The three friends settled down in the kitchen to have dinner, and Jan recapped this afternoon’s events:

“I mean, I’m not clairvoyant. He never told me how he felt about it! And now I’m the bad guy although he…

“Darling, no one expects you to be able to read minds. This was his wrong-doing. He screwed it up.”

Jan nodded: “I just don’t know what came over me. I guess we… I just saw her standing there and- how am I able to compete with her! She’s so much younger than me and…”

“Pregnant.”, Komei interrupted.

“Yes.”

“Never knew you wanted children?”

“I don’t. Me as a mother! That would be a tremendously bad idea, not to mention that that ship has sailed a long time ago.”

“Way too much information, Jan!”

“I guess what Komei and I are trying to tell you”, Andrea chirped with a sharp look towards Komei,  “is that it isn’t your fault that this played out the way it did. It is okay for you to decide that you don’t want to marry, it is okay for you to decide you don’t want kids. Leo should have told you what he wanted in life and you may have been able to come up with a compromise. But he didn’t, so…”

“Not my fault. Right. Time to focus on the campaign.”

With a smirk, Andrea turned to Komei yet again: “Say, did you take a dip in the pool while Jan and I were preparing dinner or did you just decide that you like running around half naked?”