Challenge Accepted! by Celeste Barber

Author:Celeste Barber [Barber, Celeste]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781542006231
Published: 2019-05-21T05:00:00+00:00

I had it all sorted out: I was going to be a fun aunty and evil stepmum for the rest of time. I was never going to have kids, no sirree Bob! It’s not like I didn’t want them; I just didn’t think I’d be very good at the whole mothering thing and therefore thought not having them was the answer. I wanted to focus on my career and never damage my perfect size 14 physique. But sometimes the universe and heaps of unprotected sex with Api have different plans for you.

I was living in Bondi with my best friend Jo when I found out I was pregnant with my first son, Lou. Api and I weren’t technically together at the time; we were on a break and it was hard. I loved him so much, but our lives were so different. We had been together for seven years, and after living together for four of them, the situation with his daughters changed and he needed to be with them full-time, so he moved away to be with them. I really wanted to get my career cracking, so after three years of long distance, we broke up and it broke our hearts.

I had just got back from a month in America trying to get some shit happening with my career. I cried every day I was over there, missing Api and sad I wasn’t coming home to him.

The day before I went to America, Api and his little brother, Zac, were given bravery awards by the Governor General for saving their friend’s life after he fell from a cliff. It was such a special day. Even though Api and I weren’t together, his mum wanted me there, as I was still “family,” and didn’t I weasel my way back into that family. The day the bravery award was issued to the Robin boys, Api got me nice and pregnant.

The day I found out, I hadn’t had my period for six weeks but just put it down to my body adjusting to life in Bondi, where one must appear undernourished enough that one forgets to bleed.

Turns out that wasn’t the case.

Before the urine hit the stick there were two bright-red lines screaming: “YOU’RE PREGNANT, WOMAN!”

What?!?! WHAT!? Pregnant? But I couldn’t be. I mean, sure, every time Api and I would see each other we would cry about how much we missed each other over three bottles of wine, naked. But I’m not meant to be pregnant! Am I?? AM I?!? I walked out of the bathroom in Jo’s and my tiny, crappy apartment with carpet that smelled like cat urine, kicked open Jo’s bedroom door, and screamed at her: “I’M FUCKING PREGNANT.”

Without missing a beat she got up and started jumping up and down, singing, “We’re having a baby! We’re having a baby!”

I was happy she was stoked, because I was numb.

I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t know what to do. So, in classic Jo Cash fashion she got busy and looked after me.

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