Category : Books-Fiction

Sub Category : Drama

“Ummm… Daddy?” Leah called softly to her father.

He was sitting over the couch, looking at the television screen as if things were going to pop out of it.

Liam twisted his tongue in his mouth with the motion of the skiers down snowy path as shown in the television. He even turned his torso and arms around, as if he himself was guiding the skiers towards their goals. 

“Oh… Hey sweetie…,” he muttered, not really looking at the little girl. “Uh… D-daddy is just doing some exercises--OH GOD! NO…” he placed both his arms over his forehead, funnily drowning them to the back of his head through his hair. “How could he fall down like that? This is stupid! Did you look at that funny man, honey? See? Even grown ups are stupid these days.”

Leah frowned looking at her father, and ‘hmphed’ her face away quite adorably form him, turning toward she kitchen. ‘Grown ups are really stupid. I can see that clearly daddy,’

Liam scratched his head, smiling stupidly as he saw her daughter move toward the kitchen. He eyed her for a while, realizing that she was really going away. 

“Oh… Ah! Leah sweetie, come here! Daddy was just having some fun with you,” he kept scratching his head, smiling foolishly. Leah again looked away, shutting her eyes. “Hmph!”
………

“So… let's see what my sweet little jellybean has brought me.” Liam opened the piece of folded paper that he had taken from Leah’s tiny little hand. What was it, he thought. To see her cute little daughter dealing with folded papers nowadays. It really made him nothing but proud. ‘My sweet little girl is growing up!!”

Leah stood in front of him as he unfolded the paper, he both hands clasped behind her back as faint reddish coloring on her tiny and soft cheeks. Liam widened his eyes as he looked at the paper he held in his hand. 

“Oh… is this… School trip??”

Leah nodded readily and happily at him. “Yes! School trip! A trip with the school so a school trip!” she blushed in happiness. 

Liam read the paper up and down a few times, clearly reading each and everything that was there. He then again widened his eyes looking at where the trip was meant for. “Foreign trip? Wow…” he narrowed his eyes as he dug for even more details over the paper. “Where, sweetie? Where are you going outside of the country?”

“To Alvista!!“

Liam looked at her, narrowing his eyes. “What foreign nation is that, honey?”

Leah began stuttering, for she really did not remember the name of the country. It was Alvista, as much as she remembered. Miss Yuuto had said it was Alvista. What was it? She did not really remember what was it. She put her finger to her lips and sweated as the name of her favorite cartoon characters filled her tiny mind. 

“Uh… no… that was not it… That was not it either… No… no… no….”

Her eyes fell on her father, who was hiding behind the registration form, shaking up and down as he tried to push down his laughtes at her as she tried to remember the name of the thing. 

“Mom!” She cried, embarrassed. “Dad is again laughing at me!”

Liam burst into laughter and took to his feet, laughing hilariously as he dashed inside into the bedroom. “HAHAHA HA… I-I am sorry honey!"