Chapter 2
That night ended up lasting two months. It was great having someone the same age as me in the house all we talked about was what France was like before the war, I wasn't tense about it now and we had started sleeping in the same bed, with mother's permission of course. I had not been called back to fight yet so I got a job back on the farm where I had worked before I left. The farmer was glad to see me back and I did not get much work done the first day as he had been talking to me for most of the day. Six months after I had arrived back and had been married to Danielle I went home one evening to hear screams and shouts of surprise coming from inside the house, when I opened the door Danielle ran up to me and gave me a hug that was as strong as her cousins. When I asked what was going on she said that she would tell me over dinner. Dinner came and went and I forgot to ask her what had been up when I came home from work, eventually as we were sitting in front of the fire that evening she suddenly stood up and said to me, " you have been awfully quite and don't you want to know the good news?" I'm guessing I didn't give much of an expression because mother, Molly and Danielle were all looking at me with the strangest expressions on their faces. But I do have to admit I wasn't really listening and was a bit spaced out, I came out of my little wonderland and asked "I thought you were going to tell me over dinner but you never did." They must have thought I was the most stupid person ever as I suddenly realised that they had been waiting for me to ask. "Please tell me what was up when I came home from work?" I asked in the special voice I only used for special occasions or when I was alone with Danielle which was always a special occasion for me. "Well I went to see the doctor this morning because I hadn't been feeling very well and guess what he told me?" she replied with the biggest smile on her face I had ever seen. I was amazed when I saw everyone looking at me intently; even Big Joe and Little Tommo knew what was going on when I didn't. "I don't know, tell me?" I asked, I was now getting impatient and curious about what was going on that everyone but I knew about. "Tommo don't you understand?" I knew this was a rhetorical question so I let her carry on "Tommo, you can be stupid sometimes, I'M PREGNANT!" she screamed at me and those two words were just music to my ears I had always wanted children and as soon as I met Danielle I knew I wanted them with her. I must have been sat there processing this information for a while because I suddenly heard Danielle crying and saying that she had always thought I didn't want it and running out of the room and I then had Molly slap me around the face which must have brought me to my senses and I said "where has Danielle gone?" Molly looked at me as if I was stupid and replied "she just ran off to try and get rid of the baby because she thought you didn't want it." At those words I got up ran to the door and went straight out to look for her. I must have been looking over an hour before I just sat down and cried, I don't know how long it took for the rain to come but I didn't notice it, I was so numb all over, I had just lost the love of my life and my first child, she would never forgive me for the way I acted if she came back to the house, but even that had a slim chance of happening since she probably didn't want me anymore. I was cold, wet, numb in more ways than one and the saddest I had ever been. This even beat when Charlie died. So eventually I got up from where I sat and trudged home, ready to endure all the shouting I was going to get from Molly and mother when I got back and said I couldn't find her. But I didn't expect what I found when I got home…