up so I said, "It'll just take some time to get used to. But wait she'll end up loving you just like I love you."

"Thanks darling, I have to go and greet the new students and show them to their houses. Bye love." said Fabian and he hung up.