She was beginning to understand Ivy's anti-pregnancy stance. Not that it wasn't wonderful, feeling another human being growing and moving inside her, but the morning sickness and swelling ankles and enormous stomach and constant need to pee were getting old.
Oh well. One more month. She ducked into a restaurant, and stared open-mouthed for a moment at the Arch of the ceiling above her. Fucking fancy restaurant... But there was the bathroom. She ran for it.
A few minutes later she came out, shaking her hands dry, and stared up at the ceiling again, suspicion growing in the pit of her stomach. No restaurant in New York had this kind of ceiling. There was just no space.
"Toto," she whispered to her belly, "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."
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She was beginning to understand Ivy's anti-pregnancy stance. Not that it wasn't wonderful, feeling another human being growing and moving inside her, but the morning sickness and swelling ankles and enormous stomach and constant need to pee were getting old.
Oh well. One more month. She ducked into a restaurant, and stared open-mouthed for a moment at the Arch of the ceiling above her. Fucking fancy restaurant... But there was the bathroom. She ran for it.
A few minutes later she came out, shaking her hands dry, and stared up at the ceiling again, suspicion growing in the pit of her stomach. No restaurant in New York had this kind of ceiling. There was just no space.
"Toto," she whispered to her belly, "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."