The Military School (En)

The proposal

On Tuesday evening Carina and Maya, who had been on a twelve-hour shift, had gone to eat at Sam and Andrea's.

When they arrived, the couple had immediately seen that the two young women were not as cheerful as usual. They had then let them settle down, before asking them why they had these faces. However, Maya tried to make good face beside the Italian.

- "che cosa cé?" [What is it?]

-"I am infertile".

- "woww it's direct" said the Italian

- "What do you mean? Have you had any tests? Have you been to a gynecologist? Several gynecologists?" asked Sam.

-"We saw Dr. Christina Yang, she is the best in her field."

- "in addition to tiny, polycystic ovaries"

-"It doesn't prevent you from having children!" replied his brother.

- "Please let me finish, it's hard enough to say it out loud"

- "excuse me"

-"So on top of that, my fallopian tubes are damaged. They don't let many of my eggs through and the few that do are too small."

- "and what are your options?" asked Sam

-"In both cases, whether she could or could not, we wanted Carina to carry my eggs as well. We wanted her to carry an egg of mine and one of hers, with the same donor. So that the children we want, have the same genes."

- "and so you're going to take a donor how?" asked Sam

-"We used to fight because we both wanted the donor to look like the other. But now the problem is solved. I could not be the one from whom the egg is used, so the donor will be brown with brown eyes so that the color of hair and eyes will be the law of destiny."

-" And are you okay?"

-"It will be necessary" answered the Italian with difficulty.

All four of them had tears in their eyes.

-"I don't feel like a woman anymore. I didn't think that knowing I couldn't have children would make me feel this way. We are two women, we have two wombs. I know we decided that I would carry our children, but I know that really if I couldn't, I would hope that Maya would have carried them for us."

- "of course my love"

-"But to hear that. To hear that I couldn't use my own eggs, you can't imagine the shock, the pain that it caused me. Of course I would love our children, no matter whose eggs they were. But I feel like I'm being denied the right to be a woman."

- "tell her, that it's not true, she is still a woman. Not in my eyes, not in the eyes of our relatives, not in the eyes of the world."

-" Maya is right Carina, you shouldn't think that doesn't make you a woman. You are a woman. And if I understand correctly, you can carry life. So you can carry your children," Sam told her.

- "but the idea of using both of our eggs was to see a little bit of both of us in our children, and for them to really be brother and sister even if it was only through the donor."

-"I understand mia fratella, but tell you that no matter who the sperm donor is, these children will be totally yours, because it will be Maya's eggs but it will be you who will have these little beings growing inside you. While on the contrary, Maya could not have felt any link of relationship with the one that would have come from your eggs and the sperm of a donor."

-"I would never have thought that," said the blonde.

- "I know, I know you, but that's a guess, imagine it would have been someone else, her reaction might have been like that. If she had made a child with someone else for example".