#smash cache

she was a surprise, not an accident, her parents always said. it didn’t matter that daddy had another family in another part of town. she was their little gift, their little girl. they named her after the character her mother was playing on stage the night she met her father. a beautiful name for a beautiful girl. it took longer than it should have for her to meet her brothers, before she was allowed to be around them, but ever since the moment she stepped her little blonde head into their lives, she made it her mission to make them love her. she needed everyone’s approval, always, especially the men in her life. her brothers were her shining stars, but she was the apple of her father’s eye. his baby girl. the littlest walsh, blessed with the same name even though she didn’t share the same mother. she knew in order to survive in this family, she’d have to listen to her daddy. she let herself be raised in his image, be his proud little protégé. she found herself growing to be more and more like him every day, following him into the cut throat business world without falter. she’d do anything he told her to do. anything. after all, she just wanted to be loved.