“Your present will be delivered on Saturday afternoon between 3 and 4pm. Be a good girl and make sure you are home.”Time seemed to drag from then ...n. Saturday afternoon seemed as far away as ever. Her Miss had been unusually quiet, citing a conference paper she had to present. Abby imagined Fiona working in her office, overlooking the sea. She knew she lived somewhere in the countryside, not far from whatever city the university was in, but not much more than that. She had looked at a map of. Everyone was happy to find out that she was still potty trained when they took all the tubes out of her down there. I guess that is so deeply hardwired that she couldn’t forget it,” I said. “That was all she knew for sure. You heard her nursery rhyme modifications as she goes through learning things from preschool, I just wish she had a preschooler’s clean vocabulary”“You’re telling me,” one of the girls said. “She obviously remembers you being a friend with benefits.”No way they are they going. She giggled, and complied. I took a deep breath, then delivered my well-rehearsed speech. I let Lorelei know exactly what I thought of her. I told her that I had seen her with professor Adam Shane, and I knew of the affair they carried on behind my back. Then, I told her that I was dumping her. That’s right. I dumped my girlfriend on her birth over the phone. In front of all her friends. Am I good or what? The shocked gasp I heard at the other end was the most satisfying sound I’d ever heard in. My sister was due to give birth within the fortnight, I was to aid her in any small manner I could, her husband having left with the King. My sister Gwen had been married only a short time and was feeling home sick and lonely. It was very hard to be shut up for the duration of pregnancy cut off from most of what you used to know and do, or so my mother informed me. Now I too was to be shut up with her to await the event. I wasn't looking forward to it at all.I'd always been a bit of a rebellion.