ages<\/a>!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Willow hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t maintained her new haircut, and has reverted to winter polar fleece. But somehow she looks lovely anyway. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seen you since our party!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I just got back from spending a long weekend with Owen.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Winona grins. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so fantastic that you and he have gotten together.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He asked if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d move down there and live with him.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
“On his lifestyle block twenty minutes from Oumaru? With his designer pigs? Would you really be happy in the backblocks?”<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I love him, Win. I love Wellington, too, but… I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m thinking about it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Winona is so rapt she ignores her hot chocolate. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What about work?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dreadful, but since the quake, they can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get enough soil scientists in the Canterbury region. So I could find something, when I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t before.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh! This is what I texted about. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a new job. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to be an advisor at Marianne Swatch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trade board. Except…\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Her voice drops to a whisper. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pregnant.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Willow gasps. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Only two months. Of course I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t told anybody else outside family. If it…you know…continues, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be able to get established at the board, then take a short maternity leave. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the way I was hoping to do it, but…\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Would your mum help with the baby? She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s retired.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Winona snorts. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Only if I said it was a performance art piece. But! Will says he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll work from home for a few months. He’s pleased as that all those smoothies worked – he’s never been so psyched about being a dad before. I just wish the timing was better.”<\/p>\n
“I wish that Owen would consider moving. But, I could do a lot with that house down there…”<\/p>\n
Win raises her cup. “Here’s to getting what we wanted? With a catch?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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