Will and Effie’s friends don’t think they are getting enough of a chance to babysit, so they have been persuaded to go shopping for the afternoon, leaving Niamh and Tom with the twins.
Tom: I like this daytime babysitting, it’s loads more fun when the twins are awake.
Niamh: You just like playing with their toys! There – I’ve e-mailed those photos to Imogen.
Tom: What, the ones we took when we met them? I thought you did that ages ago.
Niamh: It took me a long time to sort them out, I wanted to find some where you didn’t cut poor Barney’s head off!
Tom: I thought that camera was supposed to be dead easy to use…
Niamh: When the salesman said it was a point-and-shoot camera, he did mean you still have to look through the viewfinder! Anyway – while I’m on here, I want to show you something. I found a college course I want to do. Here –
Tom: Air cabin crew…you want to be a trolley dolly? Since when?
Niamh: Well I thought about it a while ago, but Mum wasn’t exactly supportive, and I didn’t really know how to go about it. I didn’t know you could do a course.
Tom: I guess you’d be away a lot, when you get a job…
Niamh: Would you mind very much?
Tom: I’d miss you! But I’d like to see you doing something you really want to do. And you’d have a uniform – do you think you’d get to wear it home…?
Niamh: Honestly, Tom! I haven’t even got on the course yet, let alone actually getting a job! Tom – I wanted to talk to you, about us…
Tom: Oh…
Niamh: Don’t sound so worried, it’s nothing bad! It’s just – you know I love you to bits, and I know you love me. I just worry – you’re older than me, and when I see you with Daisy and Jessica, you’re so good with them…and I wonder if you’re ready to settle down? Because – I want to get married and have kids one day, I know I do – but I don’t feel ready yet. I feel too young.
Tom: Hey Niamh, the twins are great fun, and yes I’d like kids too. But not yet! I don’t feel ready either. You know Rowan’s always saying I’m immature, and I suppose she’s right in some ways. There are plenty of days when I still feel like a teenager –
Tom: – so it’s just as well I went out and got myself one!
Niamh: What a shame, Tom, that you feel so young, when your jokes are so old…
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