Sean and I have lived in apartments the entirety of our marriage. We’ve thought about buying a home before, but the time has never been right. It’s starting to look like a good idea these days, though.
Last night I dreamed that we went to look at a house together. It was waterfront property on marshy land, such that there were boardwalks to get from the street and driveway to the door. The house was huge, and there were at least half a dozen real estate workers there to show it to people. I was wondering the whole time why we were there, because there was no way I wanted a house that size.
The house was three stories tall. I really only remember the top floor, which had the bedrooms, a kitchen, and a courtyard-like area, but we toured all the floors and they were all gigantic. Around the time we finished looking at the third floor, the head real estate agent cornered us.
“I hear you’re pregnant!” he accused me. “Are you just having fun, touring houses for for exercise?”
“Um,” I said, and suddenly Cheryl and Reid were there, overhearing.
“I hear you felt it kick!” Reid said to Sean, who nodded awkwardly.
“Yes, no, that’s our child there,” I said, pointing to a brown-haired two-year-old someone was carrying.
“I know that can’t be true; you can’t have had the child that fast!” the real estate agent said.
“Okay, fine,” I sighed. “The truth is, we just started trying.” I glanced over at Cheryl and Reid, knowing that this was news to them and that now they’d get their hopes up. “And we’re seriously looking for a house to buy.”
“Oh. All right then,” the real estate agent said, and backed off.
Sean pulled Reid aside then. “Actually,” he said in a low, unhappy voice, “Luigi told me that it could never, ever happen for me.” (Apparently in dream-canon he had a fertility doctor named Luigi.)
I started crying in the dream, and woke up snuffling a little, although not actually crying in real life.
Weird that in the dream, Sean was the one with infertility.