Make Time SingleDad!Grayson
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Summary: SingleDad!Grayson and his daughter, Bella, spend the day together after she says he’s spending too much time in meetings.
It was 9 am on a Saturday and I was working on editing next week's video for Ethan and I’s channel, when Bella walked into my room.
“Hi, daddy!” My adorable 2 year old daughter exclaimed, half running half waddling into my room and attempting to climb into my lap. “Hey, bub. Where’s Uncle E?” I asked. “Brebfasht.” She replied happily. Breakfast, I nodded only glancing at her for a second to help her climb up to sit with me, before looking back at the computer screen. Bella, irritated by my lack of attention for her, folded her chubby little arms and pouted in my lap. “What’s wrong bub?” I cooed to her, suppressing a smile.
“Daddy, no spend time.” She sighed pouting. “With you?” I questioned. Bella nodded in response. “Of course I did, last night we watched a movie with Uncle E before bed.” “Noo!” She pouted, placing her hand on my chest to get my full attention. “You talk with phone.” She blatantly stated. I realized she’s right, about 30 minutes into the movie I had to get up to answer calls, and when I finally got back the movie was almost over and I was still answering emails, instead of spending time with her.
“You’re right bub, I’m sorry.” I apologized pulling her into a hug. She did her best to wrap her tiny arms around me. “It okay dada.” She responded comfortingly, knowing I felt bad. “Why don't you go start breakfast, and I’ll be right behind you. Okay?” I asked, pulling away slightly. “Pomishe?” She asked, holding out her pinky finger. “Promise.” I stated locking pinkies with her, causing her to grin.
She climbed out of my lap and skipped out my bedroom. I turned back to my computer, answering a few emails, before texting Ricky, I was gonna spend the rest of the day with Bella, and that there was only a little bit of the video left to edit before heading into the kitchen.
Bella was already in her high chair, probably helped by Ethan of course. I helped Ethan set the table, while we chatted, surprisingly, quietly about the video. We sat down at the table when breakfast was ready. “So any plans for today Ethan?” I asked, smiling at him. “No, not really.” He looked at me quizzically. “What do you have in mind?” I smiled again turning to Bella to feed her some eggs, while she played with a toy. “I was thinking of taking a little girl to the waterpark, and maybe get some ice cream today.” Bella let out a tiny gasp. “Me daddy?!” She asked, her face lighting up and jumping in her chair. “Yes, you baby.” I laughed tickling her, causing her to let out little giggles.
After breakfast Ethan did the dishes, for once, while I got Bella’s bag ready to go to the waterpark. We spent the days teaching Bella how to tan. Ethan took pictures of us laying on chairs in matching sunglasses with our arms under our heads.
We spent the day with Bella in her floatie, going around the lazy river, and giggling whenever Ethan and I messed around splashing each other. We stayed there so long Bella even took a nap on the lounge chairs.
At around 4:30pm, we left the water park and Bella fell asleep in the car. I dropped Ethan at his girlfriends house around 5 and went straight to the beach.
I got to the beach not too long after and parked in a spot above the sand so we could look out over the sunset. I carefully woke Bella and brought her to the front of Ethan’s Jeep sitting her on the blanket I had put on the hood. “Clean!” She exclaimed. I smiled at her knowing how she didn’t like sitting on the dirty car. “Yeah Bubba, just for you.”
We looked out over the water the sun had started to set over to our left, not hurting her eyes. I sat next to her making sure the sun wasn’t on her face at all. “Did you have fun today baby?” I asked her, smiling as she clapped her hands when a seagull landed near us. “Yeah daddy, ten tyou.” She smiled leaning over and gave me a hug. We sat there for about 20 minutes, eating our dinner, before I moved her back to the car and we talked about the color of the sky until we got home.
That’s one of the many things I loved about Bella. Despite not being able to very well, she loved to talk about anything, and everything, with so much passion. You’d think she was a rainbow expert.
When we got home, Bella was practically asleep already. I carried her along with all of our stuff inside. As I was carrying her down the hallway to her room she sleepily lifted her head from my shoulder.“Daddy, can I sleep room?” She asked. “Of course bubba.” I responded, knowing she meant she wanted to sleep in my room.
“Daddy, have time?” She asked slowly, wanting to know if I had phone calls before I went to sleep. She started closing her eyes as the sleep started to take her over despite having 2 naps today. “Yeah, baby.” I whispered, laying her down on the bed next to me. “Daddy will always make time for you.”
