Here I Go Again: A Novel by Lancaster Jen

Author:Lancaster, Jen [Lancaster, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: NAL Hardcover
Published: 2013-01-29T06:00:00+00:00

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Our meeting with Team ChaCha lasts an hour, and when we’re done, I’m less concerned with rips in the fabric of time resulting in one unholy pairing, and more concerned that Nicole talked this hateful child’s team into working with us.

“Shall we grab some lunch and discuss?” I suggest.

“Yay! I’d love to. I need to answer a few e-mails and I want to check in on Facebook real quick, but I’ll meet you by the elevator at noon.” We part and head back to our respective offices on opposite sides of the conference room.

Ah, Facebook! Yes! That’s where I need to go. I’ll look at her page and find out what’s going on with her, because clearly things aren’t like they were before. Whether or not that’s for the better is still to be determined. At no point in the past week did I consider that changing my past might drastically alter anyone else’s in any way but positive, so this is a bit daunting.

I settle into my desk in the corner office, with the entire Chicago cityscape behind me. But I’m not distracted by the view for once, because I’m on a mission. I boot up my laptop and make a mental note again to check on the tech appointment because this damn thing still isn’t running correctly. If Nicole posted any streaming videos, I can’t access them, but otherwise I should be good to go.

I decide pictures really are worth a thousand words, so I pull up her photo page first. In the previous-future, she had a million shots of holidays and playdates and birthdays and other toddler-related firsts. I was always very careful not to “like” it when she’d post a photo with a caption such as “Bobby Junior’s first bite of sweet potatoes!” showing a kid smeared with orange goo, because A) gross, and B) I saw no reason to encourage her to share more of the same. You’ve seen one toddler in the bath, you’ve seen ’em all. Plus, if she puts up kid pics, someone else will think it’s fine to put up kid pics; then everyone puts up kid pics and it’s suddenly anarchy. There should be a whole Facebook for people who don’t have children, much like there should be child-free restaurants. Ooh, or airlines! Seriously, how much would nonbreeders pay to ensure a screaming-baby-free flight? A lot, I’d imagine. I could publicize the shit out of any place that barred children and—

Ahem.

Anyway.

I still see a bunch of kid pictures on here, but it looks like they all belong to her brother, which is confirmed by her Number One Aunt T-shirt she’s sporting in this shot from the Lincoln Park Zoo. Okay, so she has no children herself, but at least she’s an aunt, right? That’s kind of the same, except your house stays clean and you don’t get hideous stretch marks.

So . . . her future is definitely different now, but am I to blame? It’s not as though I forced her to work for me, like, held her at gunpoint or anything.

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