"Well, leaving that aside, Bella. Why are you even here right now?" I ignored Bella's pouty face and asked. "Shouldn't you be in your room and watching so kind of movie at the mont, while being huddled up in your bed like you usually are when I co over?"
I thought of the several tis I saw Bella wrapped up in her blanket like she were a worm with only her head sticking out when I ca over to her house.
Her mother always told her to get out and breathe in so fresh air in her free ti when she wasn't helping her mother out or spending so ti with her. But Bella always replied, saying that the air-conditioned air was much better on her lungs than the air outside, and went back to relaxing on the couch to her mother's dismay.
"That was what I was doing till now." Bella complained with an unwilling look on her face. "That is until mom called up and told that she'll be coming ho late today and that I'll have to be the one who has to buy the groceries."
"I told her that I could order soone to deliver it at our house. But she told that I needed to stretch my legs a bit more and instead sent on a mission to buy them myself."
Bella was by no ans lazy, as she helped around quite a lot in the house. But it was just that after the incident at her university, which made her leave that place and co back here, she refused to leave her house as she felt like that was the only safe haven in the world where she didn't have to be on guard all the ti.
Along with the slight trauma of the past and also because she hated being interrupted when she was watching a movie, since she was quite into them and always ca over to my house to watch sothing with my mother, she really abhorred the thought of leaving her ho. She was also fine with staying at my place, showing how safe she felt in and my mother's presence.
"And look at this long list, Daddy! These are all the things I have to buy!" Bella showed the list of things she had to buy, which was hurrily written on a paper. "I told mom that there's a little too much stuff here and that I'll never be able to carry it all back ho without a pickup truck."
"But instead of feeling pity for her poor daughter, she told that she used to carry twice the amount of supplies ho, along with hanging on her back when I was a baby, and used that into guilt-tripping into doing her deeds."
Bella complained about her mother's ntal manipulation that she was using on her own daughter, who stood no chance against it.
"By the way, Daddy-"
"No, I'm not doing it."
I firmly rejected Bella when all of a sudden she looked at with a ek look on her face, like she wanted sothing from and was about to request a favour from .
"But Daddy, I haven't even finished speaking yet...How can you say no when you don't even know what I'm about to say?"
Bella pushed my hand that I was holding up aside and jumped up in front of to ask why I was in such a hurry to push her away.
"What are you on about, Bella? Even an idiot would understand what you're asking with the look you have on your eye at the mont, like you found the scapegoat you needed to accompany you on your journey." I rolled my eyes at how obvious she was. I then looked back at her and continued saying, "You were probably going to ask to help you buy the groceries and carry them back ho...Am I not right, Miss Bella?"
Bella avoided my gaze when she was caught so blantantly.
"Umm...Well...I did have the intention of calling you out to accompany , Daddy...B-But it wasn't exactly to help myself out since I can most definitely do my chores myself."
"...It was actually for your sake and so that you can spend more ti with your adorable daughter, since I'm sure that you wouldn't want anything else in the world other than to bond with ."
Bella gave a confident smile and treated like an overprotective father who loved her daughter a little too much when she was the one with severe Daddy issues and was always seeking so kind of paternal love in her life.
"Well, this Daddy here already feels like he's had enough ti with his daughter since she spends most of her ti at his place, so I think I'm going to leave you to it and peace out."
I said and imdiately turned back to walk in the direction. I ca without saying another word to Bella, who didn't expect to reject her so viciously.
"Wait, Daddy! Wait!" Of course Bella didn't simply let leave and grabbed onto my arms to pull back. "Please! Don't go! If you leave right now, I'll have to carry all those heavy groceries myself, and my frail arms will surely break because of the load!...Y-You surely don't want to see your daughter in pain, right?!"
"Only through pain will you gain so sort of valuable experience in life, Bella." I said like a father who believed his children should forge their own futures and then continued saying, "Carrying those heavy bags will also be good for you, as they'll allow you to gain so much-needed muscle on those weak hands of yours, so I'll leave you to it and make sure that you don't drop anything on the way.."
"B-But what if I get run over by a car while walking back ho?!" Bella continued to pull with a strained look on her face, while I dragged her along the sidewalk like a bull. "You surely wouldn't want to see your daughter in the hospital right?!"
"And what's the use of being by your side at the mont?...So that I can get run over as well and share the hospital bed on your side?" I looked back and asked to Bella's disbelief at how childish I was acting. I then continued my escape from Bella's nial labour and then added saying, "I think it's better for to stay away from you at that mont as soone needs to sue the guy who ramd into you and who else is better for that job other than ."
"...Don't worry since I'll get a sizable amount from that guy and split that amount with you equally, so you rest easy in that hospital bed of yours and just wait for your share." I gave my daughter a thumbs up, telling her that it wasn't all that bad to get run over.
"Daddy, you cold-hearted bully!~"
Bella exclaid in a flurry of anger and wondered why I got half of the compensation money when she was the one who got run over.
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