160 Smoothing Things Out

Truthfully, Malachi could fully understand why Ali was upset. 

Bianca was the first girl to show interest in him after his break up with Melanie, but she was the last girl that he started dating. 

It wasn't intentional, as he was always attracted to her from the jump, but things just always seemed to get in the way of their progressing relationship. 

He could only imagine the pain he must have caused her, and the guilt he felt from treating her feelings so casually was more than a little agonizing. 

"I'll admit, it really took me longer than I'm proud to admit to make things official with Bianca. But it was never because I didn't care about her or the things she did for me."

"Then what was it?" Ali asked gruffly. 

Honestly Mal didn't believe her father would care about his answer either way, but he knew that he was still obligated to try. 

But... there was really only so much that he could say.