It's been a while since I've been here, but after seeing a certain trailer, this idea wouldn't leave my mind. So, here it is guys! Hope you like it, I don't own it, and please review and give me feedback!
I'm pretty sure it all started when she walked into my room and said, "well, all the paperwork cleared and I think I'm going to do it." Or maybe it started before that, a long time before. Maybe around the time we both started Queens University.
With a new addition on its way, our family couldn't possibly afford to pay two separate room and board fees. After several serious arguments and plenty of nagging, bribing, pleading…etc, Casey and I found ourselves on the front porch of a small and almost entirely student occupied apartment building, we sighed shrugged our shoulders and fought our way into the smallest apartment I'd ever seen. Nothing between us was the same after that.
The next four years went by rather quickly, like most adults tell you college years have a way of doing. And despite what I had thought on my first day living alone with Casey, we both survived college and grew quite close. Actually, it was more like Casey had become my best friend, my other, better side.
Naturally Casey graduated in the top percentile of her class and landed a job straight out of college. She rose up the ranks quickly and soon became the leader of her own small but successful law firm. One would think that this difficult and time-consuming career would put a hold on her plans to start a family, but you see, Casey was if nothing more, a serious planner.
She had this list, her 'Life Goals' list. Once her own law firm became successful, she had basically completed all her goals, except the last; 'Get married and have kids.' Preferably two. Maybe three.
Unfortunately for her list, Casey had no boyfriend and after trying nearly everything, (including several dating websites, ew) no prospect of a new boyfriend either. And for a while it seemed like she would drop this goal, or hold off until she had found 'The One' (She had a separate list for him…one I wasn't allowed to see)
And then that fateful day occurred, when she explained to me what cleared paperwork she was talking about, and suddenly my illusion that she would wait before completing her final goal vanished. Especially when she ended her explanation with, "I love my life, but I'll never be complete or truly happy until I've had a child. I was meant to be a mother Derek." And that hopeful, expectant and sincere look on her face said it all.
After telling me her plans she drove to London straight away to tell the rest of the family. Though somewhat confused and upset at first, the family accepted that Casey's dream of being a mother trumped her dream of being happily married first. Besides, we all knew from our own family life that marriage wasn't always for the best or for forever.
And that's how I found myself at a party celebrating Casey's upcoming insemination.
Zachary, the sperm donor, was there and he was, well, he was perfect. Went to U of Toronto for his undergrad in medicine and then moved to Maryland to receive his PhD at John Hopkins. Highly successful neurosurgeon, perfect teeth, complexion, blonde hair, blue eyes.
By the end of the party, after the constant listing of everything that was perfect about the jerk (hardworking, intelligent, determined, rich, handsome…) and after every woman in the house was practically drooling over him, I was miserable, and fairly drunk. And by fairly I mean completely shit-faced.
The next morning passed rather painfully due to my intense hangover and inability to remember anything from the night before.
A month later, Casey declared that we needed to talk. As we sat across from each other at the kitchen table I knew something big was about to happen. Within the next three weeks, all of Casey's things were packed and ready to join her in New York where she was taking over her father's law firm and branching out her current practice. I was left alone in what was once our apartment with enough money from Casey to cover her part of the rent for the rest of the year until I found a new housemate. I moved out the next month…it was strange living alone in a place that you once shared with your best friend. It was empty.
So you might recognize this, it's based on the trailer for a new movie coming out called The Switch. Man, I'm like advertising for a movie I haven't even seen yet! Haha, anyway, the idea was interesting so I adapted it and this is how I think the story would progress, note that I started writin before the movie actually came out so it will probably be slightly different.
Anyway! Please review! I need encouragement since I'm a bit rusty. Thanks for reading, more will be up soon!
