Ian chuckled, taking notice of the other girl and the elated look on Katie's face as she described her wormy friend from a few minutes ago. Since everything had happened with Liz and... all of that mess that he didn't care to describe... things had been less than normal in their household in more ways than one. A lot of the time, that meant that Mummy and Daddy had been so wrapped up in trying to take care of their quickly collapsing marriage and getting back Liz's lost memories that taking Katie out to see friends had fallen on the back burner.
It was painful to think anything could put his daughter on the back burner, or that he could let anything do that (especially now that he knew how useless it all had been), but he was trying to make it up nowadays. He was doing his best to focus entirely on his daughter this off-season, that was what he had promised himself. She was effectively all he had left of Liz, and he was effectively all she had left in a real parent--they had to stick together and he had to do his best for her to make her life normal again.
To think she had a new friend was a small accomplishment to write down in the Daddy Book. It was one step at a time.
"Well, if she's half as messy as Katie is, I think they'll be good mates," he commented, leaning back to sit down in the grass. "My mum always tells me her rambunctious nature is divine payback for all the trouble I gave her as a kid."
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