Nevaeha Smith found her dream dress, but the price was a nightmare.
Nevaeha, 14, wanted a special outfit for her eighth grade dance at Ringgold Middle School in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, but the floral ensemble that she fell in love with was $200. Her dad, Ricky Smith, works at McDonald's, Popeyes, and Circle K in order to support his family, and when he saw the price, he told her he wasn't sure, "but I can see what I can do."
Smith works at least six days a week, but took on extra shifts in order to afford the dress. Once he was able to buy it, he asked his daughter to stop by McDonald's while he was at work, and told her she had a dress, but her grandmother had purchased it, and it wasn't the one she wanted. Nevaeha was worried about how it would look, but when her dad opened the garment bag and she saw the flowers, she knew it was the one.
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Nevaeha hugged her dad and began to cry. "My heart felt like there was more love in it than there was before," she told ABC News. "I love him and I'm really happy that he's my father." The look on her face made all those extra shifts worth it, Smith said. "All I could really do was smile."
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