I sit on the bench in front of the diner, my hands folded and pressed between my knees. Alex sits next to me and the man who claims to be my father is standing in front of me.
"Please say something Julianna."
"No one calls me that!" I snap before looking back at my feet and blushing, "Except mom when I don't do dishes..."
He chuckles, "Yeah well, she wasn't always like that."
I glare at him, "Why should I believe anything you say? You can't prove your my dad, and even if you are, you abandoned us!"
He sighs and shrugs, "I've made mistakes kiddo, I'm not proud of a lot of the things I did but I... How is your mom?"
"What do you care? You left her, twenty-five years old with a four year old baby. You left us straddled with all your gambling debts, do you realize that at four years old
