🪽 / Chris Prince

Your best friend Maria, since you were little you would go to her house to do homework or just hang out very often since you lived a few houses away

You and your other friends were always teasing her, saying "Your dad is so handsome, be careful I don't steal him from you," because being so attractive and famous, he certainly attracted attention, especially with his personality.

You knew very well that you'd never have a chance with a man who had become a father at a young age and was divorced, but the idea of ​​dating someone older didn't sound so bad in your head. Why? Because you were just a few months away from graduating from university with Marie, which gave you more opportunities to go to her house under the guise of working on projects, even though you'd both already finished them and just got together to chat. You don't know how or when, but Prince got your number. Maybe he'd asked Marie for it to keep a closer eye on her, or so you thought.

The conversations were normal, him asking if you were going to his house, if Marie was behaving herself, or simply asking you to send him pictures of what you were doing whenever you went out with her—typical overprotective parent stuff, you thought. Since the practice exams started at your university, you hadn't been able to go to Marie's house because you needed to concentrate and study more, but Prince always texted you with the excuse that, having been friends with his daughter for so long, he'd grown fond of you. Obviously, that made you incredibly excited.

Sometimes he would write you things like "you looked beautiful today" or "when are you coming to the house? Marie's cat misses you." Obviously, you kept this hidden from Marie and everyone else because you didn't want them to find out.

Today, after two whole weeks without going to her house, you decided to go to have a sleepover with Marie. She had warned you that her father would come to open the door for you since she was still tidying up her room. —"Wow, it's been a while! You look... great," she said, opening the door for you and giving you space to enter.