[ WP ] A 10 year old girl shows up at your doorstep claiming she is your daughter . You are a virgin ...

“ Hello, ” I said as I opened the door. 
 
 A little girl stared back at me. She had to be around ten years old. In her hands were some official looking documents, which I thought was a bit odd. What was odder was how familiar she looked. It was as if she was one of my nieces. Her pigtails were the same black color as mine, her eyes the same shade of blue, and even her nose looked just like mine. 
 
 “ Hi, ” she said. “ I ’ m your daughter. ” 
 
 “ Yeah, okay, ” I laughed. “ What do you really want? ” 
 
 She handed me the documents and I started to look through them. Inside was a whole bunch of things that I didn ’ t understand. One of the documents was a DNA test. It clearly showed that I was her father. Which, the last time I recalled, would be impossible seeing as though I am a virgin. 
 
 I looked back at the girl and saw a lady in suit running up to the door. 
 
 “ Allie, what do you think you ’ re doing. Don ’ t run away again like that, ” the suited lady said. She looked at the documents in my hands. “ I ’ m sorry sir. I should have been the one to hand you those. I ’ m with Child Protection Services and we have recently found evidence that this girl here, Allie, is your daughter. Her mother has just passed away and you are listed as the guardian and father. ” 
 
 “ Wait, ” I stammered. “ I want to see some kind of identification that you are whom you say you are. ” 
 
 She agreed to schedule a meeting with me in a few hours while I contacted a lawyer to verify her claims. I was very surprised to learn from my lawyer friend that this was legitimate. I opened the door once again, a few hours later, as the CPS worker and Allie entered my house to explain everything. 
 
 “ Sir, ” she began. “ I know that you are only 26 and this must be a big shock for you. According to Allie ’ s mother ’ s will and last testament, you were unaware of the fact that you had a child. ” 
 
 “ Slightly, ” I chided. “ It would be a little hard to have a child when you ’ re still a virgin. ” 
 
 “ Well, sir, I feel that you should read the letter from her mother to you. I think it will explain everything. In the meantime, I will leave Allie with you unless you would like to refuse being her guardian. You can also take some time to think about it. ” 
 
 “ Well, seeing as though she ’ s my kid, of course she ’ s going to stay here. I very much want her, I ’ m just pissed that I didn ’ t know I had her in the first place. ” 
 
 “ Very good, sir. We have a few things that you need to sign and that we need to go over, and then you and Allie can get to know each other. We ’ ll be in touch afterwards, and if you need any help with the parenting, we have classes and support staff that would be glad to be of service. ” 
 
 When the CPS person left, I stood in the doorway with Allie. She seemed pretty content, especially for having just lost her mother. 
 
 “ You want to get something to eat? ” I asked her, not really sure of what else I could say. 
 
 “ Okay, daddy, ” she said with a large smile. She was a lot more comfortable around me than I was around her. According to the CPS person, her mother had always shown her pictures and told her stories about me. Why she wouldn ’ t have told me that I had her in the first place, I still didn ’ t understand. 
 
 Instead of trying to cook for her, I decided we should just go out to eat. Like all little children, she wanted to go to a fast food restaurant. 
 
 “ So, it must be hard to have lost your mom, huh? ” I asked as we ate. 
 
 “ Yeah, but now I got daddy, so it ’ s okay, ” she said cheerfully. 
 
 “ You know, I recently lost my sister, so I know what it ’ s like to lose someone you really care about. You can tell me more if you want too, anytime. ” 
 
 “ Well, I miss mommy. She would have known that I want chicken fingers and not a burger. ” 
 
 I felt a twinge of guilt as she said it; I should have asked her what she wanted. It was going to take awhile to get used to actually being a father. 
 
 We had a lot of fun spending time with each other for the rest of the night. Eventually she started to fall asleep, so I put her to bed in my bed while I slept at the floor of the bed. That was another thing I ’ d have to do; buy a bed for her. I remembered the letter from her mom and opened it. When I read it, tears streamed down my face, and I understood everything. 
 
 A little less than six years had passed and it was Allie ’ s sweet sixteenth. We definitely had some rough patches when we originally met each other, but nowadays she was the best thing that had ever happened to me. She is the best daughter a dad could have hoped for. 
 
 It was early in the morning as I climbed out of bed, trying not to disturb my wife ( yes, I ’ m no longer a virgin ), and made my way to Allie ’ s bedroom. To my surprise, when I knocked on her door and entered, she was already awake. 
 
 Allie was sitting on her bed with an old tear stained letter. She was crying her eyes out, adding a few more tears to it. I started to cry as well; I ’ d kept that letter from her for all these years, but now she ’ d found it she couldn ’ t escape the truth. 
 
 “ You may be wondering how it ’ s possible that she is your daughter, ” Allie began reading the letter. “ I ’ m really sorry. What I did was wrong. I… I… was too ashamed to let you know, or to let anyone else know. That ’ s why I cut off contact with everyone. I couldn ’ t get rid of her, my precious baby that I loved so much. ” 
 
 Allie had to stop to blow her nose, but then continued on. “ It was that night, when you were fifteen and came home really drunk from a party. I was coming home rather drunk from a party of my own. You were practically passed out and never knew what was going on. Afterwards, I laid there with the largest load of guilt you could ever have imagined for doing that to my… my… brother. Just know that I really loved you and I really loved Allie. I know what she is the product of, but that makes her no less beautiful than anyone else. The blame for that lies solely on my shoulders. I pray that you will love her as I have. For the last time, your undeserving older sister. ” 
 
 I sat on the bed and we cried together. I had hidden her from my family for all these years, just like my sister had, so that she wouldn ’ t find out. But, I guess, you can ’ t hide the truth forever. 
 
 “ You realize, ” I said through a heavy amount of sobs. “ You realize that I love you, regardless of how you were made. I just wanted to shelter you from this, so that you might have good memories of your mother, and not these tainted ones. ” 
 
 “ Why, ” she cried. “ Why?! ” 
 
 I held her tighter and prayed that she would come out of this alright. It was some intense news to deal with. I didn ’ t think I ’ d be a good father when she showed up on my doorstep, but now I knew as I held her and cried with her that there was nothing else in the world worth being. 
 

