Rejected and Insecure

Chapter 1

"Here, you can hold him." She lifted the sleeping child out of his crib.

He put his hands out, reaching for the child softly. He didn't stop staring, she was right he was blond just like her, the baby started moving slowly, his tiny hands reaching up to rub his eyes, he flipped them open blinking tiredly. Daniel was once again lost in the blue ocean of the child's eyes, how he wished he could tell her she was right. A tear slipped from his gray eye landing on the baby's face who flinched, he didn't help the smile that crept to his lips. The child was so innocent unlike some fathers, he knew the child had nothing to do with his wife's death, he leaned his face against the child's and closed his eyes cuddling with the baby. 

That same day he checked out of the hospital with the baby returning back home, the boys were all asleep, he laid the baby in a beautiful crib. Christy had decorated the room five months back, she was so impatient to see her fifth child she was always talking about him, she had the bright idea to choose the room close to theirs so each time the baby cries she'll be right there humming to him. 

The child didn't seem comfortable. His blue eyes were glossy with tears as he cried.

"Shush Christopher," Daniel said in the hope to hush the child, but it was futile, then he recalled the lullaby Christy would sing to hush the boys. 

You're my star, my treasure from God. A gentle star, peacefully asleep, shining bright like the sun. Sleep oh little one like a star. Sleep peacefully in your dreams. I'll be there with my lullaby. Sleep, my child. Sleep a future...

By the time he was done singing the baby was asleep, he couldn't help the tears that came flowing, he sank down on the foot of the crib, running a hand through his hair. 

"Daddy?" A soft voice came from the doorway. 

Daniel quickly snapped his head in the direction of the voice, and there stood his first son who just turned eight.

"Why are you not in bed?" He asked.

"I wanted to see mummy and the baby first, where is mummy? Why are you crying?" He asked gently, hugging his stuffed bear.

"Come here, big boy." Daniel opened his arms wide, the little boy went straight to his daddy's comforting arms. 

"Mum is in heaven, In a better place." He whispered.

"Where? My teacher said if your parents say such, that means that the person is dead and they don't want us to know so we won't be hurt. Is m-mummy dead?" His little lips quivered.

"Who said that?!" He frowned, making a mental note to report to the school. Then Daniel hesitated and sigh, the boy was so smart, "yeah mummy is gone, you'll never see her. Again." He buried his face in his palms, sobbing quietly. 

"I understand daddy, please don't cry," he hugged his father, allowing his own tears to fall. 

"Good boy," Daniel mumbled, hugging his son, "thank you." 

"What's the baby's name?" 

"Christopher." 

The boy stood along with his daddy who lifted him, allowing his little legs to wrap around his waist as he stared down at the baby.

"He looks like a mummy," Daniel just nodded in response. "He didn't kill mummy, did he?" 

"No! baby no," Daniel mumbled, not taking his eyes off the sleeping child as he spoke. "He's innocent."

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