Chapter 159 My Father's Crazy Obsession:>Ep4

• Okay, so now is probably a good enough time as any to tell you about Lucy. Someone who is going to play a pretty central role in things from this point on. She was our eldest child. Jo and I had met at college. We'd fallen in love pretty fast. In fact, Jo had let me fuck her on our first date; a little tidbit I never failed to remind her of. For a few years, my nickname for her was 'Slutty'. That had to stop when Lucy got a bit older and started to repeat the word. Jo always denied being a lady of easy moral virtue, simply stating that she just knew I was the 'one' and she saw no need in waiting.
• We'd been together about six months when she got pregnant with Lucy. As Bill Haslam and his wife would also discover a few years later, the pill is not a hundred percent effective. I remember when Jo told me. The nervous look on her face. It was the happiest and the most terrifying moment in my life, all wrapped up in one. I don't think we ever even talked about ending the pregnancy. We were in love and totally committed to each other. I mean sure, this was a big fucking deal; something neither of us had planned on happening quite so soon. But we would make the best of it.
• Our families were both a little horrified when we told them, but what could they do, other than slap on fake smiles and wish us all the best? I don't think her mother or father, or mine for that matter, had expected to become grandparents yet. But that's the way life is; it keeps throwing you curve balls. You just have to deal with them as best you can. We got married as soon as possible, Jo was barely even showing when she walked down the aisle, and then a few months later Lucy arrived.