Although Tom had seen this coming since he receive the dinner invitation, and that was the reason he had asked both Jasmine and Alicia to not tell Lucy that he was new to the neighborhood, but he hadn't imagined Lucy would as the question so soon. He tried to think of the conversation from the start to figure out what could have prompted her to ask such a question, but he couldn't come up with anything.
Seeing how he remained silent, Alicia stepped in to save her potential sperm donor, "We should head to the dining since I served dinner already, and we don't want it to get cold," Alicia suggested with an awkward smile, wanting to give Tom enough time to come up with an appropriate response.
"Yes. We should," Jasmine said, motioning for Tom and Lucy to follow them to the dining.
