"Are you pregnant, miss?" Lindsey, bright but alway trouble, asked from the back row.
Cecilia Thompson, a teacher in her second year at St Kylie's School for Girls, had dreaded this moment. She had known one of her pupils would be the first to notice.
'Macbeth: Act 3', she announced, unconvincingly. 'Alison, please explain to us the role played by Banquo's ghost.'
Cecilia had been avoiding the staffroom for weeks, and wearing a winter coat for Assembly. It would now be only a matter of time before the Headmistress, Devina Bradshaw, summoned Cecilia to her office and demanded to know the date of the wedding.
St Kylie's was a very strict school.
It felt so unfair. Cecilia had only slept with three men in her life; unfortunately, she had slept with them all on the same weekend. And again on the next.
How could she have got herself into this terrible mess? Jonathan...
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