Pip POV
My sister acted exactly as I had expected, full of tears, happy tears. She knew how hard it had been the past three and a half years, since I started to show, and Richard found out I was pregnant. Richard tried to make me miscarry at one stage, but I shifted to that one-bedroom bungalow, and he didn't find me until I had the baby.
What I didn't expect was Skunk's mother, a loud woman, scaring my child to bits. She wouldn't be having him on her lap anytime soon. She might mean well, and it shocked me that she was like that. Skunk tried to warn me that she could get loud when excited, and I now see what he means: She was loud. Too loud. I tried to be polite and offered drinks, letting Dan play with his toys as a distraction. If he is interested, he will come back to sit with us onc
