Chapter 32 · Month 18 · The Engagement

Telling the Families

Telling her parents before the date is announced

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            Penny
            teacher
            04:52
          
The chocolate's in the cupboard above the kettle, the good tin, not the decoy one — and she's already planned a 60-person menu before I've finished the word "engaged." Do we tell my parents before we announce a date, or do they hear it from Mark like everything else?

            Algy
            designer
            04:54
          
So Mum sent a four-minute voice note — four — which she played on speaker while I was still saying hello. Her verdict: "Lovely, but ask her properly and don't put the ring near a sink."

            Penny
            teacher
            04:56
          
She's not wrong about the sink, and I'd like that noted. But my dad is going to hear the date from Mark at a barbecue, and I'd rather not have that as the story.

            Algy
            designer
            04:57
          
Then we go together, Saturday, before a date exists to leak — I'll do the talking. And the ring's in the biscuit tin, so I can't lose it, or find it.

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