1 Chapter 1

I sat in my closet between all my clothes with my hands clamped over my ears. Mom and dad were fighting again. It started a few months ago and it's just constant yelling and arguing. I wish they would just stop.

"Do you even care about us?" I hear daddy yell. I can feel tears on my cheeks and grasp the necklace I have on. It's the locket they gave me for my birthday. Why can't we be happy like this? It isn't fair.

I jump hearing a door slam. It gets quiet so I crawl out from my hiding spot. I hear my door open and push open my closet door. I see daddy poke his head in. He frowns seeing me peek out from the closet.

He kneels down opening his arms. I stood up running into his arms crying. "I'm sorry you had to hear that princess." He whispers kissing my head. "I don't like when you fight." I whine clinging to his shirt.

"I don't either baby." He says standing up holding me. He walked down the hall to the kitchen and sat me down on the counter.

I watch as he walked around the kitchen. He soon handed me a cup with a lid on it a straw poking out the top. "Strawberry milk. Just how you like it." He smiles at me. I grin and drink some of it.

"Thank you daddy." I mumble as he picks me up again walking into the living room. "Lets watch some tv then get some sleep." He says sitting on the couch with me as he turns on the TV. I grin as he plays spongebob.

When I finish my milk I hand it to him and he just chuckles setting it on the coffee table. He lays across the couch so I lay down with him, my head on his belly. I giggle at the show and hear daddy chuckle too.

I soon find myself falling asleep. I wake up to angry whispering. I'm still laying on the couch and I can feel daddys tummy move as he talks. I hear mommys voice but decide not to move.

"This is ridiculous! Do you even care about your own daughter?!" Daddy whispers in a really angry voice. "No. I don't. I don't care about either of you! Which is why I want the divorce!" I hear mommy whisper back in a angry voice. My eyes water.

Mommy doesn't care about me. I start crying and daddy feels me shaking. "Hey what's wrong princess?" He asks pulling me so my head is up on his shoulder. "I had a bad dream" I cry. I didn't want him to be mad I was ease dropping.

"Hey it's okay. Why don't you go pick an outfit for the day and I'll take you to the park alright?" He gives me a goofy smile. I giggle at him and nod. I run to my room and dig into my dresser.

I grab a random shirt and a pair of jeans. Easy enough. I pull on my clothes and whine when I can't get the button through the hole on my pants. "Daddy! They won't button!" I yell down the hallway.

I hear daddys laugh as he walks down the hall to me. He helps me button them and I run back into my room grabbing the black pair of flats that I have. My uncle got them for me. I slid them onto my feet running down the hall.

"Come here monster. You need your hair brushed." Daddy says walking me back down the hall to the bathroom. I giggle as he does my hair talking in a funny voice. My hair is put into a simple ponytail and we leave.

He gets me a donut on the way to the park. Once we got there I was super excited. I ran up the steps around the jungle gym and slid down the slide. Daddy was watching me with a big smile on his face.

"Daddy! Push me on the swing! Pleaseeeee!" I call out to him. I can tell he laughs as he walks over to me picking me up to put me in the swing. There's a little boy in the swing next to me. I hear daddy talking to someone and look over my shoulder seeing a lady pushing the little boy.

I give her a big grin waving and she giggles waving back. "This is my little one Natalie." I hear daddy chuckle. "This is Tyler. He's a bit shy at first" I hear the lady reply. I look over at the little boy next to me.

I give him a cheesy grin and he gives one back. I giggle at him and he starts laughing too. "She's adorable how old is she?" I hear her ask. "She's 3. How about him?" He asks her. "He's 5. He'll be turning 6 soon." I hear her.

"Daddy can I get out now!" I say holding up my arms. He stops the swing pulling me out setting me on the ground. "Tyler come play with me!" I squeal turning to the boy in the swing. "You wanna go play with her?" His mommy asks him. He nods and I giggle clapping.

Once she sets him down he grabs my hand tugging me to the jungle gym with him. We run around playing and giggle in our own world. Daddy and his mommy were talking a bunch. Daddy looked really happy too.

When it was time to go I got really sad. "But daddy he's my new friend!" I whine pouting up at him. "I bet if you stop pouting and ask really nice, his mommy will let you guys play again sometime." He tells me.

I run over hugging Tylers mommys leg. "Pretty please! I wanna play with Niall again! Please Tylers mommy!" I squeal hugging her leg. I hear her giggling and I'm picked up. I give her a cheesy grin making her laugh again.

"Well if it's okay with your daddy why don't we all go get some food in our bellys so you 2 can hang out some more" She offers. "Daddy please! I like her!" I squeal looking at daddy. He chuckles at me but nods. "Alright you 2. Where should we go?" She asks sitting me down next to Tyler.

We share a look before both speaking. "McDonalds" We look back at each other wide eyed. "Woah.." Tyler says. "That was cool!" I giggle. We decided to walk since it's right down the road. It went Daddy, me, Tyler, Tylers mommy. I held onto daddys hand and Tyler held onto my other hand.

When we got there I took a deep breath sighing happily. "It smells so good" I giggle. Tyler nods in agreement making me smile. We all sit down and daddy orders what I usually eat for me then his food.

The rest of the night was fun. I learned Tylers mommys name, Michelle. She was really nice. Daddy paid for the food after arguing with Tylers mommy about it. She didn't want him to pay for them but he didn't listen.

After saying bye to Tyler daddy told me I could see him tomorrow if I wanted to. Of course I did he's my new best friend. I think he likes Tylers mommy too. Maybe she can be my mommy since mine doesn't like me...

I shrugged that off as I got into my PJs after a bath and laid down in bed after daddy tucked me in. It didn't take long after that too fall asleep.