What a Kiss Can Do by Kathy Johncox

Author:Kathy Johncox [Johncox, Kathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781495265433
Published: 2014-09-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Strange Happenings

Later that night I wrote the email and sat there for an hour looking at it.

Hi, Fergie. Hope Australia is all you dreamed it would be. Here, spring is on the way. Is it summer there? I forget which season is which and where.

It’s pretty expensive to call down under and I thought about it, but instead thought I’d tell you my news via email. I guess there’s no clever or easy way to tell you this, so I’ll just out with it. I’m pregnant. You’re going to be a father. The baby is due in November. I’ll give you a minute to absorb this.

This is why I wasn’t so excited when you announced your good fortune and went on about how we could travel the world together, just you and me.

I’m sorry to be telling you now this way, but I just couldn’t tell anyone for a long time. Only recently have I been able to say those words. For a planner like me, someone who likes to act, not react, I’ve been doing a lot of reacting lately. I wish you were here so we could talk about this and I could see your face.

We’ll talk when you get home but in the meantime, I thought you should know. I miss you. Love, Rita

Reading it over and over again had helped me delete some of my snide Rita remarks and sarcastic asides, because my gut was saying not to go there. Humor doesn’t solve everything, Rita, my gut was saying, you need to be careful with this. This is not all about you, Rita. I proofed it several times and actually, I wanted to wait until morning to proof it once more, but it wasn’t going to say anything different and I kept hearing Derek’s plea. It was ten o’clock in the evening my time, and God knows what time it was there. I clicked send.

I had time to make the coffee for the next morning, let a teabag steep for three minutes, turn out the kitchen light, turn the furnace down and start up the stairs before my cell phone rang.

I don’t know what planet I was living on, but I hadn’t anticipated anger. In fact, I’d never experienced Fergie angry. I’d never considered we wouldn’t share this experience. As far I was concerned, we were bonded now.

“What were you thinking?” was not what I expected. There was a coldness in his voice that frightened me

“What was I thinking? Oh, and it’s good to hear your voice, too.” I felt hot and clammy at the same time. I sat down on the top step.

“You’re pregnant? You said you were using something. And you knew this when I told you my news and you didn’t tell me? And what man wants to get an email saying he is going to be a father? I’ll tell you I thought you were joking. Or maybe it was a typo, maybe that I was going to be farther is what you meant.

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