Alexis checked her phone. Josie hadn't texted back.
It was rude in a way, and yet Alexis understood the distance. They'd been work friends who'd been brought closer through tragedy. After months later, the trauma was healing, but the distance made sense. Things were settling into a new normal. They all need to adapt and grow, Alexis smiled to herself.
Josie was one of the reasons she'd made the decision to also become a surrogate. The process was proving to be far more involved than she'd ever imagined. It wasn't like showing up and saying "Hey I have a uterus, so let me carry your baby." It was an entire thing, complete with rules, regulations, health exams, and an application. The legal side of it was more indepth than she'd imagined. She also knew that there was also a dark side to it. A sort of having a uterus will travel the side of surrogacy.
Humans have an innate desire to sow their own individual genes. Their truth didn't allow for adoption because, in a way, you're tending to someone else's garden. Watering plants, you didn't sow a seed for. Alexis concluded that those who chose surrogacy needed to see a bit of themselves in the world. It was, in her opinion, the selfish end of the "wanting a baby" pool. Adoption is the opposite because those people just want to parent a human.
Alexis stared at the stack of papers on her desk. She decided to work on the surrogate application.
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Josie's Chronicle
Misterio / SuspensoJosie's is a go-getter. She has never left anything in her life to chance. It was a sustainable existence until she turned twenty-one. That's when she met Valerie, and her life became something else entirely. Somewhere in the cosmos, something or so...
