With that I let a tear slip and run past my lip piercing. Her poem buzzed through the house everyday as she practiced but today I relized my princess had seen my struggles and she as well as any the unjust circumstances I was in just because of ink on skin. But she didn't let it drag her down with me she came through the rain a beautiful rainbow. "I love you too Daddy!" The lady beside me stood up and I caught sight of her sleeves, tattoo sleeves. She applauded and whistled and like wildfire the room blew up with applause. And I swear I saw at least 6 other women with tattoos. My princess gleamed. After the program, I approached the lady that sat beside me. "Hi again" "Hey, uhm it's Talia by the way" "Talia, uhm Aden…" I was buzzing for words. "Mommy!" A little girl with huge puffs came up. "Teal, Hey baby, you did great! I'm so proud of you" "Thanks Mommy! Heyyyy you're Autumn's Daddy!" She looked at me. "I am, hello little one" "Daddy!" "Oh Princess Hey! Im so proud of you, gimme 5!" "Up high!" She laughed before noticing the other child. "Teal!!" They hugged and laughed. "You two know eachother?" Talia asked. "This is only my bestest friend in the whole universe!" Autumn smiled. "Mommy can I go over to Autumn's house she said she got a biiiig playground in the backyard and and she got a dolly castle and all the Ready Rowdy Girls on DTR!" "DVR, Teal" "Oh uhm DVR! Pwease!!!" Talia looked at me. "Is Autumn's mom up for two girls?" "Its just me…her mom" I stopped and leaned into her ear.
"She walked out on us when Autumn was 2 months old, I can never bring myself to tell her the truth." She looked at me and 'oh-ed'. "well how about we both go over there, if mr. Taylers don't mind, I'd like to see too" "Sure, wanna meet us there?" we were now outside. "Sure…" She got quiet. "Where'd you park? You can actually follow us." "We walked" Teal said. Her mom instantly looked embarrassed. "Well, we can give you guys a ride to our house and back home" "We don't wanna be a bother" "No it's fine, we are going to watch some Rowdy Ready Girls" "Its Ready Rowdy Girls Daddy!" Autumn laughed. We got into the car and Autumn picked up her tablet. "I control the music!" "Awesome!"
We got to the house and they were amazed. The girls ran off to Autumn's room and I turned to Talia. "Can I get you something to drink? Juice, water, soda, wine…. blood?" She laughed a bit. "mmh 1 glass of wine then some water I guess." "Fine choice, How about you pick?" "Wine? Oh I know nothing about it" I lead her to my wine pantry. "This Row is day wine, gotta stay alert. This Row is nighttime wine, relaxing after autumn is in bed. This Row is Party wine, gotta give guests a bang. This is the Romance shelf, never touched it but when I do the wine will be aged to perfection I guess. It holds the best wine though, I hear one cup gets things moving, I am very afraid of that bottle." She giggled. "Uhm Day wine will work, we do have two highly active girls in the house" "Good choice, I'll start you on white" I pour two glasses and we got to talking. "So, you two really? Wow, it's quite a come up" "It is, I'm proud of myself, even if no one else is." "I hope one day we can get outta my sister's house, I've been saving for years." "I'm sure it'll happen soon" "I'm hoping" "Uhm your cup's kind of low refill?" "You're not gonna get me I said one glass" "Ah you got me" She giggled, she was amazing and so beautiful. "Hey uhm Saturday…" "It's a day yes. What about it?" "How about Dinner? No girls?" "Ohhh uhm sure…It's a date" She smiled. She looked at her phone. "Oh goodness it's 7pm! We should go" "Right, let's go get the girls"