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#18 Father Daughter Dance
"Yes Derek." Casey McDonald-Venturi told her husband sternly. Derek replied, equally stern, "No Casey. Look I know that you and Violet love dresses and girly things. I also know that you are princess, my Princesses, but that doesn't mean I have to be a princess too. I am not wearing a hot pink tie!" He finished, crossing his arms firmly. Casey sighed, "Fine, Violet was right all along, I should have listened to her. I just knew how badly she wanted it." Casey mumbled, mostly to herself. However this got Derek's interest, "What was Violet right about? What did she badly want?" Casey tried to keep a straight face as she told Derek, "Violet knew you would never agree to the hot pink tie, she just really wanted her dress to match your tied." Derek groaned outwardly, ran his fingers through his chestnut locks, and sighed, "Fine, fine, you got me. I'll wear the stupid tie if it will make her happy." Casey's face lit up, she knew that she had gotten him, "Great!" she replied happily.
The next night Casey was curling her daughter Violet's hair into small, multiple waves. She then pulled part of her hair into a waterfall braid, and left the rest down, curled. "Are you excited for tonight?" Casey asked her daughter as put the finishing touches on her hair. Violet's face stretched into a huge grin as she replied excitedly, "Yes! It's going to be awesome!" Casey smiled, looking at her beautiful daughter.
A half hour later, Violet was all dressed and ready to go. Her dress was a knee length, hot pink dress, with a tu-tu style bottom and a halter top. "You look so beautiful my purple crayon." Casey said affectionately, starting to tear up a bit. "Mom don't cry." Violet said. walking to her mother, squeezing her hand lovingly. "I'm not. It's just that you are growing up so fast." Casey replied. "Now let's go down so your Dad can see you, and you two can head off."
Derek was waiting at the bottom of the stairs, when he finally heard Violet and Casey heading down the stairs. He turned around and was stunned by his gorgeous daughter, "Wow sweetheart you look beautiful! You are definitely a Venturi!" Derek replied smugly. Casey rolled her eyes good naturedly and chuckled softly. "Thanks Dad." Violet replied, taking Derek's hand as she took the last step. The two were heading out the door when Casey quickly grabbed Derek's arm. "I want to get a picture of the two of you first! You both look so great!" She said, pulling them back in.
After a few picture, Derek and Violet were ready to go. Derek kissed his wife on the lips and they said their goodbyes.
When Derek and Violet arrived at the school gym, the place was already packed. The gym was covered in decorations, and on the walls were picture of the students with their parents, and a quote from the students about what they loved about the parent present. Derek didn't have much time to look at the wall, because Violet immediately dragged him on to the dance floor. The music was mostly very pop and upbeat, the two were having a blast, as Violet had inherited Casey's dance skills, and Derek had his "Crazy Legs" skills. When a slow song came on, Derek took Violet's soft, tiny hands into his big, rough paws. She climbed onto his feet and he danced her around, it was a very sweet and tender moment, that although Derek would never admit, was one of his favorite memories as a parent.
When Violet went to dance with her friends, Derek talked jovially with the other Dads, and eventually Derek finally made his way over to the wall. After a few minutes, Derek finally found their picture. It was a picture of him and Violet at a hockey game that the three of them had attended the year before. As if the picture was sweet enough, Violet's quote about Derek was even sweeter. Violet's quote read, "My parents are my favorite people in the entire world. My Dad is the best man in the world. He is funny, always playing jokes on my Mom, Uncle, Aunts, and Grandparents. He is kind, he likes to pretend he is tough, but in reality no one has a kinder soul than him (well besides my Mom). My Dad is so romantic to my Mom, they look like soul mates that you would find in fairy tales. The best part of my Dad is that I get to have him because he's my dad."
Derek's face broke out into a huge grin, and he swore he could feel his heart melt into a puddle of happiness. He knew he was the luckiest husband father, and guy in the world.
His thoughts were suddenly broken, by Violet pulling on his hand, dragging him to the floor for one last dance.