Chapter 6:

No One POV

10 minutes before

The Latina got up from the couch she shared with her fiancé and left him and his best friend and went to her best friends' daughter's room. When she got there she took a deep breath and opened the room's door.

As she got in the room her eyes went straight to the little girl on the bed. Her eyes widened as she saw the little girl with a cast on her arm trusting from side to side, tears silently streaming down her closed eyes.

She went to the girl's bed and gently, by stroking her long hair and talking softly, woke her up. "Anna, sweetie, wake up, it's just a dream, just a bad dream." She said softly, stroking her little niece's hair.

"Aunty Tish?" Anna asked quietly. The aunt's heart broke as she heard the sadness and hurt in the girl's voice. Although the corner of her mouth rose a bit at the sound of her niece calling her 'Tish', when the little girl was a baby she couldn't pronounce the 'R' in Trish so she called her Tish, and for some reason it stuck.

"Yeah, that's me kiddo." She told her, gently wiping the tears from Anna's face, and kissing her forehead.

"Tish, I had a bad dream!" She said, starting to cry again. Her cries were so quite the two men in the living room didn't hear her.

"Aww, it's okay sweetheart." Trish said softly, picking her up so she can hug her and help her calm, like she saw her best friend, the girl's mother, doing so many times before.

"I want daddy!" Anna said, pushing herself from the shocked aunt. Trish thought Anna would want her mom but not Austin, she only knew him for a couple of days, and she couldn't have attachedto him so fast, could she?

"Umm, he is in living room." Trish said putting the girl on the floor.

As Anna walked to the living room she could hear voices which she recognized as her father's and her uncle's.

As she entered the living room, ready to cry in her father's arms, she heard something that broke her heart.

"What you?you are not going to behere tomorrow. Trish and I are now here, you don't have to stay here anymore, youcan just go back to your life, and forget everything that happened. It's not like youhave a reason to stay here. I am sure you waited for an opportunity like this sinceyou got the phone call."She heard her uncle tells her father.

"Daddy is that true? You are just going to leave?" She said as she entered the living room, unseen by the two men, the hurt, confusion and betrayal she felt as she what her uncle said, clear in her voice.

Austin POV

Upon hearing Anna's voice we both turned our heads to see my baby girl standing in the living room entrance, tears streaming down her face, her eyes puffy and red. Her good arm was holding a tiny purple teddy bear. 'What happened?' that was the only question on my mind when I saw her like that.

"Hey monkey, come here, I missed you!" Dez said softly, knelling and opening his arms for a hug. Wow, the changes in his personality are so quick, it's amazing.

"Hey uncle Dez, I missed you too, but not now!" She said not looking at Dez but at me. "Daddy is that true? You are going to leave me?" she asked, her voice full of hurt and confusion.

"Baby girl, no, of course not!" I said, coming to her, kneeling in front of her, and putting my large hands on her tiny face, wiping away the tears. "I promise you. I'll never leave you, Dez made a mistake." I told her softly looking straight in to her eyes. "I love you, you are my little princess." I told her, and kissed her hair.

"I love you too daddy." She said smiling and kissed my left cheek.

"Look Austin, it's not like you are Anna's real father, I am." Dez said as Anna pulled away. Wait, hold it! What does he mean by that? I am not Anna father? He is? I know I am, it's my name on the birth certificate, I was Ally's boyfriend when she got pregnant, heck, when you look at Anna you see a mini-me only with girl features.

"What do you mean you are my daddy, uncle Dez?" she asked.

"Anna…" Dez started, but was cut off by Trish, who stayed so quiet until then, that I didn't even notice when she came in to the room.

"Dez, what's going on? Why did you just say that? We all know that Austin is Anna's father! It's his name on her birth certificate, he was Ally's boyfriend when she got pregnant, heck, when you look at Anna you see a mini-Austin only with girl features." She said, as if she could have read my mind,all that I thought. From her voice and facial expression that she was pretty annoyed with him,

"Listen, when Ally found out she was expecting, she came to me. Every ultrasounds she had to go to, I took her. I was there to help her along her pregnancy, I was there when she found out she was having a girl. I was there when she felt Anna's first kick. I was the one she called when her water broke and I was the one to take her to the hospital. I was the one who held her hand and got his own broken. I was the one to cut her umbilical cord and the first to see her.

"I was the one who took Anna to the hospital when she got sick and got diagnosed. I have been acting as Anna's father ever since Ally showed up in my apartment almost four years ago. Now that Ally can't take care of Anna, it's me who should take her in. I practically raised her for the past 3 years!" Dez yelled. NO he doesn't get to do that, he can't say that! He can't use the fact I wasn't here to be a factor, I wasn't here because I didn't know! Wait why am I saying it to myself?

