Chapter 105 · Month 45 · Starting a Family

The Bad Day

The in-laws' new expectations

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            Algy
            designer
            08:52
          
There's a card from your mum on the mat with "the 27th, and we'd like a proper talk" in it, and I've read it twice hoping it'd change. I'm shattered, Pen — I don't know what she wants us to say.

            Penny
            teacher
            08:53
          
Right — I'll ring her in the morning and ask what the talk is, before it becomes a summit. And you sit down with that tea, because I'm not doing the 27th twice in one week.

            Algy
            designer
            08:55
          
You're doing it again — October's the one you sorted and I told everyone was my idea at the time. Honestly, today was worse than I said: I sat in the car outside for ten minutes before coming in.

            Penny
            teacher
            08:57
          
I don't need you to be fine, I need to know when you're not — ten minutes in a car park doesn't reach me through the door. Sit down, and I'll tell Susan we'll talk after the 27th.

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