Remember Me?

"Hows your mother?" He asked as he came close to me.
"I don't know Joel, my mother died when I was born."
"I'm talking about Mary."
"Haven't talked to her since I moved out of the house." I said. "Have you gone home?"
"No. I live in Beverly Hills."
"So you left Mary, mourning for you every year, and you were in Beverly Hills? Want a Awesome Husband award?"
"Alia... Don't be like this. I raised you."
"Like I told my real dad. No one raised me. I raised myself." "Of course.. Sorry."
"ALIA!" I pick up my head and see Stephan running to me. "What happen?" He stops and takes a deep breath. "The stage.. It collapsed." I look at Joel and ran to the venue. My dad was in there!
"Dad?!" I yelled. "Uncle Vic?! Tony?! Jaime?!" I look around and sighed in relief when they appeared. I ran up to my dad and hugged him tightly. " I'm glad you're okay." I said.
"What happened?" He asks confused.
"The stage collapsed and I thought you were setting up. I got really scared."
"Holy shit."
"Yeah... No instruments were there right?" They shake their heads.
"Just the microphones." Michelle said as she approached us. "Looks like it's outside tonight boys." They groan. My dad had his arms wrapped around me still and I was glad I was in them.
"Hey.. I'm okay.. It's alright."
"I know. I just haven't hugged you like this in a long time." I said against his chest.
"Oh.. You must be Joel right?" Jaime said and I turn my head to the side.
"That's me." He looked at me then at my dad.
"And you are?" He asked him
. "I'm Mike. I'm Alia's father."
"VIC! TONY! JAIME!" Tino yelled. "COME HERE!" The three of them took running.
Nice timing Tino.. Nice. Fucking. Timing.
"You're the father."
"That's right."
"Did it ever haunt you in leaving your three year old daughter in an orphanage?"
"How...? Are you the military dad?" Joel nods.
"I just want you to thank you for taking care of her in her teen years."
"I wasn't doing it for you."
"Wait.... Alia said you died. Why are you here? Are you like a fukig zombie or what?"
"No.. I wasn't dead, I went missing for quite some time and was pronounced dead."
"Oh.." He tightens his grip on me.
"Mike... I think we have some things to talk about."
"Like what?"
"Her." He points to me.
"She's mine, she carries my last name, you're no longer in the book." My dad simply said.
"Oh, you're so wrong."
"No.. Last time I checked, I'm right. We went to the office and made the changes. Alia is a Fuentes and always was. She's my daughter, as her biological father, she belongs to me." "We'll see about that." Joel said and left.
"He's going to do crazy things to get me back.." I said softly.

"I'm not going to let him win Baby Girl. He's not going to take you away from me."

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