Fragile | ✓

1.7 | Beautiful

17 | Beautiful

→ I think you look beautiful 

→ Seeing you makes my day worth it 

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"MARCO," I holler from the three feet end of the swimming pool, holding onto my floaty toy. The soft cloth of daddy's kerchief served as a blindfold in the game. It blocked me from seeing anything besides blackness but the pool water around me provided sense for my swimming.

"Polo!" A distance voice screamed out. I lunged in the direction of the voice but ended up splashing the water. I splutter water out of my mouth and tug my blindfold off a tiny pit so I could peek through the silky cloth. About five feet away from me, daddy stood on the deck out of the pool, dripping in water.

"Daddy, that's cheating!" He had broken the rules of the game to stay in the water, how dare he? I climb out of the pool using the tiny ladder, embedded into the wall of the pool. Slipping a bit because of the water, I regain balance before jumping onto my daddy's shoulder. He grabs my legs last minute, almost falling over from the sudden weight. "Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater," I sing loudly making several heads turn in our direction. Daddy just waves his hand at them and chuckles.

The blindfold falls to the ground by then, all the jumping making it slowly slip off my tiny forehead through the top. Daddy leans down to pick it up, my legs still wrapped around his torso. He struggles a bit to get up so I jump off his back and pick it up and hand it to him before he could reach it. He smiles at me, a gentle smile that was enough to make my world even at five years old.

"And taking off the blindfold isn't cheating, miss princess? Don't think I didn't notice." I cross my arms and glare, knowing I couldn't deny the statement. He chuckles, unaffected by my unwavering stare. "Come on bumblebee, let's get home should we?"

The sun was starting to set at six, a pallet of colors lining the sky. The pink blended perfectly with the orange and the blue with the purple. The dim sun rays made the place around us the perfect shade of yellow and the reflecting blue of the pool glistened like diamonds.

"Let's go," I scream, jumping up in a flash and running over to the gate. One of my hands stretches up like superman and I bend down running, the water droplets on me jumping out as I run. Daddy chuckled again and followed after picking up our pool bags.

"Hey, come take this before you run off." He calls me back and hands me my water gun with an extended hand. I take it from him before running back to the gate in the same position, except this time with my water gun facing up. "You had fun?" Daddy asks as I take his hand when we cross the street/

"I always have fun playing with my daddy."

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"I can not believe I agreed to this," I grumble from my seat near the dresser. Alex pays no attention to my complaints as she surfs through my closet, mumbling to herself every few seconds.

Alex had appeared at my doorstep today carrying two large bags filled with who knows what. My brothers had let her in with matching confused expressions but she had paid no attention to them, dragging me off to my room. She had declared then that we were going to sneak off to a party. When I asked her why we couldn't just ask the boys to go, she looked at me like I was crazy before rolling her eyes. Her simple reply being, 'I hope you are kidding.' At first, I was skeptical. This was breaking my brothers rules by a lot and would probably ruin our newly formed relationship if I was caught. Alex had assured me we wouldn't be caught and that she would take all the blame if we were.