END HER

Mattie looked up at her mother, her eyes welled up with tears. "First love?" Mattie asked in disbelief at the shocking revelation.

"You don't have to always make everything about Elizabeth." Zach let out and Mattie felt like her heart had been stabbed several times.

"I don't have to make it feel like everything is about her, yet you still recalled her name." Zach scoffed at this with his hands in his pocket.

"I have everything I can as a father, if you want to blame me for not moving on with my first love then let it be so!" with that he stormed out of their presence not looking back for once.

"Mom, is that why Dad has been so cruel to me?" Mattie asked, her voice shaking.

Tomia knelt beside Mattie and put her arms around her. "No… your dad loves you so much," she tried persuading her daughter.