The thought of Daddy's little princesses made him smile, but thinking about his own parents wiped that smile right off his face.
"You remember what happened when I told them you were pregnant with Mstt, right?"
It came with mixed emotions. They were separated at the time, so his father pretty much found out through the grapevine and then praised his son for finally knocking someone up. He was drunk that first time, but he seemed genuinely happy for them in subsequent phone calls, even if he frequently told Ben not to screw this up like usual. His mother was worse. Sometimes she acted like the doting grandma to be, offering to take Rey on shopping trips for baby clothes and things. Sometimes there were the snide jabs about Ben's inability to provide financially for his family while at the same time setting back someone else's career by leaps and bounds, She was well-versed in being both civil and abusive, and then wanting to babysit.
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"You remember what happened when I told them you were pregnant with Mstt, right?"
It came with mixed emotions. They were separated at the time, so his father pretty much found out through the grapevine and then praised his son for finally knocking someone up. He was drunk that first time, but he seemed genuinely happy for them in subsequent phone calls, even if he frequently told Ben not to screw this up like usual. His mother was worse. Sometimes she acted like the doting grandma to be, offering to take Rey on shopping trips for baby clothes and things. Sometimes there were the snide jabs about Ben's inability to provide financially for his family while at the same time setting back someone else's career by leaps and bounds, She was well-versed in being both civil and abusive, and then wanting to babysit.
"You think it would go better this time?"