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safe because we were drunk or too ‘in the moment’.<br />

Could I believe that I had planned this?<br />

That I had meant for her to get pregnant?<br />

I didn’t believe it after her tearful performance but it was just as likely that she<br />

planned such mischief. Even, it was possible, that we both planned it secretly<br />

and we were both celebrating our evil plan while cursing dumb luck.<br />

A baby would be a joyous thing anyway. I had nephews that I loved. I had<br />

grown up babysitting for my cousins and now I was going to be bonded to<br />

another human being in the strongest possible way. Me and Elly were going to<br />

be a team, we were no longer two separate hearts, we were three and we would<br />

beat as one.<br />

I can’t remember how long she was gone or how long I stared into the abyss. I<br />

had stopped seeing the sky anyway. I was remembering my past and attempting<br />

to forecast our future. <strong>The</strong> future is so hopeful. However much shit you have<br />

had to live through there is always that bright new day which until the sun sets<br />

again holds all the possibilities imaginable and then some. I now had more<br />

structure to my future than I think I had ever had.<br />

When I snapped out of my trance I was smiling and when I realised Elly was<br />

cuddling my arm I smiled harder and wider. I rubbed her tummy, then the back

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