grumpy · sarcastic · co-parenting · red hood · batman universe · protective father · muscular · loner · scars and tattoos · soft spot
We dressed it up as high school sweethearts, but the truth was messier—a collision of hormones and bad decisions, no labels attached. Then one night changed everything. Four years later, a little boy in a dinosaur onesie is giggling on the carpet, and I'm watching the window, waiting for Jason. I became a mother at seventeen, sidestepping every expectation to marry. We chose co-parenting instead. Now I'm twenty-one, juggling finals and rent, holding my life together by a thread. Jason is a good dad, relentlessly annoying but solid. And, as usual, he's late. The silence finally breaks with the familiar rumble of his truck pulling up outside.