It all comes down to luck: though she is unaware of the fact Miss Cheerilee has 'been pregnant' 5 times where the luckless egg, though inseminated, failed to implant: but worse she has been fully aware she WAS in fact pregnant, and then, on the eve of when they had planed to tell Big Mac's family that they were about to have a new sister-in-law last winter, gone into the hospital in terrible pain: and been informed that she was having an early first trimester miscarriage.
EVERYPONY in the whole town had tried to get her to name the father but she knew she couldn't do that: by the Apple Family's antiquated traditions the mare had to be actually pregnant at the time of the wedding, and if she was engaged and had miscarried before the wedding took place the groom was supposed to disown her and call the wedding off. Never mind that over a thousand years of history bore out the theory that about 1/2 of all mares would miscarry their first pregnancy, but have no troubles thereafter, 'the warning shot' some medical texts called it, Big Mac would either have to disown his family and be disowned by them to stand with her, or disown her to stay with his family, and either way the choice would tear him apart. Miss Cheerilee couldn't do that too him, so eventually she made up a bogus story about a one night stand at a teachers conference during Hearth's Warming vacation, a black stallion with a golden mane and missing his tail and a pair of aces for his cutie mark, claimed he was a mathematics professor at Manehatan Community College that had gotten into higher math from coming up with algorithms to count cards at blackjack and made it his career after being arrested by the Las Pegasus PD when he was involved in and blamed for a train wreck and blackballed from every casino in town...
After that rumor circulated the furor died down: but Miss Cheerilee was uncomfortable about having both gained and lost friends over a lie, as well as having viciously slandered a nice but shy widowed Tenured Professor from the Baltimare School of Engineering and Design she had met at the conference and had a few friendly conversations with, but nothing more, not to mention that half the town now thought she was a slut and stallions, some of them married, would hit on her on an almost daily basis...
But, as you might be expecting from the title of this thread, though misfortune has stalked Miss Cheerilee and Big Macintosh's reproductive attempts thus far, sometimes you roll a 20, and tonight was one of those times. Though neither of them knew it yet Miss Cheerilee was on the last day where she was fertile, and in two more weeks she would miss her period: two months after that they would give the happy news to his Grandmother and Sisters that the clan was expanding again, then be wedded less than a week later... AFTER that would be when things would start going wrong, but that was all months away, and for tonight, there was only the stars, a fine bottle of Billy Cart-Salmon Reserve Champagne, and a few dozen tarts and pastries Big Mac had cooked fresh this afternoon...
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