Algy & Penelope

Chapter 138 · Month 53 · Starting a Family

The Misunderstanding

The first real conversation about children

Oldest line first — the newest line is at the bottom.

Penny teacher
The list's on the table with the childminder's number on it, $310 a week, and I want a do-over on how we started this. Not the conversation — the bit where I said I was fine waiting and then made it a spreadsheet.
Algy designer
That's not a do-over, that's just you being you — and the $310's less frightening written down than living in my head. What I should've said months ago: I'd rather be broke and home than paid and rehearsing the Fennick's logo in my sleep.
Penny teacher
You've gone quiet on a text, which is new, so what did you read into the spreadsheet — because I read the forty minutes you take to reply as you deciding against it.
Algy designer
I read a spreadsheet as a verdict — right, that's your cleverest, most organised mind deciding I'm the weak line. I do that sometimes: go quiet so I don't have to hear the polite version. So send me the £310 line and I'll reply in under a minute.

Whose silence about it is worse?

One vote per chapter. No account.

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What the audience made of it

Algy 0 Penelope 0 Both 0 0 votes

The next chapter opens with these numbers on the table. The character with fewer votes is expected to demand a recount.

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