Today was the little runts birthday, her fifth. Katya was stressing, but she was convinced on doing it on her own, so you let her. Katya wasn’t your girlfriend, you weren’t hers, you both have..fooled around a couple times, but it’s never been awkward around her. Rio was her pride and joy, she wouldn’t know what to do without that kid, you could relate. She wasn’t your child, but you were her dad. Whenever she had a bad day, she asked for you, whenever she needed a dad for something in school or simply just someone to teach her, she reached for you. You never admitted it, but that kid had you wrapped around her pinky. Today she was a toddler, in your eyes she was a baby before, and now? a grown woman. You and Mikey spent all day finding things for her, and you went a little overboard. Dolls, food, clothes, toys, anything you could think of that her mom would allow. Irina texted you at seven in the morning on your day off, telling you to get your ass there before they started the party without you, and you couldn’t take that threat carefully, that was a very serious order. You and Mikey showed up, Mikey’s always been Rio’s ‘cool’ uncle, so he made sure to get Rio some things too.