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Antisocial antenatal

This one breaks the rules and goes over 500 words but I am putting it here because I did it as a short-short- I usually write them as a "warming up to a day of writing" exercise. This one is based on a concept I thought of back in the late 90s but did not have the guts or life-experience to write it. I am glad I waited. I am not saying it is going to be perfect now but I have WAY more to offer it...(if you object to me going over 500 words then skip the first 2 paragraphs as you read)

I am too depressed to be here. All she talks about is "partners" and "support people". Seriously, can she even say anything about us? Just us not our imaginary support networks. I suppose I ought to have a support person really, if something goes wrong. But who? Hollie? We share a laugh and bitch about Centrelink but...Ryan? I barely know him really. I kinda almost miss Mum, but she would be taking over by now.

Look at those smug, self-satisfied women with their "My husband has taken six weeks off work", "My husband has taken 12 months off", "My husband has taken 100 years off work but earns so much I am filthy rich anyway". LOL, even if Tim was still around he doesn't need to take any time off...useless prick. Thank God I don't have to listen to his crap anymore. How could Julie....? But it's not worth thinking about that.

Funny thing is I don't even miss Tim, it's her I...oh we have to do this weird yoga stuff now, that's meant to help us relax is it? From what I hear no one is going to be all that relaxed when their time comes. I hope my baby is a girl, I have had just about enough of males ordering me around.

Oh that nurse is putting her hands on my stomach again, I wish she wouldn't that feels sort of uncomfortable. Oh she's stopped now. Weird I sort of feel tense and disappointed at the same time. Ha-ha I think my body-language told her to fuck off. She probably thinks....no that's an unsafe train of thought. Look at that girl over there, her stomach is bigger than her and yet she is flexible as anything. What a bitch! Oh how embarrassing she noticed me staring...probably thinks I am a racist or something and I was judging her for being black. Actually I am just jealous. How can she look that good at this stage? Seriously. I bet she is one of those smug "my husband does everything for me ones" and they all go to the pool together for aquarobics and lattes and then book hairdressing appointments together and stuff.

Not like me, the single mother in crappy Kmart clothes. The bogan I can see them thinking "giz a durry love" ha ha I should ask for that...they probably would think that I am a smoker too to go with my bogan clothes and my bogan bus catching.

Oh God the ten minute break. I hate that, they all seem to know each other so well and I am the awkward outsider. Oh crap that tiny woman with the giant stomach is coming over to me. What the hell does she want?

Oh crap she is trying to talk to me. What do I say? Awkward silence. Is my body language bad? Do I look like I want her to fuck off? Am I making her uncomfortable? Was that sentence too intense? Am I trespassing on her personal space? Oh thank God she is still talking to me...poor thing probably can't think of a polite way to back out of it now. Oh well I can fuck it up now. What? Did I just agree to go for coffee afterwards?

No love I don't have a "husband" and my boyfriend was worse than useless actually. Oh she is a single-mother too. How on earth does she look so calm and fresh and perfect? She says her Mum is back in Sri Lanka and she misses her. How on earth is she not a dysfunctional bogan like me?

Break is over, back to our places.

TBC

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