Chapter 59 · Month 33 · Starting a Family

The Good News

A 3am night that neither of them handles well

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            Algy
            designer
            05:14
          
Kettle's on and it's 1:40 in the morning, so here's the news: we're out of milk, I bought a bathroom scale and a pregnancy test in the same shop, and the cashier didn't blink at either. I keep meaning to say the real thing and instead I've been counting the eight weeks like a man doing sums to avoid a sentence.

            Penny
            teacher
            05:16
          
A scale and a test in one basket — romantic. Which shop, and did the test have a two-pack, because one test isn't news, it's a maybe.

            Algy
            designer
            05:17
          
Two-pack, $18.99, shop on the corner by the bus stop — I checked the box twice in the car like it might change its mind. Which is what I'm frightened of, honestly: that we tell your mum off a maybe and then have to untell it.

            Penny
            teacher
            05:18
          
Then we don't tell anyone until Friday, when the second one's done and I've read it on the sink, not in the car. And Algy — put the scale in the cupboard, not facing me.

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