My parents say that as soon as they stopped bickering long enough to realized they loved each other is how I came into this world. I was unplanned for sure but not unloved, not even a little bit. My name is Delilah Hart. My parents named me Delilah after the song "Hey There Delilah" and because, well, it's the only thing they could agree upon. My parents are the best. My dad's name is Wade, he's a bartender at the Rammer Jammer. Sometimes I go there when he's working and I sit at the bar and drink soda or apple juice out of wine glasses like my mom. And sometime, if things are reallyyyyy slow and uhh *cough* mom's not around, my dad let's me come behind the bar with him and I help him make drinks! Yep, I get to put the lemons, limes, and olives in everything. Dad says it's a tough job, not all little girls can do it, but I do it well. I love my dad. I told him one day that I wanted to be just like him when I grew up. But he said that I should be like my mom. That, that would make him proud, for me to make something of myself. So now when I grow up I wanna be just like my mom! I wanna be a doctor! My mom's name is Zoe. I love my mom. She says were best friends and partners in crime! My mom had this dream of getting this Cardio Jurassic fellowship thing or something like that, and one day she got it! But get this! This is how great my mom is! She gave it alllll up... for me! Mom says that her heart is with my heart, and that's here in BlueBell. I really wanna see New York one day. Mom says she'll take me there one day when I'm older. My family's pretty great. We're not perfect, but hey! Who's is? I'm happy.
Mom was reading me a bed time story from my fairy tall book one night when I asked her is she loved daddy like the people in the stories in the book. Mom said that she did love daddy but in a different way. Mom said that dad makes her happier than anyone else. He makes her laugh every day. Loves her every night. He gives her what she needs. He's there for her and he kisses her at the start and end of each day. And he gave her me. My dad says that as long as he has a cold beer, a roof over his head, and his girls (me and mom) that he's happier then a pair of dogs in heat. Mom says he shouldn't say those things around me... I don't know why though. I also don't know why dogs would be happy in heat? All the dogs I've seen hate the heat! They get all panty and sweaty and stuff. Dad says I'll understand when I'm older. Mom says MUCH older.
Speaking of dogs... I'd always wanted one. On my 6th birthday my mommy and daddy got me one! and not just a dog.. a puppy! An Austrian Shepherd I named Haven. She has blue eyes just like me. I love her and she loves me. Mom always wanted a dog growing up and is glad I have one. Dad says dogs are good for teaching responsibility. Mom says dad must not have had a dog growing up then. Sometimes my parents fight, but not like the people in the movie's do, well at least rarely. I asked mom why her and dad bicker and pick on each other so much. She said that's the way they've always been and that if daddy didn't mess with her she'd think there was something. Daddy says something different about why he teases mom so much but I'm not allowed to say... also I don't really get it either.
My parents don't live together together. They're neighbors though. Most of the time we live at my father's house. At his house I have my own room! It's small, but I like it. Dad painted stars on my ceiling that glow in the dark! Coolest nightlight ever right? My bed's a bunk bed without the lower bunk. Dad says it's called a loft. Mom had him build removable rails on the sides so I don't fall. Mom and dad sleep in dad's room. Sometimes I get to sleep with them. At mom's house I kinda have my own room, but its a guest room. Mom and I mostly sleep at dad's house but one of two nights a week dad has to work late and we stay at mom's house. I like mom's house. It's beautiful.
I go to school, I do ballet, I take art lessons, and I'm learning the guitar! Dad got me my very own pink guitar! I know 3 chords already and one day I'm gonna learn me and my dad's song. "Hey There Delilah" by the Plain White T's. The song I was named after. Dad sings that song to me and mother a lot. I love it. Music is me and dad's thing but Ballet is me and mom's thing! Well mom and I have a lot of things on account of us being best friends. She's never ever ever ever missed a recital. She sits in the front row every time and after the big final recital at the end of each year she buys me flowers. Medicine is also one of our many things. We play doctor with my dolls and plastic animals. I practice my surgery every day too! I can get all the pieces out of the operation game without ever making the buzz go off! Mom says that real operations are a little different but that I gotta start somewhere. I tell my mommy everything. Like I said, we're BEST friends.
One time I asked my daddy why mommy and I didn't have the same last name as him. We're Hart and he's Kinsella. He said it's because he and mommy aren't married. He said you didn't have to be married to be in love or be a family. He told me that when I was born he and mom talked about it and they agreed I should have mommy's last name. I asked him that if they were both my parents that shouldn't I have his name in there too? Or did I have to be married to have his last name too? Dad just laughed at that and asked if I wanted his last name and I smiled and nodded. He said all right and He said that by the power invested in him as Alabama's greatest bartender he dubbed me Delilah Kinsella-Hart. Mommy smiled really big when I told her about it.
Hope you liked the first chapter of this little story! :) All the chapter's are going to be written in this format. I just had some idea's while watching Hart of Dixie that I thought we're cute. Sooo I wrote them down. Hope you enjoy :) Please read and review! I love positive comments :) Stay tuned for the next chapter of "Delilah of Dixie."