Disclaime: Journey Maker doesn't own Yugioh

Chapter Twelve

Today Cassandra is turning eleven and she asked "her dad and grandpa if she could have a party with some of her friends?" Greg smiled at Joey and then he asked "is there going to be boys at this party?"

Cassandra kind of blushed as she said "is that alright?" Joey then said "how many and you know that I will have to ask their parents if it's alright if they come."

She let out one of her little squeals and runs and hugs them and then she ran to her room. Greg turned to his son who was sitting there looking in the direction his daughter had just gone and he said "son are you alright?"

Joey looked at his dad and he said "was I that age when I started liking girls?"

Greg laughed and he said "yes you were, in fact your mother nearly fainted the first time you came home and told us that you had a girlfriend."

Joey laughed and then he sobered up and said "I don't know what I'll do when she tells me that."

Cassandra came back with a list of kids she wanted to come to her party and with each name was the kids home phone number and then she asked her grandpa "could we have it outside and would it be alright if we play music and dance?"

Joey nearly choked when she said that and as Greg hit him on his back to help him from choking he whispered to his son "hey, it's just kids having a party and dancing nothing more."

When Joey stopped coughing and as he wiped the tears from his eyes he asked his daughter "what kind of dancing are you talking about?"

Cassandra then turned on the radio to her favorite station and started showing them the dance that the kids would be doing and it wasn't anything bad, so Greg looked at his son and then he said "sure it would be alright."

She went back to her room and Joey started calling the parents on the list and as he introduced himself they all told him "sure our kids can come to your daughter's party."

Now all they had to do is plan on what the kids wanted to eat, get the cake ordered and buy ear plugs to help prevent their ears from being busted by the music that Cassandra wanted to play at the party.

Two days before her party Cassandra went to her dad and said as she blushed a little "dad, I need to go buy some bras."

Joey wanted to just die, his baby was growing up and what the hell did he know about buying girls bras anyway? He looked at his daughter and said "alright let grandpa know that we're going to the Mall."

So they got into the car and drove to the Mall and when they got to the store for young girls and went inside, he wasn't ready for what they sold there. A Saleswoman came over and smiled at his bewildered expression and said "sir can I help you and your daughter with anything?"

Cassandra said "I need to buy some bras." The lady smiled at her and said "come with me, I know exactly what you might like." As he followed them he thought to himself "do little girls really wear these things?"

The lady then picked out several bras and showed them to Cassandra and she held them up for her dad to see, well he just wanted to cry. Cassandra went to try them on and the lady asked him "first time?"

Joey looked at her and she smiled and said "you've got a very beautiful daughter there, and she is going to grow up to be a very special young lady because of the love I see you have for her."

Joey thanked her and said "this is the hardest thing I've ever had to do and I don't want her to grow up."

The lady chuckled and said "no dad does, but you know what, the still do and from the way your daughter talks and acts you've done a great job raising her, so be proud of her and let her grow up."

Joey smiled and thanked her for "what she said and told her, you sound just like my dad."

Cassandra called "please could you come help me?" The lady excused herself and went to see what she wanted and as she measured Cassandra she found the perfect fit and as Cassandra chose four bras, the lady said "is this all you need?"

Joey looked at her as if she grew a third head and he said "yes please."

The lady laughed as she ran up the cost and as Joey paid for them he said "thanks for talking to me and I hope that I never have to come into this store again."

They left the Mall and went home and as she ran to her room, Greg saw the expression on his son's face and laughingly asked "was it that bad?"

Joey so wanted to smack his father as he said "that is the most horrifying thing that I've ever done, and I'm glad that it's over with." At dinner she told her grandpa "daddy was really great today when we went to buy me the bras, I thought he'd have a fit, but he didn't."

Joey looked at his dad who started laughing and when she asked "what's so funny?" Joey had tears in his eyes as he said "honey, you don't know half of it, I know that you're growing up, but I want to keep you my baby girl forever."

Cassandra went over to her dad and as she wrapped her arms around him she said "daddy, I'll always be your baby even if I do grow up. I love you with all my heart and I'm so glad that you're my daddy." She reached up and wiped the tears from his face as she kissed his cheek.

Joey then hugged her and said "baby, I'm the one whose proud of how you're grown up, and I love you so very much and please forgive me if I want to hold you forever in my arms and not let you go." Greg had tears running down his face as he witnessed the love between his son and granddaughter and he silently said "son you're going to be just fine."

When it was time for Cassandra to go to bed, she hugged both of them and said "good-nite love you both" and went to her room and all of a sudden they heard her scream "DADDY!" Joey and Greg ran to her bedroom and there she sat on the floor with tears running down her face and she said "I'm bleeding."

Joey went to his daughter and picked her up off the floor and said "baby, you've started your cycle, he carried her to the bathroom and stood up on the floor and reached under the sink and gave her a bag and then he said everything that you'll need is in here and if you need any help just let me know, I'll be right out here."

Joey sat down on her bed and looked at his dad and Greg put his arm around him and said "you are one really great dad." Then he went back to the kitchen leaving Joey and his daughter alone.

Cassandra got cleaned up, put on clean panties and put on a pad and went back to her room and there sat her daddy and she went over to him and he held his baby as she cried and he whispered "baby, it's alright."

Cassandra then looked at her daddy and asked "how'd you know that I'd be needing those things?"

Joey told her "your momma talked to me when you were just a baby and made me make a list of things that you'd need and when you started growing I went and bought all the things you would need." She hugged him and kissed him and she said "I love you and I really miss mommy." He kissed her and said "I miss mommy too, but she's with us everyday."

She stayed curled in her daddy's arms and said "will you stay with me till I fall asleep?" Joey kissed her forehead and laid her down and tuned off the light and sat here holding her hand and he the song he sang to her when she would cry after her mommy's death, here is the song he sang to her:

Thank Heaven for Little Girls by Maurice Chevalier

Thank heaven for little girls
for little girls get bigger every day!

Thank heaven for little girls
they grow up in the most delightful way!

Those little eyes so helpless and appealing
one day will flash and send you crashin' thru the ceilin'

Thank heaven for little girls
thank heaven for them all,
no matter where no matter who
for without them, what would little boys do?

Thank heaven... thank heaven...
Thank heaven for little girls!

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Chapter Thirteen Coming Up...Joey talks to his daughter about him and Seto...