Ingrid's POV
All afternoon I was in class, making my own script in my brain on how to introduce Raya to Indigo, my ex-boyfriend, and how to explain that we have a child. I don't even know what I'll say.
"Where are they now?" I asked Gracia as we walked towards the office. The faculty members have a meeting. Indigo's team isn’t there so I just can’t help but think they packed up early.
"They are in the garden," Gracia said, so I immediately looked at her.
"What?" I asked, feeling the pounding of my chest.
I always want to look formal when I'm at school but I can't stop running towards the garden because I know Raya will be there, my daughter likes plants.
I wasn’t even mistaken when I saw her holding gloves while speaking in front of the camera, where Indigo's team is staying. She's explaining about the plants that are there. The videographers were ecstatic as they watched her. Almost all of them are amazed by how talkative she is.
I also saw someone smiling while looking at Raya. They also asked my daughter some questions, which she answered confidently.
"Nay!" Raya shouted when she saw me. The smile widened immediately from her lips but I couldn't reciprocate her smile with the nervousness I'm feeling right now. She removed the gloves she was holding before she ran to hug me.
Everyone's gaze is now on mime. So are Indigo's eyes.
"I thought you still had a meeting?" Raya asked me.
"Hmm, you might be bored," I said weakly at him. I can still feel how my heart was beating so fast right now.
"That's why she's smart, her mom is a teacher."
"Ma'am Ingrid is her mother!"
"Omg! That's why she's beautiful, her mother is gorgeous too!"
Their voices didn't even become clear because my eyes remained on Indigo who was just looking at me. He also looked at Raya who was hugging me now.
"Raya, let's go home now," I said. This is me again, acting like a coward. I lifted Raya before walking away from the crowd, away from the eyes of someone watching our every move.
We were already in the car park and I was about to let Raya in when I saw Indigo approaching us. I couldn’t avoid biting my lips because of his presence.
"Indigo…" I called Indigo who was just staring at us. I saw his long stare at Raya. Raya looked at him too.
“Indigo? Isn't that my Dad?” Raya asked, looking at me. I didn’t even know what to say because I just kept looking at Indigo.
"So, he's really my father, Mom?" she asked me. It was so long before I answered her. Tears are already welling up in my eyes because I can see that Raya is already crying.
"He is," I said so my daughter frowned. Indigo was just looking at her, I saw how his tears form in his eyes.
"I told you! You look like my father, you said you weren't!" Raya said while she was crying now. I tried to stop sobbing when Raya approached him and just cried to his father. Indigo felt so weak that he just sat across from his son but I'm only sure of one thing. When he hugged her, it was as if he didn't want to take his hug away from her. I just cried quietly as I watched both of them.
"Dad, why did you leave us?" my daughter asked while crying. I never saw Raya cry this hard. She also never asked about her father but when I told her about him she was always determined to listen.
“I'm sorry…” I heard Indigo trying to wipe his child's tears.
"Don't you like me?" Raya's voice was still broken when she asked that.
"Why did you say I'm not your child?" she asked, crying even more now. Indigo simply apologized. He rarely cries so while watching him cry with my daughter now, I feel like I'm going to be destroyed. It pains me to see them crying because of my own fault.
"I'm sorry… I didn't know…" He couldn't even complete the simple word well. "I'm sorry… my princess…"
My hand was still in my mouth trying not to make any sounds.
"I see you on TV… you look happy… are you happy that we're gone?" Raya asked so my lips felt open. When we watched the news, I thought she was always busy with her toys. I didn't know that she was actually secretly watching her father.
“I'm not… I…” I could see the pain in Indigo's eyes as she tried to wipe the tears from Raya's eyes. Her tears are like a river that never stops dripping.
"Will you leave us again?" Raya asked, looking at Indigo. Indigo looked her in the eye. It is true that you can actually see how a person's world is slowly falling apart just because of his eyes. I can't even see that in Indigo's eyes right now.
"I won't… Dad is here now… I won't leave you again… not anymore… forgive me, my princess," he said trying to smile. I could see the trembling of his lips. I couldn't even stop crying when I saw how Raya's little hand wiped the tears from Indigo's eyes. Instead of it stopping, the fluid dripped from Indigo's eyes even more because of what my daughter did. Raya hugged him tightly when she calmed down slightly.