The Pregnant Bride
““So what’s the big deal?” he said. “From the look on your face, anyone would think we’d been caught romping naked in the street.”
“You haven’t met my mother!” More rattled than he’d ever seen her, she flitted around the room, whisking the jeweler’s bag and box into a desk drawer, fluffing the cushions he’d disturbed, repositioning the flowers he’d sent so that the vase sat exactly in the middle of the coffee table.
“You haven’t met mine, either,” he said, “but I can promise you that when you do..., I won’t start running in ever diminishing circles and foaming at the mouth. Calm down, for Pete’s sake! She can’t be that bad.”
She was that bad and worse! Bleached, permed, thin as a rail, and doing her best to pass herself off as closer to forty than sixty, she breezed into the apartment on a wave of perfume that just about knocked him over. “Your father and I are having dinner downtown and thought we’d get you to join us. He couldn’t find parking so he’s waiting in the car,”MoreLess
“You haven’t met my mother!” More rattled than he’d ever seen her, she flitted around the room, whisking the jeweler’s bag and box into a desk drawer, fluffing the cushions he’d disturbed, repositioning the flowers he’d sent so that the vase sat exactly in the middle of the coffee table.
“You haven’t met mine, either,” he said, “but I can promise you that when you do..., I won’t start running in ever diminishing circles and foaming at the mouth. Calm down, for Pete’s sake! She can’t be that bad.”
She was that bad and worse! Bleached, permed, thin as a rail, and doing her best to pass herself off as closer to forty than sixty, she breezed into the apartment on a wave of perfume that just about knocked him over. “Your father and I are having dinner downtown and thought we’d get you to join us. He couldn’t find parking so he’s waiting in the car,”MoreLess
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