“Mom… can I go and watch that man play…” Lily asked her mom looking at the direction where the band is. Shane looked where her daughter’s looking; a band preparing their stuff for their gig in the restaurant.

“Yep… don’t go anywhere else okay…” Shane said to her daughter who is already walking away.

It was only Shane and Alice now. And Shane knew what was coming from Alice. Questions. And a lot of it. She doesn’t even know if she’s ready to answer them yet.

“So… shoot” Shane said to Alice who faking playing with her cell phone.

“What…”

“Come on… I know you have questions for me…” Shane said in a relax tone.

“What… no… I don’t… seriously… so, you have a kid… kind of a surprise but hey…” Alice said looking at Shane with lying eyes.

“so… all this time you never wondered why Lily doesn’t really look like me… why you think she might actually be biologically mine but then again not at all…” Shane simply said.

“okay yeah… maybe I want to know that part….” Alice acknowledged Shane.

Shane could only nod. That was always the first think people thought about when they see lily and Shane together.

“Well… let’s see… I’m not her birth mother… my… uhm… my uh… my ex… who had Lily is from a Latin background…so that would explain the tanned skin… the uh wavy and curls of the hair… uhm when we chose the donor… we thought of our friend who everybody thinks is my identical twin brother because we look so much alike… but we’re not related at all… so that would explain the jaw line…” Shane said looking down at her plate. She couldn’t believe that she used the word ‘ex’.

“And the smile… she definitely has your smile…” Alice looked at Shane straight in the eyes, smiling at her. It was making Shane blush.

“Shane… I don’t mind that you have a daughter… I don’t care that you make millions and millions of dollars… I just… I don’t know… like you said before… I just want to see you…” asserted Alice.

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