Unexpected Privilege | Clawen

Bubble Baths

TW// miscarriages/infertility

Author's POV

Karen then hugs her sister.

"You finally gave in! You listened to my mom lines and telling you it's worth it, which it is if you still don't believe me, it's so worth it. Now it's now, not if, or when, like we'd both say."

"Wait, when did you find out? What does Owen think? How far along are you? Do you have names? Do you actually want kids? It's worth it you know. Wait, when did you decide you wanted a kid? When you said "If not when.", was that just a distraction so you wouldn't have to tell me you actually wanted to have kids? It probably was because you're stubborn like that."

Are the types of questions Karen's mouth is spitting out faster than Claire's ears can take in.

"Woah, that's a lot you wanna know." She laughs at her sister's excitement.

"Once again, where do I even start?" Claire says as she stares off.

"I bet Owen is happy about it!" Karen says.

"I kind of, um, how do you say this, haven't told him." Claire's eyes shut as soon as she said that, fearing her sister's reaction.

"CLAIRE ELIZABETH! WHY HAVEN'T YOU TOLD HIM?" She jokingly yells at her sister.

"MAYBE BECAUSE I JUST FOUND OUT LAST NIGHT." Claire says in the same voice as her sister asked in.

"Oh, Claire. You know he's going to be ecstatic over it, right? He loves you, I know that much."
Karen says as she places her hand on Claire's upper arm.

They talk for a while more before going back.

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"Where's Claire?" Owen asks, furrowing his eyebrows.

"She decided to take a bath after the walk because she was complaining about her feet and back hurting." Karen responds

"Is anything wrong?" He looks a little concerned.

"Yeah, she's fine, it's just th-, must be the stress and we also took a long walk." She laughs, in hopes to distract him.

"Wh-" Owen stops himself before he accidentally tells Claire's sister about her outburst last night, he'd definitely be sleeping outside then.

"Oh." He quickly responds.

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Author's POV

Ring! Ring! Rinngg!

5:00am is when Claire Dearing's alarm goes off everyday. 5:00am is too early for her, for the first time ever.
She keeps hitting snooze until it's 5:30am, Claire has never hit snooze, ever.
She's still wiped out from the stress of finding out and the long walk her and Karen took yesterday, how did Claire Dearing get wiped out from a walk? A walk.
Heck, she walks around an island in 3 inch heels everyday, even runs sometimes.

It's officially 5:34am before Claire gets up and ready.

Owen gets up soon and he can't see that she's slept in. She won't allow it, no matter the reason.

As soon as she raises up and swings her feet over the bed, a wave of dizziness hits her head, causing her to close her eyes and steady herself.