A few hours later Abigail was sleeping. It was past their bedtime, and Kate promised her daughter she would tell her about her father this week. Now Jodi was here, they were sitting at the table.
"Jodi,
how can I tell her about Daniel?" Kate let her head fell into her
hands. "How?"
"I don't know, squirt, but you have to. She
has the right to know."
"I know.. It's just.. Not really
easy to tell everything, y'know."
Jodi nodded. "I know."
She let her hand rest on Kate's shoulder, and gave it a little
squeeze. "I know."
"And where do I start.."
"Maybe
boarding school? That's were everything started.." Jodi looked at
Kate carefully. "That's where you met him."
"Yeah.. Okay.
So, I'll tell her what happened at school, that's easy." Kate
sighed. "And than I'll tell her about the hike.."
Jodi
nodded. "Good.. You can do it," she said while she smiled at
Kate.
The next morning Abigail was awake really early. She
went to Kate's room and knocked on the door. "Mommy?"
Kate
woke up because she heard someone knock on the door. She wanted to
tell the person to go away, when she heard Abigail. She sat up and
said that she could come in. A second later the door opened and
Abigail walked in. She climbed onto the bed and lied down next to her
mother. Kate watched her daughter while she went back to sleep.
Daniel was so much like their daughter.. Right now Abigail just
reminded Kate of Daniel, and she didn't want to think of him! Not
after what he did..
Daniel walked towards the house, where
Kate and Jodi were sitting. He sat down next to Kate and kissed
her.
"Hey." Kate said to him.
"Hey, hon.." He wrapped
his arms around her and Kate leaned against him. Jodi smiled. She
never saw Kate so happy before.
Daniel had to go tomorrow, but he
hadn't told Kate yet. He didn't know how to. He had to go, there
was no other way. There was just one problem; he didn't want to
leave his lovely Kate. He looked at Jodi, until she finally stood up.
"I have to go. Check on Charlotte." Nick and Tess were gone
today, so Jodi had to look after her. Well – she didn't have to,
she wanted to. She always liked little children, and children seem to
like her – Charlotte did. She waved to Kate, who waved back. "See
you tonight."
Kate looked after Jodi while she walked away. When
she was gone, Daniel took a hold of Kate's shoulders and turned her
to face him.
"What's wrong?" Kate saw Daniel's face turn
serious and a bit sad. She looked at him carefully and stroked his
cheek. "Tell me, baby.."
"I'm so sorry, Kate.." When he
saw Kate look at him with questions written all over her face, he
went on. "I have to go away tomorrow. Tomorrow morning, before you
are even awake.."
"What! Why?"
Daniel touched Kate's
face, and stroked with his finger from her forehead to her chin. Kate
grabbed his hand, and hold it. "Why?" she repeated quietly.
"I
just have to.." He couldn't tell her why.. But he had to.
"Work."
Kate wrapped her arms around Daniel and hold him
tightly. She closed her eyes and felt Daniel's arms around her.
The rest of the day they spend together, and the next morning
Daniel was – well, he was gone.
Kate felt Abigail
snuggle onto her lap and she gave her a little kiss on her hair. "I
love you, honey.." she whispered. Abigail looked up. "Love you
to, mommy!"
Kate smiled. She couldn't believe that she, this
adorable little girl, was really Daniel's..
"Okay..
Do you want to know how your daddy is?" This wasn't really a
question, Kate already knew the answer to it. Of course Abigail would
want to know! She was the one asking Kate's head of lately..
Abigail sat up and nodded really hard. "Yeah!"
"Right..
Well, do you remember I told you about aunt Jodi and me? When we
where at boarding school?"
Abigail nodded again. "That's
where you met aunt Jodi, right?"
"Yes. Well, I also met a nice
man there, Daniel Ponto. He was one of our teachers."
Abigail
looked at her mother, her big brown eyes widened. "Is he my
daddy?"
Kate gave Abigail a kiss on her nose and nodded. "Yes,
he is.." she whispered.
"Do you have a picture!" Abigail
jumped on the bed, she really wanted to see how her daddy looked
like. Daniel, Kate and Abigail.. What would be her last name? It
always was Manfredi, but she heard her aunty Tess and uncle Nick say
that children would always get the man's last name.. So then it
would be Abigail Ponto.. She giggled. That was weird.. She liked
Abigail Manfredi better.
Kate smiled. "Hon, honey, just sit..
My story isn't over yet." She took Abigail's hands into her
own. "You wanted to know everything right?"
Abigail sat down
again, but she was still really curious of how her father would be.
Kate went on. "After school I didn't see Daniel for a long
time. But than Jodi and I had a trip, with al old schoolfriends. What
I didn't know is that Daniel would come to.. But he did." Kate
stopped for a moment, and watched Abby. She looked at Kate with big
eyes, and really concentrated. "We got together again, and well..
Then Daniel told me he had to go away," Kate's expression
changed, even though she did her best not to let that happen. Abby
didn't notice, she was too busy listening. "A few weeks after he
was gone, I found out that I was pregnant.. With you." Kate smiled
at Abigail and played with one of Abby's curls.
Abigail nodded.
"Cool.." Kate laughed. That was really something for Abigail to
say; Cool.. Everything was 'cool' with her. "But do you have a
picture?"
Kate stood up and opened her closet. Abigail watched
her, but didn't say anything. Kate looked for a while, but than
found what she was looking for. She took it out of the closet and sat
down on the bed again with an old photoalbum. She opened it. Abigail
sat down next to her mother, and Kate got one arm around Abigail's
shoulders. With her other hand she selected a page with a picture of
her and Daniel together. "This is him."
Abigail looked at the
picture and after a few seconds her eyes widened. She gasped for air.
"Mommy.." she said with a low voice. Kate looked at her. "I
know this
guy!"
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