Page 39 of Amelia's Daddy
I nod and force a smile.
She takes my hand. “We’re going to have so much fun today. I promise. Your Daddy will be back in no time, and by then, you’ll be sad that it’s time to go home.”
I let Lacey guide me into the daycare, but Sheila calls me back.
I turn around to see her holding up a bottle. It’s filled with water I think because the substance is clear. She glances at her notes. “I just noticed your Daddy left instructions for you to drink this before you’re allowed to play.”
I gasp but then laughter bubbles up inside me. Why am I not surprised. Daddy is playing me. He knows how much harder it will be for me to keep from wetting myself before he gets back if he makes me drink a bottle of water on top of the formula I had right before we came.
It will be darn near impossible to hold back my pee pee. I’ll be bouncing and gritting my teeth when he arrives. But I’ll manage because he gave me a challenge, and I will never back down from a challenge.
This is my life now. I’m so lucky that Daddy happened to come into the restaurant where I was working and find me that day. If he hadn’t, I might not have ever seen him again.
Sure, we still have both of our apartments on the mainland, for now, but I know we won’t keep them long. This is where we will spend all our time. This is where I will set up new clients and start painting murals again. I’m going to start with my own. Daddy said I could paint my nursery next weekend with the same rainbow I had in my apartment.
I shuffle over to Sheila and take the bottle from her.
She points at a chair near the check-in desk. “Sit there and drink all of it, and then I’ll let you go play, Little one.”
Lacey sighs as I sit and tip the bottle back. “Hurry up, Amelia. I want you to meet all my friends.”
The irony is that the faster I drink this water, the longer I’ll need to hold my urine. It will be excruciating, but I will endure it because I’m defiant and a masochist. When Daddy returns, hewill embarrass me more than he’s managed so far, and I will love every minute of it.