PAULA GORDON, STAR Writer

Nervous but anxious was how David Bernard and Michelle Moodyseemed when they visited THE STAR office recently to find out the results of the second DNA test in the Paternity Puzzle feature.

David, a construction worker, and Michelle, a practical nurse, had been featured in the competition after David would not back down on his belief that he was the father of Michelle's six-year-old daughter even though she told him that the child was fathered by another man.

The two were together for four months when Michelle got pregnant, however, Michelle had said that she did not tell David that the child was his.

She told THE STAR that David has been obsessed with her ever since she broke up with him and that he was the worst mistake she ever made in her entire life. He, however, said that the relationship had dissolved because she was not honest and he found out that she was seeing another man while she was seeing him. During a prior interview with THE STAR they both launched verbal assaults on each other. At that time, Michelle said that she wouldn't call what she had with David a relationship but rather 'pure sexual'.

"Him nuh understand that I have moved on with my life so till I have two more children. David will just pop up at my gate. It was just a fling and the fling just got out of hand, that's all," she said.

On Sunday, the two got the closure they had been searching for on the matter that was even brought before the Family Court.

Before the result of the test was handed out both had brief comments on the matter.

He said: "I don't really feel anyway enu I just wanna do it and get it over with. I still feel like the child is 100 per cent mine but if it say she is not mine mi affi jus leave her cause is her child."

She said: "Mi nuh want him be the father but if him a di father we have to come to some agreement."

The anxiety grew worse as the envelope was opened. A copy of the result was subsequently handed to each party.

David's hands were shaking as he inspected the paper from top to bottom but Michelle who took less than a minute to find the result started jumping for joy before he could even find it.

"Yes, yes, mi tell yuh," she expressed.

By this time sorrow had already taken over David's face.

The result declared that David was excluded as the biological father of the child. "The probability of paternity is zero per cent," the report stated.

David tried hard to hold back the tears as the result was being explained.

Interestingly, Michelle tried to console him saying, "Sorry Dave, hush, yuh see children can look like people but are not theirs. Mi know yuh feel a way, mi nah go lie but mi did tell yuh."

"I feel a way yes but I cannot help it," was all he managed to utter.

An excited Michelle then turned to David and said, "Question, the stuff dem whey yuh buy gi har yuh ago want them back?"

To this David replied 'no'.

Michelle later told David that she will allow him to see the child if he wants to because she already calls him daddy.

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