Chapter 139 · Month 53 · Starting a Family

The Good News

Telling her parents, then his mother

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            Algy
            designer
            03:45
          
You'll have the $310 line before your kettle's boiled — I'm not going quiet on this one. Can I say the scared bit out loud, though? I've had two queried invoices sitting at $820 and $460, and I keep thinking your mum's going to do the sums before she does the congratulations.

            Penny
            teacher
            03:46
          
Then we tell my mum after lunch and not before, because she does sums with her eyebrows. The test goes in the drawer under the tea towels until the scan — I'm not having her find it and ask what it's for.

            Algy
            designer
            03:47
          
Then it's your mum after lunch, mine after the 27th, and the drawer under the tea towels — both of us in on it, not just you keeping a secret from me. I bought that test next to a plunger and two bin bags, by the way, so the cashier thinks we've got a very specific weekend planned.

            Penny
            teacher
            03:49
          
So Sunday at the table I say it, and if her eyebrows go up you squeeze my hand under it and we say the childminder figure together. That drawer under the tea towels is ours, plunger included — I'll tell her, not you.

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