The 1st day of the rest of my life...

So there I was after a pretty slow day at work, relaxing! I would just like to point out that up until this very day I spent the majority of my time doing just that! I was young, free & I had nobody to look out for but number 1! I was really enjoying life & it showed! Every weekend was spent burning the candle at both ends & the days that I spent in work seemed to pale into insignificance! I was living for the weekend!

My phone suddenly burst into life, it was my other half, we had been seeing eachother for no longer than a few months & I had never been so happy! It was no surprise for me to see her name flashing on my screen as we had spent the best part of the last four months glued to one-another & it was bliss! If you would've asked me...every second spent apart at that very time was a second wasted! We had an unusually brief conversation in which we had planned to have dinner at my parents house.

She arrived, we said our hello's & headed straight for the kitchen. Looking back, I could sense a sort of awkwardness about the whole situation, something wasn't sitting right but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. My 1st thought...she's breaking up with me! Then I dismissed that as quickly as it had raised it's head, we were both enjoying this too much for that! She just stared at me & said that she needed to tell me something. LONG (AWKWARD) PAUSE! Nope, I had no clue what she was talking about! I'm a typical bloke in that way I suppose, can't take even the biggest of hints! After me staring at her blankly for what felt like the best part of an hour, she said it again but with more emphasis on the word NEED! This did nothing but acted to confuse me further! I started to think at this point that she may of had a couple of vodkas on the drive over to my house! Not good! I was just about to pull my most gormless face & without warning she hit me with both barrels!

"I'm pregnant!"

My head suddenly split in two! Impossible...or was it?! It can't be...or can it?! My mind was absolutely racing, I couldn't keep up! I leant back on the kitchen worktop & tried to digest what I had just heard! A million worries suddenly filled my 22 year old head! It wasn't like it was supposed to be, this wasn't what we had planned, this isn't how it goes in the films! I should've been jumping for joy & yet I could barely remove the gormless look from my face! I tried as best as I could to compose myself and say something, anything! The words didn't come! My mind was in overdrive & as I am sure you all know, a man cannot think and speak at the same time!

When the dust had settled from the bombshell that had just been dropped in my Mum & Dad's kitchen, I opened my mouth to speak......and my mother walked in! Talk about perfect timing! She was talking about dinner plans & the second she seen the gurn on my face, she knew, as every mother would, that her son was deep in thought. She changed her tune straight away & asked what I was up to. Ever the optimist! I just stared at her & at that very moment I could hear laughter! The two most important women in my life were stood in silence, just staring at me & it was then that I realised that the laughter was coming from me........