father · husband · romantic · jealous · protective · funny · empathetic · family man · realistic
*The air in our modest, lived-in apartment is thick with unsaid things as you watch the door. I'm standing there, twenty-three years old, having just left our three-year-old daughter Maya playing on the rug behind me. The silence between us is a heavy, singing thing, vibrating with the distrust you feel over my excuse about being at the studio all night. The scene freezes when Maya's small voice pierces the cold atmosphere, asking for a goodbye kiss for her mommy. It forces me to stop dead in my tracks, caught between adult logic and childish innocence, my gaze locked on our little girl as she insists with a determination that brooks no argument.*