"Morning..." Li wei greeted Meilin. She'd been glued to the bed an hour after she woke up. She looked disoriented and simultaneously irate. Her hair was a wreck and the sheets of the bed was folded over her body.

Li wei already got breakfast prepared for his guest. He called her twice but she didn't respond to him. It got him thinking if what they had, the sparked that they ignited was nothing but a mistake.

"What's wrong Meilin?"

"I'm so sorry..." the tears she'd been stowing away at long last moved down the sides of her face as she lifted her garments up and ran into the restroom.

"F.u.c.k" he cussed quietly. He emptied every one of his feelings into shaping the s.e.x.u.a.l bond with her but she didn't feel a similar way.

Meilin walked passed him and headed for the front door immediately not bothering to give his breakfast a try. She wasn't forgetting anything, she only needed her phone and she called her driver to meet her under a popular bridge.

She got in the parked vehicle she called for and the man in it greeted before he pushed the start. Meilin soaked in the seats considering what she'd done with a man she thought she loved but once they finally did it, that kind of sentiments passed away. She probably didn't like him the same way he did.

When she returned home she went directly to her room to cry, crushing the furnishings and items that held her up.

Mr fu knew the family was falling apart, what he didn't know was the solution. "It's not my fault. He brought it on himself! Anyone that doesn't understand should just...F.u.c.k off" She knocked down a picture frame and she gasped as she correlated what had fallen off the desk "Shit..." she bit her lip. It was a picture she kept sacredly, a picture of her happy children and herself.

"He killed Guiren...I'm only protecting my children" she said "My children!!!" She dashed to check on them. She opened the door and saw the girls in their respective corners doing what seemed to be their homework. They didn't bother to acknowledge the presence of their mother even though they knew she was inside.

"Li Na...Li Hua" they ignored and Meilin was annoyed. She simply stormed off because she didn't want to punish them.

"Li Hua...don't bother. This isn't your fight. You were never on dad's side."

Li Hua wanted to defend herself but the guilt weighed her down. Li Na was right, it was all her fault for disclosing to her mother and her sister wasn't going to forgive her at any point in the near future for doing as such.

Another Monday, one without Haru but, late long stretches of snowy November. "Please come" The little girl prayed briefly to see her father again, pouring all her good faith on its odds occurring.

Haru spent his time staring at the building hugged by the whiteness of the snow. The lawn looked like it'd been covered with a blanket of flakes and that was where he stood.

"Li Na!?"

He dropped his bag and trudged forward, a smile on his face as the girl turned to answer. However, his smile turned to a frown and he halted "You're not Li Na" li hua shook her head.

"What are you doing here? You heard what your mom said"

"Is this what you would've said if I was Li Na?"

"well..." She was right, haru couldn't deny that.

"You're my dad...I'm sorry I didn't accept that any time sooner" Haru didn't know what to say He wasn't angry with her for reporting his whereabouts and his attempts to get closer to her mother. None of that ran through his mind when Meilin confronted him. He had no sort of grudges against a five year old, his daughter in fact. He loved her just as much as Li Na but he would've said something else to Li Na if she was the one he was staring at.

"You're right. I would've said something else because Li Na has been the one making me happy and keeping me company for the past few weeks I've spent here but I hold no grudges against you...You only wanted to protect your sister because you didn't trust me...and...I don't think you should after what your mother told you about me" Haru was about to leave when the girl ran to him.

"Please don't go." Her dad just came to kiss the shop a last farewell. He'd just found somebody that was eager to get it however for a sum lower than what he invested.

The snow alighted on Haru's face as he stayed glued to the mushy ground. Each flake swirled downwards as time passed and the wind whispered as more and more flakes fell like a confetti.

He looked up to the broken clouds then turned his attention to the crying girl. He wrapped his arms around her and smiled "Don't cry. Daddy cares about you" He kissed her forehead as she sneezed. "Good thing your mom dressed you up in warm clothes. It's quite cold" The girl nodded as she took hold of her father's hand.

"Dad!!!"

"That's my girl" He grabbed Li Na as soon as she jumped to surprise him but her gaze immediately fixed on the girl she didn't want to see.

"What's she doing here?" She hissed "What if she goes to mom again?" Her spiteful words made her sister feel bad as she locked her fingers together and her smile became weary.

"It's okay Li Na. We're family and it's good for us to settle our differences. Do it for me" Li Na wasn't into it but she had to pretend.

"Snow ball fight!!!" Haru yelled as he gathered a stockpile of snow and threw it at Li Na then ran away playfully. Li Hua giggled as they both stacked many snowballs and were ready for round one to begin.

Haru's woolen gloves picked up snow but he was hit by one and he ducked bursting into laughter "You guys are cheating. It's two against one"

"Wars aren't meant to be fair! they're meant to be won!!!" The girls threw lots of snowballs and they all burst open on impact.

Soon their hands were immobile with cold and their gloves were icy. The girls won and they concluded that the pain of de-thawning their fingers their fingers was justified, despite all the trouble.

Haru got up, one more activity popped up in his head before he'd leave his children, probably for years. He wasn't going to build a basic snowman but a snowmageddon...which he had no idea of how to make.

"Okay girls let's make a snowman" the girls nodded and they all rolled balls of snow along the blanket of white, pilling three balls on one another, placed sticks for arms, stones as buttons, haru tied his scarf around it, Li Na had a carrot. Her mom gives them vegetables everyday but li Na wasn't a fan of those but wasn't going to squander them that day. She'd use them for something great.

"Girls we're going to take a picture. stand beside the snowman and say cheese in five seconds okay "He situated the camera over a little rock and ran back to get together with them "Alright, five, four, three, two, one, CHEESE!!!" Haru grinned as the photograph popped out.

"Beautiful" he grinned "Now one more thing. Let's play hide and seek. Close your eyes and count one to ten." The girls nodded and turned around.

Haru's eyes brimmed with tears as he picked up his bag. He wasn't playing with them. It was just an excuse to leave. He left behind the photograph as a farewell gift for the pair he wouldn't see for a while.

When they were done counting and they turned around, they noticed that something was wrong.

"Dad?"

"Father!!!"

Li Na ran around looking for him.

"Li Na come here" The two girls met up to read the little note at the back of the photo their father left off.

"I'm sorry. I'll come back someday."

Li Na wasn't going to accept it. She ran around crying, looking everywhere for him but Haru was far gone. "DAD PLEASE!!! DON'T GO" they'd only known him for a short time and he left them again. He had no choice but one thing he knows is that he'd be back for them.

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