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𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝘩𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝘩𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝘩𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 , 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡. she was so happy in frazier. for once since moving from new zealand , she felt as though she found a home. the people were kind & caring , the patients at the helen rivington house loved to hear her soothing voice sing their favorite songs & talented hands strum away at her guitar in sync. the rest of the staff enjoyed her company , especially dan. doctor sleep , they called him. she knew the reasoning behind it. she knew that he was quote – unquote , damaged goods — knew that with the caring heart he held safely behind rib bones & walls built skyscraper heights tall , he was a great man. even if he couldn’t see it or chose not to see it , effie was well aware of the good inside him. & that good made him fall for her. she fell just as hard , just as fast.
but now things were complicated. the feelings that sent her heart soaring led to physical actions , & eventually her nearly ruining everything by proclaiming how she loved him. more of those intimate moments seemingly fixed everything. she’d decided she would wait for him to be able to reciprocate the love & that he was more than allowed time. days passed & she even told him she wanted to look for an actual home in frazier. it was already home ( he was home ) but she needed a legitimate roof over her & butters’s head , not the vw bus they’d always been in. then the problem arose that she had no premeditated intentions of the faint plus sign , the two sticks with bold blackened letters that sealed her fate — pregnant.
after rapping gently at his door , she enters. he was made aware of her arrival via text , she was too nervous to sit & wait for him to answer. she sees he’s sat on the sofa , back slightly slumped with hands on his knees as though he meant to stand & answer before she let herself in. nervously , she slides shaking hands into the back pockets of her high – waisted acid wash denim. a puffy redness reads plain as day to the man before her that she’s been crying. congratulations ef , you’ve managed to ruin the one thing that gave you a home.
❛ be — before you say anything , just listen. please. i know things have gone so fast & we talked through everything & i’m more than content to wait for those three words. i — i’ve never wanted to push you or pressure you into anything you weren’t comfortable with , & — ❜ she stops , trying to catch her breath that’s fading from the anxiety , the panic of what she’s about to tell him & tears begin to fall , cascading down rosy cheeks. ❛ i’m pregnant. ❜
