Chapter 131 · Month 51 · Starting a Family

The Good News

The first married argument, about something small

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            Algy
            designer
            04:56
          
Right, pen — and while I'm being honest, I need to say the other thing badly: I bought a test at the corner shop, and it went in the basket with a loo brush and the wrong dog food. So that's the news, and I'm saying it at six and not eleven.

            Penny
            teacher
            04:57
          
And you said it tonight, so that's already different. Which test, and which corner shop — because I'm not doing a maybe with the receipt in a bag with a loo brush.

            Algy
            designer
            04:58
          
The one on Newark Road, $9.99, so yes it's the cheap one and I've still got the receipt. I'm scared to look at the answer, and I'm worse scared of what I'll do if it's yes — so can we look together, at half seven?

            Penny
            teacher
            05:00
          
Seven-thirty's fine, and I'll hold it. But the answer to the small argument is this: your name goes first on the deposit, mine second, and we don't touch the number again.

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