The family was feeling very happy. James helped Harriet and David a lot financially. He paid their mortgages and children's school fees. Harriet tried to hold off having any children sooner but got pregnant again. She felt much, much more ill this and claimed the fetus was poisoning her. Paul would lay whimpering in his crib, ignored. The family needed Dorothy's help, without it Harriet would start crying. This year Christmas was not the same. Everyone saw what the fetus was doing to Harriet and left early.
The family was getting more and more unhappy because of the child. Harriet isolated herself in her room most of the time suffering the pain the monstrous child was giving her. David stopped comforting Harriet and rarely touched her stomach like he us to do with the other kids. The baby kicked and jabbed so much inside her she portrayed him as an enemy. On the other hand, Paul always seemed to want attention but barely got any from Harriet. Her family had fallen apart; she drifted away from her children and David. The unborn fetus was doing more damage to her then anything else in the world.
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