Chapter 4: Picking up the pieces

As a famous muppet once said, life is full of meetings and partings, that is the way of it. Bertie has lost the father of her child but she's always got friends to help her along the way, oh wait... no she hasn't. Oh well at least she has her baby, not that it'll bring any money to the house, and as she's pregnant a job is off the table. But she can always work on her dream of being an illustrative author. But as we know, she's not exactly a computer wizz.

As she's now on her own she needs a stable relationship and a man to bring in the cash while she's looking after the baby, so we're back to the start, she's off to the Central Park to see if she can find anyone willing to bring up her child.

When she gets there she meets a friendly fellow named Xander (oh god...) and they get off to a great start, they chat and all the stuff. But then just as it's going well she anounces her pregnancy and he backs off, he shuns her, just like Iqbal did all them days ago and for some reason she feels that she needs to go in for a hug, oh dear.

After this she decides that she should just cut her loses and see if her friend Joscota is in, wants a chat and it'll give her the chance to announce the pregnancy!

She tells her about the baby and the situation and that she's running out of the money her mother left her and then she asks Joscota if she'd like to feel the baby kicking, she accepts and gets right too it.

Berties phone then starts to ring and it's from the Sunset Valley council, they tell her that if she doesn't pay the bills soon the house will be taken off her and she'll be left homeless. After telling Jocata of the situation she does something very shocking, she puts accross the idea of her moving in with Bertie and leaving her husband and child in their current home, not a permanant thing of course, just to keep her stable. Bertie jumps to the idea (not literally, I doubt she could)

With the extra money that Joscota brings to the house Bertie rings up the local building company and they get to work building two new bedrooms for the new baby and her new best friend Jocata!

Everything seemed to be going fantastic, Joscota has a job and is bringing in more then enough to help and Berties pregnancy seems to be going good. Then Bertie goes into labour and is rushed to the hospital to give birth, everything goes great and a new baby girl is born into the Redgrave family!

The baby, which was named Grace was brought home and put into its brand new room, it slept the whole night through and Bertie did too, it's been a long and tiring day for them both, but what lies ahead? You'll just have to read the next chapter...