It was probably late into the day, around the ti when the sun would set in an hour or so, and I was roaming around town.
Both my mother and Camila decided to visit a flower viewing ceremony nearby for a girls day out, so I had no choice but to get out of the house to pass the ti until they ca back.
Paradis, that is, the town that I was staying in this world, was just like every old rural town that used to be a village. The comrcial district, where all the business and entertainnt stores were located inside of the town, while the residential district was set aside by the agricultural fields on the outside.
This was what the town people actually preferred, as they got to live in peace without the hustle and bustle of the busy town waking them up. Of course the comrcial district that had all the sa facilities as a modern-day town was in walking distance from the residential area where most of the town folk lived, so I can't really say that they were really separated and were actually conveniently close.
I tried spending the ti I had today by doing sothing at ho like reading a book or watching a movie, like every other kid would do on their sumr vacation. But it seems like I had beco so used to family life from always having so sort of company around , whether it was my mother or my next-door neighbour, that I couldn't help but feel restless with no one at ho.
That was why I decided to take a breather and go for a walk until both of them ca back from their little outing.
I actually did try to call out Bella and ask if she wanted to go out on a walk with . But when I checked her house, I found that it was locked.
While I was walking through town and thinking about where Bella went since she usually stayed at ho all day and holed up in her room, watching TV shows and feasting on treats her mother regularly brought her, living the ideal lazy holiday life, I suddenly heard Bella's chirpy voice.
I thought that I was hearing things at first, since Bella barely left her house since all her friends in this place were still out of town, so there was really no need for her to go out. But to my shock, I really did find Bella standing in front of .
Raven black hair that ran all the way to her waist, pretty blue eyes that sparkled like diamond dust, and finally a face that could be said to be an exact copy of her gorgeous mother's with a hint of innocence in between her eyebrows.
The beautiful girl I saw who was standing near a bus stop was most definitely Bella.
I thought that Bella had thrown another fit with her mother and decided to go back to her university like she always threatened to do in the past, which Camila inford of.
But she didn't have any luggage with her, nor was she in a grumpy mood, like she was running away from ho. Rather, she was holding onto the hands of a grandma who looked quite old and was looking around the place with an anxious look on her face.
It almost seed like she was trying to help out the old lady, but she herself didn't know what to do and was looking for soone to help her out.
But I still wasn't clear of what was going on and decided to ask Bella, who was glancing at the grandma next to her and the roads around her with obvious concern in her eyes.
Before I could get close enough to call out Bella, Bella herself spotted , which made her eyes glimr and prance in her steps like a little puppy. But because of the excitation and relief she felt when she saw like I was her saviour, she ended up calling out to in the one way I told her not to do so in public.
"Daddy! You're here!"
Bella's perky chest bounced up and down, and she couldn't help but jump in her place when she saw . There was no falsehood in that greeting of hers, as it really did seem like she was genuinely elated to see in the flesh.
But as happy as she was at the mont to see the person that had quickly beco one of her most favourite people in the world, she saw the grandma on her side turn to look at who she had just called her father and realised that she had blurted out sothing that she wasn't supposed to say.
"Oh my~ That handso man is your father, dear?~"
The sweet-looking grandma who had looked up and down couldn't help but feel surprised when she saw in the place of her father, as she wasn't expecting soone who looked so young to be Bella's parent. The old granny looked at Bella to give her an answer, but Bella froze up when she saw her expectant gaze, and she didn't know what to say, as she couldn't bear to lie to such an innocent old lady.
"Ah, I know that's surprising to hear, ma'am, since I look quite young and probably even as young as my daughter, Bella. But and her beautiful mother got married when we were quite young."
"I also have been following my wife's skincare routine for a while now, so it's only natural that you would find it strange to find a young-looking father."
I spouted a bunch of lies to the granny in Bella's place when I saw her cornered, while at the sa ti I quickly went over to her side and put my hand over her shoulder to show how close our relationship was. I then pulled Bella closer into my embrace, which made her ears turn a shade of red, and continued saying to the granny with a harmless smile on my face,
"Even now, I'm sure you're probably thinking that we look more like a couple than a father-daughter pair since she looks nothing like ...But I assure you that she really is my daughter who decided to look like an exact copy of her mother from birth and decided to inherit nothing from her poor father's side."
"Oh, you don't have to explain anything to , young man~" The granny who had a little bag by her side, giggled and waved her hands with a gentle look in her eyes. "Although I admit that I was surprised at first when I saw such a young lad co forth in the place of this little girl's father, it only makes sense that such a charming and disciplined man like you would give birth to a sweet girl like your daughter, who was trying her very best to help out."
Bella had an embarrassed look on her face when she heard others referring to as her father. She also bowed her head down in sha, since she couldn't bear to et the honest gaze of the granny she was tricking.
"Oh, so my daughter was helping you out, ma'am?" I asked as I leaned forward, so that the old lady before , who looked like she was from out of town, could hear better. I then chuckled and continued saying, "I thought for sure that she was troubling you on the side of the road and was coming over to scold her for disturbing others."
"Far from it, young man!" The granny said like she would start fighting with even if I uttered a single harsh word to Bella. She then looked at Bella with a tender gaze like she were her own granddaughter and slowly said, "Not only did your daughter co forward to help out when she saw that I didn't know which way I had to go to reach my friend's house."
"She even stayed by my side when she realised that she also didn't know about the destination I was trying to reach and went out of her way to ask everyone who passed by if they knew of the place I wanted to go."
"...So rather than scolding your daughter for misbehaving, I think you should be praising her for being such a good girl who wouldn't let go of an old lady like no matter how much I insisted that she didn't need to stay with , since that would be the sa as wasting her precious ti and was persistent on helping find my way ho."
The old granny praised Bella with all her heart and looked like she was even willing to sign a part of her inheritance to Bella because of how much she adored her.
Bella's face turned even more red when she heard the sincere praise, and she couldn't help but hide behind to save herself from the embarrassnt, when she usually liked to boast about every deed she did.
I smiled at this sight, as it was just like I had predicted on the day I had t Bella.
Even though she acted like a spoilt princess in front of her mother and treated her badly in the past because of her father's horrible influence on her.
She still treated everyone else with respect and kindness out of the goodness of her heart. She was genuinely a good person at the end of the day, which was confird with the way she went out of her way to help soone unrelated today when she could've just walked past by the old lady like everyone else would've done.
When Bella saw looking at her with a teasing smile on my face when she peaked out from behind , her eyebrows trembled in a fluster, and she quickly burrowed back behind with a steamy look on her face, unable to handle the awkwardness and embarrassnt of soone close to her seeing a side of her that she never usually showed...
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