1.5- Time Flies

My little baby girl Indigo was growing up so fast. She loved every minute of the day and I loved watching her grow.

We still loved taking walks around the town and now that Indi was starting to talk I would tell her all about the town and how I came to be in this town.

Indi loved to hear stories and I would read her every night. I would tell her stories of her family back in Twinbrook, and stories from here in Lunar Lakes. But the story I never told her was that of her father. I was glad she was too young to ask about him.

Time really does fly and soon it was Indigo's birthday. This time I wasn't going to skip out on the celebration.

My little Indi looked just like I did when I was her age. I was kind of thankful that she didn't take after her father.

I'd been having a good few months of harvesting my garden so I'd been able to spring for an addition to the house.

Indi finally had a room of her own.

Indi picked out the loft bed, and loved it.

My garden was producing some pretty good fruits and vegies, but I still needed money and the bills were creeping up. So I took some of my fresh produce and transformed it into other things. Sometimes I was unlucky and wound up with a toadstool or something, but I was getting better and better at conjuring up gemstones and metals.

Indi started school that fall. She was a quiet girl, like I was, and I hoped she'd fit in.

Indi wasn't really worried about starting school, she was just excited to meet all her classmates.

It was a little weird when Indi went off to school, it was the first time in years that I was alone in the house.

 I made sure I stayed busy during the day. Either in my garden, or out at the town. Now that I didn't have Indi with me my old insecurities returned and I got a little worried about seeing her father Jarrett out in the town.

I was so proud of Indi, she loved school and always made sure she finished her homework.

We were really close, Indi and I.

On the weekends I made sure she took a break from her homework, and we went out in the town.

I loved showing Indi around the town, one of our favourite places to go was down to the old crater. I loved visiting the beach there when I was pregnant and now Indi and I loved spending our weekends there.

Indi was such a happy young girl. Watching her play around in the water made me so proud. But I was a little worried, she'd never asked me about her father and I knew it was only a matter of time. What was I going to tell her?

I decided I wasn't going to wait for Indi to ask me. But when we were swimming out in that great big old crater and I looked at her smiling, innocent face, and I just couldn't bring up the subject of the biggest mistake of my life.

Over the next few weeks I thought more about how to tell Indi about her father. But I just kept thinking that if I told Indi that I had had an affair with a married man she'd hate me.