Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fourteen
Amber
A hundred different thoughts and feelings were going through Smithy's mind as he followed Chloe up the stairs. She stopped at the top of the stairs, she turned round and faced him "Are you sure you want to do this? Or do you need more time to get used to the idea?"
"No, I'm ready".
Chloe opened the door to her right and stood back. Smithy took a deep breath and stepped in front of the door. Sat on the floor playing with her dolls was a little girl, with dark medium length hair. She looked up, titled her head to one side, looked at Smithy and smiled. Amber stood up and walked towards Smithy, she held out her hand to him. He turned to look at Chloe who just nodded. Smithy took hold of Amber's hand and she led him into her room and sat down on the floor.
Smithy stood for a couple of seconds, then joined Amber on the floor. He watched her playing, and didn't notice Chloe come into the room and stand by the door.
"Are you my Daddy?" Amber broke the silence; she didn't even look up from what she was doing.
Smithy's heart started to race, he wasn't quite sure what he should say. Amber stopped what she was doing and looked up into his eyes. She stood up and went over to her bedside table, picked something up and returned to the floor and next to Smithy.
She held out a picture frame and said "This is you and Mummy".
Smithy took the picture frame from her and looked down; looking back at him was indeed himself and Chloe at their engagement party.
He looked at Amber and then at Chloe, she just smiled at him.
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Chloe stood at the door watching the pair of them together; she had always seen the resemblance Amber had of her Dad but seeing them together made her heart skip a beat.
As Amber asked Smithy if he was her Daddy, Chloe felt like her heart would stop as she waited for him to say something, but he didn't. However Amber knew what she was doing, Chloe watched her get up and her picture of Chloe and Smithy and hand it too him. All she could do was smile when he looked at her and pray that he would say something soon.
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Smithy held the picture in his hand and could feel tears at the back of his eyes; he hadn't seen this picture for ages. He looked at Chloe and then back to Amber "Yes sweetie, it is me and you're Mummy"
"That means you're my Daddy, 'cos Mummy told me that this was you." She pointed at Smithy in the photo
The tears came now, he couldn't stop them as he whispered "Yes I'm your Daddy" and he swept her up into his arms. He hugged her so tight, and Amber put her arms round his neck and hugged him back. Through the tears he could Chloe crying too.