She looked at him with an expression like 'do you really want to know?' then wet her lips. "She, um... She made a joke about having to, um. you know -: She pulled back her hand gently, looking down at her sandwich while spoke. A part of her told her just to say Maria said nothing and then another part of her wouldn't stop answering the question, "Having to correct that by having a better boy inside of me."

Her cheeks felt like she turned as red as a stop sign and she was observing the lettuce in her sandwich quite carefully.