“ HEATH DAKOTA THOMPSON YOU WILL LISTEN TO TIFFANY!” My beautiful Latina tells me as I start to massage my arm Tiffany cuddles the little girl and says something to her that we can’t hear. I look at Jazzy as I speak.
“ I forgave her, but I can’t forget the pain. I heard about the reason from Chris and Selena so Tiffany doesn’t have to waste her time or breathe.” I say to her as the little girl tells Tiffany she wants down
She looks at the floor as she walks to me. She gets onto the chair and climbs into my bed and looks at me with those beautiful blue eyes…she has similar eyes to my son…and she speaks in a voice so divine it’s like the heavens put a little angel in this earth.
Hi I’m Karen…do you really not want anything to do with me?” She asks as I shake my head and see shock on Tiff and Jazz’ faces before Karen continues as she hugs me,””I’m sorry that I can’t be with you as you hate me daddy, but always know that I love you with all my heart daddy .”””
Karen looks back at me and kisses my cheek as tears fall from those beautiful blue eyes as she hugs Lil Greg and tells him she is sorry that she can’t be his big sister. I’m in total shock…I have a daughter and with ….Tiffany? Karen gets down off my bed and runs out of the room crying..Jazzy looks at me as she runs after Karen. I am still in shock that I have 3 kids. Tiffany just sits in the chair not knowing what to say. Jazzy comes back in with Karen crying into my Latina lover’s chest as she tries to comfort her. Jazzy gets her to stop momentarily as she speaks to me.
“ Heath you will let Tiffany tell you her story and you WILL be there for your daughter! DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?” She tells me in a stern voice as I just nod
Tiffany tells me why she cheated and that after the return home the parents kicked Selena and Chris out..something they forgot to mention and as they were going to kick her out she spills the secret. She tells me that they got an apartment together and that she hasn’t been with anyone since that fateful night. She tells me of raising Karen and how she would tell her stories from our summers,Christmas’, and school days. How there was a picture of me in the nursery so Karen and Little Heath knew who I was.
“ Heath I don’t care if you want nothing to do with me…well I care, but you know what I mean, but please don’t punish Karen for my mistakes…all she knows of you is how caring you are and that if you were around you would love her so much..please tell me you will at least call her.” She says to me asking
I look at her face and see sincerity and I look to Jazzy as she nods, and Karen looks at me with beautiful little eyes hoping that I would love her as much as she loves me. I open my arms as Jazzy brings me my daughter. Karen practically falls into my embrace as she cries, and I speak to her for the first time.
Hi Karen I’m your daddy. I promise baby girl I will be there for you, and love you with all my heart. I tell Karen as she cries harder knowing that I love her and will be there for her
I rub her little back to calm her down and after she has calmed down I ask her what her full name is. She proudly tells me.
“ Karen Summer Thompson and I’m 4 daddy. And grammy Ellie says I have your eyes and heart.” She tells me as I smile knowing Ellie would say that, and wondering how they have been
I ask Tiffany why she named her Summer.
” Because your birthday was in summer silly and I wanted her to have a bright sunny name.” Tiffany tells me with a smile
We talk for a little more as the kids fall asleep in my arms. I look at Jazzy and speak.
“ Jasmine I didn’t know, but I can’t just abandon Karen because her mother and I made mistake…” At that moment Jasmine stops me and speaks with fire in her eyes
Heath you are to help raise this precious little girl and I’ll help. She can spend spring break and the summers with us and every other holiday. YOU WILL BE IN HER LIFE DO YOU UNDERSTAND!” She tells me as I nod smiling that she wants Karen in her and Lil Greg’s lives as well.”
After that moment the day goes by with everyone coming to see me. Momma Faye and Hannah finally show up apologizing for not seeing me sooner. I give them a smirk in which they both catch as they just giggle knowing why. Faye sees Karen’s eyes and said ‘ Heath she is your daughter isn’t she?’ I responded saying ‘ Yep and she is very protective’. Karen looked at Faye asking ‘ Who are you?’ having Jasmine respond to answer before Faye could ‘ She is my mommy sweetie’ which made Faye show tears with a smile as Karen asked ‘ Then can I call you Grammy Faye?’. That question gave Faye a big smile as she answered ‘ Yes baby girl you can’. Karen smiled hugging her new grandmother.
After them visiting Karen and Lil Greg fell asleep on either side of me which warmed my heart. After being fed by Jazzy and Diamond around 6 that evening the nurse comes in around 9 saying my guests had to leave. It was about that time the door opens and in comes Dakota and Lil Heath. My nephew comes out saying they were looking for Karen and Lil Greg. I smile telling them they have both been in here with me. Both come over getting in the chair as my first two did getting in bed with Karen, Lil Greg, and I.
The nurse says they can’t be in bed with me in which I tell her they can as three of them were mine and one was my nephew. She looks at my expression before smiling with a nod. Everyone leaves except Jasmine and Diamond as they tell Selena, and Tiffany that the kids will be in good hands. I tell my two loves to go home in which they say no as their place was here with me. I give them a smile as to say thanks as I lay there feeling very relaxed having four precious kids sleeping beside me and on me. Karen holds tight to me as she mumbles in her sleep ‘ I finally have you daddy and never letting go. I love you so much daddy’. Those words make the dam break as I cry with a big smile on my face.
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Chris’s POV: Wednesday morning two days after Heath’s drowning
It’s around 9 a.m. that I am on my laptop skyping with our parents. I tell them we are fine and things are looking some what good. I tell them that their other son has accepted Karen and Lil Heath as his own. They all are happy at those words, but my mother suspects something is not what it seems.
“ Chris hun what’s wrong as I can see it in your eyes?” My mother asks as I look at her nodding my head
“ Mom, dad you all need to get out here.” I say as they look at me in a puzzled way
“ Why what do you mean Chris?” My father asks with a hint of worry
“ Dad it’s best that you all just get out here. I can’t say over the laptop.” I answer as my mother looks at me with those worried eyes
“ Chris tell us what your hiding.” She says in a stern but yet calm voice
I sit there looking at them on the screen wishing they were here in person as the dam breaks as my tears start to flow uncontrolably.
“ HEATH NEEDS HIS FAMILY AS WE NEED HIM! PLEASE GET OUT HERE NOW!” I say loudly in which makes them all look at me with worried expressions
“ Ok baby we will please tell me what is wrong with my god son?” She asks, as verna and Kiko join in, as I shake my head
“ No mom it’s best you come out and find out as I can’t say it after seeing it.” I say which as all the parents more worried then ever before
After my father says they will catch the next flight out after getting everything settled for the quick departure we say our good byes for now. I turn the laptop off to see Selena on the edge of the bed with tears.
“ Chris I wish we never hurt him in the first place. We all three of us should have told him in the beginning.” She says to me as I get up making my way to her
“ I know darlin, but we were stupid and young. Right now it will be like a fresh start, and besides the more we show him we are being true now the sooner he may for give Tiffany and I.” I say as we hug crying on each other’s shoulders
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Calvin Delaronde says
This Heath Sr. is becoming, or probably always has been, a very self centered whiner. That’s twice he has tried to off himself and to have the nerve to tell a 4 year old child that he wants nothing to do with her is pathetic. You can sugarcoat everything with all of the bro’s and sisters and family you want but you have shown his actions to not really care nearly as much as he claims.