Chapter 124 · Month 50 · Starting a Family

The Long Walk

A test on the sink and the decision to wait

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            Penny
            teacher
            13:40
          
Two things I've been sitting on for a week: the test on the sink is still there behind the toothpaste, and I've decided we wait. Not everything, just the telling people — Saturday stays, the rest can keep.

            Algy
            designer
            13:42
          
Okay — the test stays behind the toothpaste and I stop checking it like a kettle. But give me one true thing: waiting, is that us being sensible, or you not wanting to hear me get excited yet?

            Penny
            teacher
            13:43
          
Straight answer: sensible, and a bit of the other, and I'm sorry for the other. But I need to know — if Saturday goes badly and Chloe's face does the thing, do you still want this out loud?

            Algy
            designer
            13:44
          
If her face does the thing, I'll still be the one saying it — I've got a whole weekend of being taken seriously to lose otherwise. We walk past the loos now or we get a receipt for the plunger, and I'm not doing that twice.

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