"Oh hi Kat. Shouldn't you be doing revision?"Katherine pursed her lips and sniffed. "I've got something to tell you," she admitted, her hands shaking....She felt the insides of her cheeks heat up and inhaled sharply.Joseph turned to look at his daughter anxiously waiting in the doorway and raised his eyebrows. "What is it?"Katherine sighed and licked her lips. "I'm pregnant," she said quietly and her mother shrieked."What?" Joseph asked.Katherine cocked her head to one side and repeated herself,. “You can stay and watch if you must but you must promise to stay right there. I think there are other guys in the room now and they MUST NOT know you are here or I will be in big trouble. When I think the coast is clear I will let you slip out quietly but you must tell NOBODY. I repeat NOBODY!”Chloe nodded her head in total understanding and agreement. Stephen then began to soap himself up again to a very happy and a very wide eyed girl. “Oh well, Chloe” Stephen whispered “You might as well get. ”“Six o’clock? In the morning? On a Saturday?” Cinnamon was looking at me like her new boss had just grown horns. I thought she was making a little much of it since she was usually in the office by eight-thirty. “I kind of have a date Friday night.”“Yeah, I assumed so,” I said. “I do, too. I thought we could come home together after the game and whatever, and you could just stay overnight. That way, you won’t have to worry about not being able to get up in the morning. And neither will I.” The. I need somewhere to stop for a few minutes, and wondered if I could drink my coffee here?" Oh, of course. Make yourself at home." Here, have the coffee." And she handed one of the steaming cups to me, stepped back and hoisted herself on the desk opposite mine. Popping the lid from her coffee, she spun back to face me, took a gulp of hot liquid, and continued her inexorable one-sided conversation."Laurice. That's my name." Laurice?" Yep. But no one here calls me that. They all call me Milo.".