The Curvy Girls Baby Club by Michele Gorman

Author:Michele Gorman [Gorman, Michele]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Notting Hill Press
Published: 2015-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

Awkward didn’t even begin to describe the next two hours. In fact, Ellie would have been thrilled if it had only been awkward, instead of the verbal car crash she and Thomas were sitting through. Two long, long hours of jibes and recriminations. Now that she finally had his ear, Millicent was bending it for all she was worth. What had Ellie been thinking?

‘Well, what do you expect?’ Millicent said when Jack answered her question about why he and Suki had split up. ‘You’re twenty years older, fatter and wrinklier and she’s upgraded. You can hardly blame her.’

‘Funny to hear you say that,’ he shot back. ‘When you’ve blamed her for everything up till now.’

‘No, Jack, believe me, I’ve blamed you too. It’s just that sluts don’t change their spots.’

‘Neither do ex-wives, apparently.’

‘So who wants pudding?’ Ellie asked, desperate for the disastrous dinner to end.

‘Not me, thank you. I’m watching my waistline.’

‘Is it home-made?’ Jack asked. When Thomas said he’d baked it himself, Jack snorted. ‘You’re ridiculous, Millicent. Eating your son’s home-made pudding, once, is hardly going to make you fat. You’ve always had a great figure.’

‘Well.’ Millicent blushed. ‘Thank you. I guess I could have a tiny bit.’

‘What are you watching your figure for anyway?’ he asked. ‘Got a boyfriend or something?’

He sounded almost as if he was teasing her. Ellie stopped piling up the plates. The mood seemed to shift.

Could that be?

‘I do not.’ She sounded insulted. ‘Thomas and I are going to Sardinia in November like we always do.’

Jack looked from Thomas to Ellie. ‘Are you sure that’s a good idea? What if Ellie has the baby early?’

At least someone in Thomas’s family was sensible. Thank you, Jack!

‘There’s no reason to think Ellie will have the baby early, Dad.’

‘Thomas,’ he said, sounding unusually stern. ‘Use your head, son. How would you feel if you miss the birth of your first child? And actually, stop thinking about you. How will Ellie feel to be alone so close to her due date?’ Then his voice softened. ‘Millicent, be reasonable. Don’t you remember how nervous you were when we were pregnant with Thomas? I wouldn’t have left your side for anything in the world. And you wouldn’t have wanted me to. We were obsessed with him, remember? You made me sing to your tummy, for God’s sake. I’m surprised Thomas didn’t sing his first words.’

Now even Millicent smiled. ‘I remember.’

‘Do you remember the song? We loved that song.’

‘What was it?’ Ellie asked.

‘Handbags and Glad Rags.’ Softly, he started humming it.

And then something happened that Ellie would never have guessed in a million years.

Millicent began quietly singing.

Her voice was beautiful.

By the time she got to the chorus, Jack was singing too. And so was Thomas.

Suddenly Ellie could see the three of them, before Jack met Suki and Millicent dried up into a bitter lemon concentrate, when Thomas still had two full-time parents and none of the hurt he carried later.

‘Still got the voice, old girl.’

‘You were a bit off-key,’ she replied. But she smiled.

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