So my theory is Serena wants to get pregnant. It’s not something she knows about, it’s like a Deep and Secret Desire that even she hasn’t been allowed to know. Somewhere deep down she wants to be found out by her father. That’s why she keeps doing it without any protection. This will be some kind of revenge on Willy The Right To Life. On the other side, there’s Sigmund Freud the world-famous psychologist who would probably say that she wants to get pregnant by her father idk. He had some weird theories. But you can buy condoms in all sorts of places, which was not an option available to Freud, and Serena has plenty of money. Like neither of us needs to ask for it. We have actual bank accounts. Holly has a Post Office account with her savings in it. Serena says savings are so last century. She can’t wait to get a credit card. She keeps asking her father for one. And she has this like slight American twangy thingy idk it’s like the way her voice rises a bit into the nose. It’s hard to describe, and when you listen for it it’s not there, but you feel it. And sometimes she can do that American kitty thing, being all pouty and cutie pie. I’ve seen her playing that game with her father and he loves it. The pet daughter. I googled alpha male and it turns out the alpha males respond to that kind of thing. I don’t know about beta males or the others. History does not record. But Serena knew it from the start. She was born to it. And it makes me sick. Like Projectile Vomiting Sick.

And I look at them, her pouting at him, and I wonder what the scene will be when she says, Dad, I have some good news, there will be a new little Willy The Right in nine months time. Or seven or whatever.

It will not be pretty.