The best present in the world for him on his birthday was just a homemade card, a huge kiss, and a tight hug from his daughter. She was his life, and had been since she was an unborn child. Learning the true meaning of love and what it means to live, the day she was brought into this world. He knew that not anybody could be more perfect than his daughter, his beautiful little girl. Promising to never let anything or anyone hurt her, promising to always be there, to always provide for her, and to give her anything that she needs, forever being his little princess.
Before he knew it he was her hero. She followed him around like a duckling follows its mother, never missing a step. She watched his every action and every reaction, making him laugh as she tried to be exactly like him. Sure her mother’s yell was scary but her dad’s disappointment was heart breaking. Her dad was the greatest. He was the only man that she would ever need in her life. In her eyes she always kept her dad on the top of any empire.
They built things together, learned things together, and especially fought with each other on who was right about how some new project went together. Sure she enjoyed to go shopping with her mom but she could never wait to go back home with her dad and watch a football game, find something to fix around the house , and she especially could not wait to get back home and play fight with her dad, getting better every time as she learned to doge his tricks.
Their relationship never changed as she grew up. Of course guys came in and out of her life but none of them could ever come close to even meaning what her dad meant to her. He was the best. He was unstoppable, invincible, the strongest man she could ever meet. Always including her father in every thought she had before every single action she made. He was her king and he was always going to be there. Besides nothing bad could ever happen to her father, he was superman.
Then one day he got sick. It was only the flu he assured her and with some rest he would be feeling better in no time. Of course it was, she knew her dad was fine, and she kept picking on him as she always did. Soon enough her dad went from only supposed to be sick with the flu for about a week to having it for a whole month. He couldn’t let her know though as he went to the doctor somewhat nervous about what it could be. What a relief, its only pneumonia which can be treated right? As he thought he was successfully hiding his worry from his daughter she knew everything that was happening. Night after night she prayed to god to heal her hero.
After about a year they diagnosed him with a lung disease. Pulling away to hide his stress about what he was going to do she could hear him crying in his room by himself. She soon filled up with anger blaming everyone and everything for why her dad was sick. Starting to slack and slowly give up on everything she did to make her dad proud. How could he do this to her how could he get sick?
She watches him pass around the house back and forth. He hasn’t slept and is now starting to slowly slip away from his mind. Now she is the one pulling away, not knowing what to do to help her king get better. Not being able to handle it at her house she finds herself doing anything not to be home. Soon enough she finds herself crying all alone in her room always asking god what she did wrong to have all of this to her father, and promising whatever it takes to get her hero back, to get the only man she needs in her life healthy again.
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