crazyimpulsive:

 

       ❝Because it’s a hard thing to forgive, Tatia.  
          Because most dead beat dads get the choice
          to be one — I come home three years later and
          it’s news to me.  I thought you knew me better than
          that, better than anyone.  I want that — I really want that.
          But I don’t think I can make up for it.  I don’t even know
          where to start.❞

       ❝I was scared, Damon. It’s because I know you so
          well that I didn’t tell you. I knew straight away that when
          I told you, you wouldn’t go to college, you would drop out and 
          stay here with us. I was so proud of you for getting in and I felt like
          I would have ruined your life in a way, taking college way from you. I feel
          guilty every day that I’ve had all this time with her and you haven’t. I wish I could
          go back and change things but I can’t. I don’t want you to go back to Chicago, I                 want you to stay here with Ava — and me, too. I promise, she doesn’t look at it
          like that. She isn’t worried about the time you’re missed, she is just happy to have             you now. Do you know what she told me every night I tucked her in for bed the first           week you spent with her? She said that she thinks you’re the best Dad, and that it           would break her heart if you left because she already loves you so much.❞