I played it cool while trying to keep my nerves in check. "Like I said, my stomach's been acting up. People throw up all the time, right? Don't you have better things to do than hang around here?"

"Just stomach problems, huh?" she asked, eyes narrow and mean.

"What else would it be?"

"Better be just that," she backed off a little.

I was washing up, ready to bolt, when Susan dropped the bomb, "Sophia, you're pregnant, aren't ...