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Susan groaned as she opened the door to her apartment, the key slowly turning in the lock. That was one more thing she was going to have to get fixed, even though the moderately nice apartment belonged to her. The problem there was that she couldn't even afford the apartment, despite being highly driven by her career and climbing the corporate ladder, without a roommate at that time.
It was worth it, however, even as she slumped inside, kicking off her heels and wishing she was stepping into something else in that moment. She didn't want to be wearing shoes like that when she could have had slippers on, though separating the lines of motherhood, which she had wanted since her early twenties, ten years ago, and her career itself were going to be a challenge indeed.
After all, Susan still had hope she could hold out and find a partner soon enough, so she could experience motherhood before she was much older. Sure, she was lightly built and on the slim side, though she thought her hazel eyes were perhaps one of her best qualities. Susan usually only wore a light face of makeup, enough to be professional, for she had little else to worry about in life other than her career. Heavy make up just made her feel like she was itching all over.
Life was good, however, and she was ready for her next promotion -- which was easily in the pipeline for the next couple of months. Long overdue, of course, but she had everything going, everything running, everything the way it needed to be.
She just wished she had that one more thing that would make her life even better than it was already, expanding her world and life in the right direction.
"Susan!"
Her roommate, who she was lucky enough to get along with, grinned and waved to her from the kitchen as Susan headed on through. Kali was a different soul to Susan but, in a way, they complemented one another quite well. Her hair was cut a lot shorter than Susan's auburn locks, which were usually loose around her face, though Susan's wouldn't have personally chosen a pixie cut or green dye either.
"Hey, Kali!" She said, feeling brighter just being in Kali's presence. "What's up? You seem rather perky today."
Kali grinned, though it was a touch shakier than usual.
"Uh...well..." Suddenly, she dithered, playing for time. "This is all kind of out of the blue but... You know that guy I've been seeing?"
Susan nodded, curiosity roused.
"Yeah... Tim, was it? He was nice."
Susan hadn't, in all honesty, spent all that much time with Tim, but that didn't stop her offering an unsolicited opinion, as was the case with so many others.
"Yeah... Hm... Well, I'm pregnant!" Kali said, the words all coming out in a rush. "I didn't expect it to happen, we weren't trying... Well, I guess we must not have been as careful as I'd thought!"
"Oh! That's wonderful news! Congratulations!"
The words came from her automatically, even as something bitter settled into the pit of her stomach. Just how long had she been wanting a child? And there was Kali... Just stumbling into it all! She didn't even have her life together, drifting from job to job. And she didn't even think she'd been with Tim for all that long, considering the fact she hadn't heard all that much about him. Kali talked a lot, babbling sometimes, so surely she would know more about the guy than she did, if Kali had really been with him for a lot longer.
She hugged Kali and smiled and said all the right things, the things she was supposed to, but...that didn't make it any easier. It didn't stop the twist in the pit of her stomach, the envy that didn't belong there.
Susan hadn't wanted to resort to artificial insemination, as she wanted a two-parent relationship, but...there was no other option for her. She'd been looking for the promotion to higher clients as an attorney, but...that wasn't going to make her as happy as having a little one around would. She'd longed for the glow of pregnancy, seeing her skin brighten and her hair gleam, resting her hand oh so very delicately on the round of her stomach as she settled down for the evening, nursing her pregnant belly.
Yet Kali falling pregnant, even though Susan had no intention at all of ending her lease agreement, pushed her to make the appointment, going alone to the AI clinic, the meetings, the appointments... Everything she needed to make her dreams happen.
The promotion, of course, would come to her before they even realised she was pregnant. After that, Susan would find a way to work it out.
It happened quickly, which was something of a blessing for her. It could have been a long, drawn-out process but, fortunately, Susan found herself looking at positive pregnancy test around the nine-week mark, meaning she was already a couple of weeks along to show at all. She headed to the doctor's office, of course, to confirm it as soon as she was able to slip out of work, though, thankfully for her, the doctor's office was not all that far away.
Things were convenient and her heart soared, imagining just how pretty her baby shower was going to be, how she was going to be able to track every little stage of her pregnancy, savouring every little moment. Of course, she wanted a child too -- but, in a way, Susan almost wanted to be pregnant more than she wanted a baby.
The two things, however, went hand in hand -- and it tampered down her envy of Kali. Susan could only imagine just how Kali was going to react once she told Kali she was pregnant and smiled faintly at the idea of being the centre of attention, for once. That wasn't something that happened all that often and she inhaled briefly, parting her lips as she allowed a little tension to ease from her body.