Use Your Sisters Instead: EP12

Nine months later.

Mary parked the car in the visitor's lot, then she and Michael walked up to the hospital. The morning was cold and her breath was cloudy. Bright yellow-red sunrise filled the sky. If this didn't feel routine already, Mary thought, well it was going to soon.

"Well I hope you're happy with yourself," Mary said. Her feet crunched on the gravel beneath them.

"Are you going to ask me this every time?" Michael asked.

"I will until you give me a straight answer."

"I'm fine, Mom," Michael said, "I'm happy. That should be enough, don't you think?"

"Father Donovan doesn't think so," Mary said, "He thinks we're all hedonists or worse. Like this whole thing wasn't his idea in the first place." "How'd he find out?"

it would be obvious after a time. All

bad," Michael said, "Really it's not. If you'd like,

you very much. Let alone grandkids. Don't worry, you'll see

*

hospital gown. Her tall, thin body, held the pregnancy well. Her stomach only stuck out slightly. She finally had the

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"Check in on my new granddaughter. You two

his oldest sister and

pretty well, all

said, "Family first. Always.

She eyed her brother suspiciously. As if seeing him for the first time. "You planned this from the

to impregnate my

sisters' policy. You knew. She made all those ridiculous requests. The whole time we argued, you sat there silent. I thought you were resigned. Embarrassed. But that wasn't it, was it? You saw what she was giving you. Where it

you say so," Michael said, "Personally, I think I was just a boy trying to make his Mother happy." He gave his oldest sister

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