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Mary Lou is wearing the prettiest dress she owns. Not because that snotty man Logan Michaelson asked her to dress pretty but because it is a night out in New York city and she just wants to look good. She waits for him in her apartment while Fay and Eliza ask her about this mystery man but she gives them no details. For a second, she entertains the possibility that he could stand her up. He seems exactly like the kind of man to do that. But at exactly 8pm when he said he would show up, she hears a knock at the door. Mary Lou does not allow Fay or Eliza to open the door lest they tart a conversation with Logan. She opens it and closes it behind herself, yelling goodbyes at them and telling Logan that they can leave.“I cannot say hello to your friends,” he asks.“No, this is not a date,” Mary Lou says, turning her attention towards Logan and taking him in for the first time that night. He is wearing a suit that does not do much to hide his build. He smells like vetiver or some other e

Silence fills Eloise and Stanley’s apartment to the brim. If a needle had dropped in that moment, it would have echoed as loud as silverware. If a door had creaked at its hinges. It would have sounded like a train derailed and ran straight into their living room. Stanley was looking at Eloise, his red face and wide eyes, smoking gun of his shock. Eloise on the other hand is looking at her husband worryingly, wondering why he is having such a reaction to what she had just told him. Surely, this could not be a total shock to him. Afterall, they were married. “Okay,” Eloise says, breaking the silence as she gets up to leave. “If you’re going to just stand there and look like a deer caught in the headlights, I’ll leave and give you a moment.”“No!” Stanley protests as he leaps forward and holds her hands, keeping her still. “I’m just a little surprised is all.”“Well, you would not be so surprised if you had paid me any attention these past few weeks,” Eloise tells him, her words and ton

It has been a week since Eloise told her husband that she is pregnant and things have been going smoother than she expected. She has been able to hide the pregnancy from everyone although doing so from her friends was a bit of a chore. It was hard convincing Mary Lou, Eliza and Fay that the conversation she had with Stanley simply ended when he told her the truth about what he has been up to. However, when she revealed nothing more, they chose to take her word for it albeit with some skepticism. Every night since then, Stanley has returned home earlier and exceedingly happy. As a form of ritual, he would pick Eloise up when she opens the door and spin her around until she screams at him to put her down. Then he would drop her gently on the couch, stare longingly into her eyes and place a gentle kiss on her forehead and then her tummy.Eloise always protests and acts as though these playful but sweet acts of his annoy her but in their repetition but she enjoys it so much that she alwa

While everyone else is drinking, Eloise excuses herself and goes to the bathroom. There, she finally lets out a breath that she did not even realize that she was holding. Of course, a dinner with the Bradshaws will be a rollercoaster of emotions. Fear, joy, apprehension, relaxation; they know how to give a person an entire spectrum of feelings. Just as she turns around to leave, the door opens and Charlotte walks in, looking at her with a smirk on her face.“Hello, Charlotte,” Eloise says. Charlotte is maybe the only member of the family that Eloise has barely interacted with but Eloise has always gotten the sense that the younger woman does not like her. She has always come across to Eloise as just a younger version of Phyllis Bradshaw. “Nobody says no to a glass of champagne,” Charlotte says with arms folded, standing between Eloise and the door. “Not even when they are dying from an infection.”“Well, I happen to take my doctor’s orders very seriously.” Eloise intends to stand by

The moment that Stanley walks into his parents’ house and childhood home, he can already tell that he is about to hear something unpalatable. Maybe it is the way Mildred tells him that his parents are waiting for him in the living room or the way they are both seated in silence, looking at him as he walks into the living room.“Father, mother, what’s wrong?” he asks them.“Have a seat, son,” James says. Stanley takes a seat opposite his father. He cannot help but feel like he is on trial and his offences are about to be read to him.“From our interaction with Eloise at dinner,” Phyllis begins. “Charlotte and I have come to the conclusion that your wife is pregnant. Did you know that?”“Yes,” Stanley says, keeping his expression hard and unshaken. On his way, he thought about the possibility of this conversation happening and he has prepared himself to not express shock. “You do realize that her pregnancy is coming at a bad time for us, don’t you?” James asks.It takes most of Stanle