The Two Week Wait by Lucy J Lewis

Author:Lucy J Lewis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Book Guild
Published: 2021-01-21T00:00:00+00:00

Sunday 7th February

Day 7 of TWW

FERN – Offline

“Tell me honestly, Jon. Am I looking fat?” Fern strode into the bedroom, balancing a bowl of crisps on her laptop.

“Truthfully, Fern, I can’t tell. Not when you have so many clothes on.”

“I’m only in a T-shirt and underwear,” said Fern, placing the laptop on the bed and handing the crisp bowl to Jon.

“As I said, too many clothes. Let me just take a look under your T-shirt.” Jon grabbed Fern, but she nimbly wriggled out of his grasp.

“No, not now, I’m serious. Phineas in the script department told me I was looking ‘healthy’ – and you know what that means.”

“Er, that you’re looking healthy? Oh, hold on a minute, you mean healthy, like healthy?”

“I don’t mean healthy at all, I’m just telling you what Phineas said.”

“OK. T-shirt off, side profile, let me get a proper look.” Jon sat up straight on the bed. “Are you feeling bloated?”

“I’m not taking my T-shirt off. I’ve got a budget to do by tomorrow morning. I just want to know.” Fern sat on the bed beside Jon and opened her computer.

“OK, soooo, let me see.” Jon jumped onto his knees like an overexcited spaniel and eyed up his wife. “Looking at you when you’re clearly overdressed and refusing to present yourself in the correct manner, my answer is no. You do not look fat. You look exactly the same as you looked last week. If you let me feel you, however…” Jon dared to run his hand over Fern’s solid abdomen.

“…So, no indication of me looking pregnant?”

“Ohhh, so, that’s what you’re asking, is it?” said Jon, sitting back and eyeing Fern up. “You want to know if you look pregnant, so you introduce this fictitious weirdo called Phineas, and make out he is asking very personal questions in order to avoid asking them yourself. You know, Fern… you really are a total nutcase who needs to learn to open up about your true feelings.”

“Phineas does exist.”

“Aha. In your head?”

“No, in the script department, as I said. He collects Star Wars paraphernalia and dresses up manga-style for Comic Con.”

“And asks you overly forward questions?”

“OK, OK. Fine. I just didn’t want to ask outright because…”

“Because you’re paranoid about looking like you care?”

“No.”

“What then?”

“I just don’t. I mean, I can’t, it’s just that—”

“Look, Fern,” said Jon, removing the computer from Fern’s lap. “Love of my life. This has been brewing for a while and it’s OK, I get it. I understand. You don’t need to do this.”

“But I do.”

“You don’t. You forget, I know you almost as well as you know yourself and regardless of what you think, you are the most capable person.”

“What if I’m not? What if the reason I can’t get pregnant is because I’m somehow damaged? Not fit to be a mother. It’s all instinctive you know.”

“Fern, what happened, happened years ago.”

“She was still my mother.”

“No, Sadie was your mother.”

“Sadie is my aunt… big difference!”

“But she loved you like a mother. Look…” Jon cupped Fern’s small, determined face in his large, gentle hands.

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