- You can't even deal with a little girl. I can't believe it! How drunk must have I been on that party to fell for your dumb jokes. And now, as I spent 10 years with...

- Good morning daddy - Melinda showed up at the kitchen.

The man raised his head looking at the child.

- Hi there!

- Will you take me to the mall, as you told me? I want a new teddy bear.

- Yeah... of course... Get dressed up and we'll go right away - the man said as smile raised on his face.

Melinda left the room. The man turned to his wife giving her victorious smile.

An hour later the man and his doughter were walking between endless racks, all filled with plushy toys.

- What abot this one? - said Michael, taking one of the toy bears from the shelf.

- No - Melinda replied after a brief look.

- This one?

- No - she wasn't even looking this time.

The man stretched his hand towards another toy animal.

- Not that one either.

- Melinda, what exactly do you...

- This one! - the girl pointed at the top of the shelf.

- Melinda... this thing costs whole...

Michael looked at his doughter.

- Alright. Fine - Michael gave up.

...

Sarah was sitting in the sofa with a glass of wine in her hand. A woman was stearing blankly at some unexistant distant point in space, as the front door  opened. Melinda rushed in dragging behind a plushy bear twice the size of her own. Her father walked in after her.

- ...? - Sarah gave questioning look to her husband.

- I told you, she'll grow over it - Michael replied smiling.

The girl ean upstairs and few moments later the door to Melinda's room has closed.