Talk About A Family

"Hey John..." Sarah whispered to John in the dark. "I was thinking..."

"Mmmm." He groaned back.

"I was thinking...."

"Okay..." He grabbed up some more of the blankets. It was impossible to tell if he could even hear her.

"I was thinking about maybe...you. Me. A family." She sighed.

"Yeah. Yeah." Without opening his eyes, he gave her a kiss. At least he was able to hear her. "We..we already talked about this. Back when we first got married and all..."

"I know, but maybe something like...induced pregnancy?" Sarah curled in closer to him. She felt like she was grasping for something. Anything. "Maybe, even doing a surrogacy?"

"Adoption?" He groaned out.

Sarah shook her head without even thinking about it. She wasn't able to put her finger on why, but there was something about the idea of adoption that just didn't..activate the same feeling in her.

"Maybe."

John rolled over and looked her in the eyes. The conversation had woken him up. At least a little bit.

"I get it. I've met your mother. She always told you that your job was to have a family, right? But, you're a modern woman. You don't have to listen to a dead woman. You don't have to live for them. For society. For anyone. You can live for yourself. You don't need children to please some...some ghost."

"A modern woman." She slowly repeated. "Right."

Sarah turned on her side. In truth, she hadn't thought about her mother in a long time. Is that what John thought this was? Why couldn't he believe it was what she wanted? She frowned softly. John couldn't see it.

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