"Evonne, can I?" Rina asked, pulling out her wallet, while James was smiling with glee at the money he was about to receive. "Ahhh, if you come to my clinic with rotten teeth, I will not be held responsible." Evonne took a ten-dollar note out of her wallet and handed it to James instead. "Thank you, cuz.
I knew I could count on you," he said, jumping out of his chair. "And that's what you call reverse psychology, ladies," he added before smiling and turning his full attention to Rina. "And thank you, Rina, for helping out." "You shouldn't do this, Rina.
Always spoiling him," Evonne said, watching her cousin enter the café. "I adore him. He's a good kid," Rina said, smiling after him. "Anyway, I want to talk to you seriously about your plan for the future, with this man. Are you sure this is what you want?' "Yes. I'm sure," Evonne said. "You won't get lonely after having a baby with no father?" Rosa chimed in.
"No, I've been thinking about this a lot, guys. I know I'm old, and I know no one would consider me at this age." "Not that again, Evonne. You know you're beautiful. You don't need some guy to tell you that or to make you feel like an angel every morning."
"I know. That's what I'm getting at. I'm over being called ugly and teased in the past. I don't care about that anymore. It doesn't concern me. What I want right now is a baby.
No room for love. I only want to give my love to my baby. But I don't have time to wait. I feel like this is a perfect time. I need a baby now. If I choose Ulysses, then my chances are high. I can get pregnant before I turn thirty-five. I don't want to wake up one morning and realize I'm too old to have a child." "You're right there, but the big question is, how do you plan to go about capturing him?" Rina asked.
"Yes, obviously you can't just… ask him." Rosa gave her opinion. "And that, guys, is where it all stops," Evonne confessed. She knew she wanted Ulysses's sperm, but the thing was she just didn't know how to go about collecting that sperm. "I have no idea how to go about this."
"Would it be better if you just go to the fertility clinic? It saves you from thinking of all these weird ways to capture his sperm," Rosa suggested. "I've just been to the clinic today.
They won't allow me to see the man's face," Evonne said. "I can't have that. I need to see his face." "Evonne, wouldn't it be better not to have a face to go with the sperm? I mean, what if you ended up liking your sperm donor and hunting him down, only to find he already has a family?" Rina said.
"That's what the doctor said, but I kind of made a scene already, so I don't think I can go back there," Evonne said sheepishly.
"There are other clinics, you know," Rosa suggested. "I know, but my mind is set on this one," Evonne spoke. "Okay, how to go about it, then?" Rina asked. "Go about what?" James butted in when he returned with his apple juice. "About capturing the perfect sperm for Evonne," Rina explained. "Why are we on to capturing sperm now? What did I miss?" James asked.
"Nothing much," Rosa explained. "Just that. To find a way to capture that sperm so Evonne can fall pregnant before the end of the year." "Oh, that." James laughed as if he were possessed by some unknown spirit. His eyes shot up and he stared at the three older women, suddenly serious. "Easy," he said, "just pounce on him."
"What?" Evonne was flabbergasted at her cousin's suggestion. " James, I'm not a lion stalking my prey." "What I mean is to seduce him," James clarified. "Seduce him? Like how?" Evonne asked in confusion. "You know so that one plus one equals one." James wiggled his eyebrows. "No, one plus one equals two," Rosa and Evonne both said at the same time. "Lord, why are you two so naïve? You're both mature women, but you don't even know what one plus one is."