"NO! You CAN'T say that! It's not my fault that I wasn't here! ALLY left me! I asked you to help me find her via the emails she sent me, but YOU said you can that the emails weren't traceable, that they were from a blocked IP ort something! YOU lied to me and even thought you both KNEW neither of you told me!" I yelled at him angry.

"If I had known I would have jumped on the first plane to New York to be here with them! Do you think I like that fact I wasn't there for my daughter's birth? Her first word? Steps? I hate the fact that my baby was in the hospital in only 18 months old and I wasn't there, I was performing in some club. All of those have been killing me from the inside ever since I learned about her." I kept on saying, only my voice wasn't as strong, and there wasn't anger in it anymore, only hurt and saddens. "But you know what kills me the most?" I asked my voice only a bit louder than a whisper. "The fact that only reason I know is for the fact that Ally is hurt." I finished and broke down; I was sitting on the floor, knees pulled to my chest and my head on my knees.

Suddenly I felt two small arms around my neck, one had a cast on. "Please don't cry daddy, I love you, and Mommy love you too! She told me!"I heard my baby girl say, while hugging me tightly. I lifted my head from my knees, and wrapped my long arms around her tiny body, hugging her as tight as I could without hurting her.

"Thank you Bellbell, I love you too, I just really don't like it that I wasn't for you and your Mommy all this time." I told her while running my hand through her long blonde hair.

"But you are here now, and that's all that matters! "My daughter said, everytime I hear her speak I can see more and more of Ally inside of her,just like Ally at the age of three Anna speaks floaty, mostly without gremmer mistakes, like most kids at this age, and she is as smart as her mother if not even smarter.

"Have anyone ever tell you you are just like your mother?"I asked her, as we pulled way from embrace.

"Yup I get that a lot. "She said, giggling, which was like music to my ears.

"It's true. Anna's just like you on the the outside, but on the inside, she is a mini Ally."Trish said smiling softly. "A perfect combination, especially in her musical talent, considering that she can dance and act like her dad, write music like her mom, and sing and play like both her parents."She added.

"Yeah a perfect Austin&Ally. " Dez said and I could hear a bitter tone in his voice. "But I still think that until Ally wakes up Anna needs to stay with me."he continued.

"No she doesn't,she needs to me with his her father, and that's me. "I said, the sadness no longer in my voice, the anger was back and it filled my voice.

"No! I am more of her father than you!"he yelled back.

"I am Anna's father!"

"You have never been here, how can you be her father?"Dez yelled back.

"It wasn't my fault I wasn't here! And it doesn't change the fact that I am her father!"I yelled back.

"STOP IT!"Just as Dez was about to open his mouth he was cut off by both Trish and Anna yelling at us to stop fighting.

"Trish can you please tell Dez that I am Anna's father and she needs to be with me?"I asked the latina.

"No! Don't go and make fiancée turn on me!" Dez yelled at me, angry.

"Don't Dez, Austin is right, he is Anna's father, not you." Trish told Dez. He was about to protest but she put her hand up to stop him. "Don't even try to protest. Yes, for the past three years and some months you were here to help Ally with Anna and Austin wasn't, but we all know it wasn't his fault, nor it was Ally's or ours. The only one you can blame is Jimmy, and we both know that!" Trish said to the angry redhead. She kept talking to him but I didn't listen, all I could hear in my head is 'it was Jimmy's fault' what did she mean by that? What does Jimmy has to with all of that?

"What do you mean Jimmy's fault, what does he have to do with Ally's leaving?" I asked.

"Look Anna should be in bed by now; it's late, go put her down and I'll explain everything after." She told me, looking at half asleep Annabelle.

Ok I said and picked up Anna who instantly wrapped her arms (even the casted one) tightly around my neck. I made sure I held her good, so she won't fall and headed to her bedroom, and put her to sleep.

After putting her in the bed and tucking her in, I leaned in and kissed her forehead and then turned around wanting to go back out to the living room, but her voice made me turn around and go back to her bed.

"Daddy, what did Dez mean when he said that he was my daddy?"

"I don't know princess, but no matter what he or anyone else for that matter says, I'll always going to be here with you, and be your father, forever." I told her, by now I was sitting on the upper edge of the bed, next to her head.

"So that means you are never going to leave me, right?" She asked me, hope filling her voice. "Because you are my daddy and I don't want you to go!" She added, and pride filled me, she wants me in her life! Even thought I wasn't here up until the crash she still wants me on her life.

"I won't leave you until you tell me to leave, okay? I don't think I would be able to leave even if you beg me too, you are my little Bellbelle." I told her smiling a small smile as I ticked her belly a bit and she giggled.

"I'll never ask you to leave! I love you, Daddy." She told me, still giggling from the previous tickling.

"I love you too princess." I told her softly kissing her head. "sweet dreams." I said and just as I was about to get up she pulled my hand and asked me to song. Of course since I can't tell her no, and there is no point in doing so, so I started singing her 'Never alone' the same one I sang to her in the hospital.