The two adults stood there looking at each other for what felt like an eternity, until a small voice was heard running up behind the blunette.

"Mommy! Mommy!" Dawn broke eye contact with Paul and shifted her attention to her daughter. She bent down and lifted Aurora, holding her daughter on her hip.

"Yes, baby?" She questioned as he daughter was flailing her arms excitedly.

"Aurora! What did I tell you about-" Volkner was cut off as he saw the scene before him. Dawn was there, holding an excited Aurora, with Paul standing there, looking between him and Dawn.

"Volkner, where were you? What if she got kidnapped?!" Dawn scolded the blonde, causing him to sweatdrop.

"Dawn, wait no, she just ran off. I was paying for something she wanted, and she just ran off because she wanted to show it to you." He looked at Aurora to back him up.

"Yeah, mommy. I wanted to show you that I got a turtwig doll! Isn't he cute?" she said as she held up the small plush to her mother.

Dawn's eye softened and she left out a small sigh. "Yes, honey. He's adorable."

Aurora smiled happily and jumped into Volkner's arms. "Let's go! Let's go! I want good seats! We'll be inside, mommy!"

Volkner rolled his eyes as he obeyed the toddler's commands and started walking towards the arena, leaving Dawn and Paul alone.

Dawn looked down to the ground, not wanting to look back at Paul after he saw Aurora. 'He's probably so angry at me for not telling him,' she thought to herself.

She didn't dare to speak, so he did.

"She's, what, five? Six?" he asked, his voice sounding a bit upset.

"She'll be turning six in a couple months" Dawn replied quietly, and slowly looked up at him to see that he was angry, like she had suspected he would be.

"So you leave me six years ago, and manage to get knocked up and have a kid? With Volkner, of all people?" he questioned, fuming with anger. He had been pining over her for years, and here she was with a family of her own, him completely forgotten.

"What? Wait, no. I-"

"No, you know what, forget it. " Paul cut her off. He didn't want to hear about how Volkner was superior to him. "Whatever, have fun with your happy little family."

He began to walk away and tears spilled from her eyes. "Damnit, Paul!" She yelled, not caring who was looking at her. Paul stopped and turned back to see her looking straight at him, angry and crying. "Don't give me that bullshit!" She screamed at him. His eyes went wide in shock at her yelling. "You can't give me that kind of attitude when you-" she was cut off by Paul covering her mouth with his hand.

"Damn troublesome, let's go to a café and talk there like civilized adults. Unlike you, I have an image to hold up."

The blunette pouted and continued to let the tears stream down her face as he led her to a small café. As they were being seated, she pulled out her Poketech and sent a message to Volkner, telling him that she would be late to the contest.

"So what was it you were trying to scream at me earlier," Paul demanded to know, obviously still angry with her.

"Right as I was saying; you cannot give me that attitude when it was YOU who cheated on ME all those years ago," she said as she hid her face in her hands. She couldn't look at him. She was angry and hurt, he was angry and hurt. She wasn't ready for this. This wasn't supposed to happen.

"Okay sure, but you went and got knocked up!" he spat out like it was venom.

"You're such a fucking idiot," she mumbled into her palms, sobbing.

"How am I the idiot, Dawn? You just up and left, you didn't even say goodbye.

"Yes I did. I said goodbye when I saw you with your whore in your bedroom!" she spat back at him, regretting her trip to Hearthome.

"You don't even know what happened!" He said angrily. "You just saw what you wanted to see and made assumptions. You were probably cheating with Volkner anyway if you have that kid. She was probably just a mistake from your affair."

"For your information," Dawn started, getting angrier and angrier, "Aurora's father is not in her life. Volkner is just a friend. And yes, she was a mistake, but she was the greatest mistake I've ever made. I love her with all my heart, her sister too, even if she's not here."

"So you had two kids, and just abandoned the other, charming."

Dawn slapped him. "How dare you! I was 19 when I got pregnant and their father was not in the picture. Do you remember who I was with when I was 19, huh Paul?" Paul just looked at her, holding his cheek. "I was with you, douchebag! I was hopelessly in love with you, and you just betrayed me," she said, getting quieter with each word. "Why did you do that to me?"

"Dawn," Paul started to speak. "I would've never cheated on you. Back then, I was crazy about you, even if I couldn't show it. That girl was some random fangirl that broke into my house. I was napping, and she just came out of nowhere. I was trying to tell you, but you just ran out and left. You had already left by the time I came to your place the next day."

Dawn looked at his eyes, seeing remorse in them. He was telling the truth, Paul didn't lie. She started crying harder. She laid her head down on the table. "I'm sorry," she wept, hoping to wake up, for all this to be a dream.

Paul sighed, thinking that her apologies were for cheating on him, until she calmed down and began to talk again. Her voice was so quiet, he had to strain himself to hear her.

"Her name is Aurora, and her birth certificate does have her father's name on it. She's never met her father because of a stupid misunderstanding. I'm so stupid."

"What do you mean, Troublesome?" he asked, not quite understanding what she meant.

"It's you, Paul."

"What's me?" he asked, clearly confused.

"You're her father."