02-15-2022, 05:59 AM
[[CW: Abortion mention.]]
Immediately, guilt washed over her. How embarrassing was it to have to live with the entire course of her life changing because Alice thought standing up would work?
What was worse: the more she thought about it, the more she was convinced. Her life was better than Alice’s. Her life could get snuffed out any one of these given nights, but at least it was her life. The money was better, too. Hers.
She crouched beside Alice, head turned away from her but voice conspiratorially low.
“Or,” she ventured, letting a couple pass before continuing on, “if the prophylactic faild, I could have skipped town for a few months, said I was serving, left them to a better life than ours at a church and come on back.”
Which was a lot more involved than swallowing some ‘famous female pills’, but … she didn’t want Alice to know she’d do something like that.
Immediately, guilt washed over her. How embarrassing was it to have to live with the entire course of her life changing because Alice thought standing up would work?
What was worse: the more she thought about it, the more she was convinced. Her life was better than Alice’s. Her life could get snuffed out any one of these given nights, but at least it was her life. The money was better, too. Hers.
She crouched beside Alice, head turned away from her but voice conspiratorially low.
“Or,” she ventured, letting a couple pass before continuing on, “if the prophylactic faild, I could have skipped town for a few months, said I was serving, left them to a better life than ours at a church and come on back.”
Which was a lot more involved than swallowing some ‘famous female pills’, but … she didn’t want Alice to know she’d do something like that.
