Daddy’s Little Valentine
“Daddy, I had a bad dream…” came a small voice from his bedroom door.
He looked up to see his little girl standing there in an oversize purple and pink My Little Pony shirt that went down to her knees, a few strands of her dark wavy shoulder length hair had come loose from her pigtails and was partially falling over her face as she held her finger up to her mouth in a sign of uncertainty. Groggily he sat up on his elbows, “Whaisit sweetheart?”
“I had a bad dream…” she repeated, slightly louder.
Consigning himself to his fatherly duties, he gave up the notion of being able to get back to sleep for the time being. “Come over here my little purple princess and climb in bed and we’ll talk about it.”
Quickly she shuffled over and hopped up on the bed, diving under the covers and snuggling up to him. He wrapped his arm around her and rubbed her back in an attempt to sooth her. “Tell daddy about it.”