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some sort of normality into my life. Yet nothing works out like you dream. Especially so in my case.
    Granddad was the first person I’d told that was actually excited. Dad hadn’t returned my calls or Grandma’s. She remarked and said, “He’s probably too busy trying to get Michelle to forgive him.”
    I didn’t understand what she meant, since last time she’d said that Dad had a habit of picking the wrong women.
    “But Dad said…”
    She shook her head. “What your dad says and what your dad does when it comes to that woman are two different things. It’s as if she has him under her spell or something.”
    That wasn’t what I needed to hear. That made me want to give up on him and I couldn`t do that. I needed him. Six months pregnant and not one parent was interested.
    “You’ve got us.” Grandpa could see the sadness on my face.
    “And us,” Trinity chimed in as she walked into the room.“And us,” Carly said as she waddled into the room and over to the sofa to practically lay down across it. I was in my comfort chair, and Grandma had started teaching me to crochet.
    “Yes, but we’re all not lucky like you,” I said to Carly. It wasn’t fair that she had support, but I shouldn’t have said it to her like that, especially when she was scared.
    “Well you’re carrying one baby and not two. Oh, oh,” she said as the words escaped her mouth. She hated the idea of being pregnant, and when she found out that she was carrying twins… let’s just say that Trinity and I managed to keep her sane for about two minutes before she had one of her moments. One of those were about to happen any moment now.
    “Two cots. Two nappies. Two baths. Two breasts….” she was imaging her future and panicking about it.
    I hoped that Grandma wouldn’t mention Mia, Noah’s sister, but I knew sooner or later she would want us to discuss the wedding invitation.
    “Did she tell you that she got a card for Mia’s wedding?” Grandma said and I sighed thinking that I had hoped it would be a lot later.
    Trinity shouted out as Grandma went to and from the kitchen getting us snacks and drinks.
    “She did mention it.”
    I wished I could cross my arms properly and crochet and forget that I was there, let alone part of the conversation.
    “I’m due in July.”
    Grandma nodded, “And the wedding is in September. That’s plenty of time.”
    I shook my head. She was talking as if it was something that I wanted to go to.
    “Which sounds like plenty of time to me,” Grandma appeared again, and looked at Carly for a minute as she said, “Two shoes, two packs of wipes, two baby chairs…”
    She shook her head and then Grandpa said, “Oh no, dear, you forgot two babysitters.”
    Carly nodded her head in agreement and added that to her imaginary list. Grandma gave him an air hit as if to say that he should leave her alone. It was above Carly’s head as she continued to count and look up in the air, thinking about all the things that she had missed.
    “Besides, babies never come on time. You have a four week window. So, it may come in June.”
    I corrected her and said, “Well it may come in August.”
    Trinity stood up and said, “Okay, can we agree. If it’s June or July then you go. Any later, then you stay.”
    It was a deal that I wasn’t willing to take, but as Carly shouted, “Yes, I have two of everything!”
    I looked at her and thought about all the support she was getting and the fact that maybe, just maybe, Noah would give me a second chance, and I gave in. “Okay then.”
    Grandma said, “Good, because I already RSVPd and said you would go with your dad.”
    I shook my head; a minute ago she’d thought that he would forgive Michelle again.
    “But you said that he was too busy playing happy families with Michelle.”
    My head was spinning out of control. The whole idea of seeing Noah again made me feel both happy and sick at the same time.
    “Yes, but that was before I sent the RSVP and then saw an