Carolyn looked at the test in her hands and she sighed. She didn't want to bring a child into this relationship but she couldn't bring herself to abort it. She normally wouldn't have a problem with abortion but she felt so alone in this marriage and she knew Gordon was already cheating when he was on business trips. They had only been married about a year. She sighed again looking at the test before binning it. She looked down at her slim figure and ran a hand over her stomach. She couldn't be far with it because there was no sign of it yet. Her, she thought, a little girl to put in dresses, or a little boy to play with toy planes and dinosaurs. She smiled. A little boy she decided, smiling.
It was a week before she told Gordon. It was just before he was to go for a trip.
"Gordon, I have something to tell you" she was sat next to him. Gordon sighed.
"Well?" He said uninterested.
"I'm pregnant." she said confidently.
"Oh.. ok then, how long have you known? And it's definitely mine, right?" He asked, almost bored.
"Of course it's yours!" She cried.
"Well that's good then." he looked at his watch. "Best be off, see you tomorrow Carolyn." he gave her a tiny peck on the cheek and she rolled her eyes which went unnoticed by her uncaring husband.
Eight months later Carolyn was lying in a hospital bed holding a newborn, a boy just like she had wanted. Gordon managed to arrive to meet his son between business trips.
"Arthur Richard Shappy" she said proudly.
"He is my son; Arthur Richard Gordon Shappy." he said matter of factly. Carolyn's smile went down a bit but she couldn't complain he was his son too.
Carolyn's family came to visit baby Arthur soon after. Her mum gave him a plushy polar bear that was almost as big as the newborn but he seemed to love it. Her sister Ruth with her husband Philip and their ten year old son, Richard, gave them a baby book.