Effie: Oh Sadie, I think you did such a great job on these dresses – they look just right!
Sadie: Well, they will when they’re finished – I just need a bit of co-operation! Rowan, will you stand up still and straight?
Rowan: I’m trying!
Sadie: Too bloody right you are – how can I pin the hem straight when you keep fidgeting about?
Rowan: I’m hot and tired and I’ve got backache, and you’re shoving me around.
Effie: Now come on, you two…
Sadie: Oh you’ve been so bloody childish since you’ve been pregnant – the twins behaved better than you! Please, just a couple more minutes –
Rowan: Don’t keep manhandling me – oh!
Sadie: Oh my god, darling –
Effie: Ro, what is it? Are you all right?
Rowan: Effie, I think I felt my baby moving.
Sadie: You did, darling, I felt it too!
Rowan: I think it was trying to kick Sadie…
Sadie: It was NOT!
Effie: You look all shellshocked, Ro! Don’t you think it’s a lovely feeling?
Rowan: Yes, but it’s kind of weird too…it was just here…it’s stopped though. I wish Jake had been here.
Sadie: But it will happen again, darling! He’ll probably be there next time it happens.
Effie: Will was really emotional when he first felt the twins moving – he had tears in his eyes!
Sadie: Well, if it’s enough to bring a tear to Will’s eye, goodness knows what your Jake will be like! You’d better pop in the shop and stock up on tissues on the way home.
Rowan: I want to go home and tell him, but he’s out, he’s gone to the cash and carry.
Effie: Well he won’t be long, will he? You could phone him, but it will be much nicer to tell him face to face. In the meantime…
Effie:…Sadie really needs to get your hem pinned up! She’s got a lot to do and it’s not long till her big day, is it?
Rowan: I know – I’m sorry about before, Sades – I’ll try and stand still.
Sadie: It’s all right darling. Now just come over here to the mirror –
Sadie: – and see how pretty you are going to look!
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