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love, rosie 269While it was thoughtful of him to inform me of their presence (and tosend Katie over to Toby’s house while we discussed it), I stood in the hall inshock for quite a while. I just thought of the fact that Katie would haveanother set of grandparents, yet even more people in her life she had nevermet before. And then I became angry by that fact. And even more angry bythe fact that all these years I knew who they were, they knew well who Iwas, they had passed me in the street on numerous occasions while I waspregnant, then again when Katie had been born, had heard the rumors thatshe was Brian’s child yet never bothered to make any sort of contact or givehelp of any kind. The last I had heard of them was that they had sold up andhad moved to the sun to help heal Mrs. Whine’s arthritis.After the anger had passed I quickly became embarrassed by the fact Ihad just screamed the house down at their son about my right to drink all Ilike on a Saturday night and dance the streets naked, while they sat in thevery next room in silence listening to my every word. I could imagine themRuby, sitting there with their noses turned up with disgust at the unemployedyoung single mother who had their son’s baby without anybody’sconsent and drank to get drunk on the weekends. (Imagine!)All these emotions and thoughts ran through me in a matter of secondswhile Brian watched me digest the information. I slowly put my bags down(making loud clinking noises) and I entered the living room. I introducedmyself in my best sober voice and shook their hands politely, thanked themfor coming back to meet Katie and me but apologized that I couldn’t staybecause I had made plans for the evening already and pretended as thoughthey hadn’t already overheard what exactly they were. Well I couldn’texactly sit down and have a serious conversation with them could I? Myhead was spinning and every time I spoke, my voice sounded like it was comingfrom the other side of the room. So I made my excuses and left. Ofcourse I had absolutely nowhere to go so I just wandered the streets for agesand pondered my life. After a while I decided I hated it and everyone in it (Iknow, I know—again), and seeing as Katie was away safe for the night andBrian the Whine had company I made my way to the nearest pub anddrowned my sorrows.The bar was really awful actually, in retrospect I wouldn’t go in there if I