“No, not yet. I think we’re going to, but Dana thinks maybe we should see if we can find someone we know.”

“Yeah, that way it doesn’t seem quite as anonymous,” I agreed.

“Well, do you want someone related to you?” Jenny asked me.

I had to admit that I hadn’t really thought about that, and wondered why I hadn’t. I didn’t want to ask Harrison for the reasons I’d already given Shane, but the idea of the child being related to me by blood did strike some kind of chord. “I hadn’t really thought about that, but yeah, I think I would. Alice?”

She glanced at me sideways and shrugged. “Hey, if one of your boy relatives wants to jerk off in a cup for me, I won’t complain. It’s not like I have to see it.”

“How about Howie? He’d probably be fine with it,” I said before I really had a chance to think it through. In my head after first hearing the idea, he was the most logical choice since he was the most closely related to me, and I figured he’d probably be happy to help out.

I almost jumped out of my seat when Shane spit her coffee all the way across the table and onto the floor. Jenny was making faces of complete disgust, and Tina shook her head. Alice looked at me as if I’d gone completely insane, and I was baffled. I was going to ask just why the hell everyone was acting like I’d suggested sacrificing newborn kittens in exchange for a baby when I heard Kit grumbling from behind us.

“I don’t care if you’re in here talking about some kinda lesbian sex moves or whatever you wanna do, but you need to quit spitting your coffee on my nice clean floor. They just waxed it last night!”

“Sorry,” Shane mumbled.

“I’m not gonna feed you to the wolves or anything, just be more careful.” She sat down with a heavy sigh. “Now you wanna tell me exactly what’s causing all the commotion? I could hear the carrying on from all the way in the back.”

“Dana suggested Howie as the sperm donor,” Jenny informed her matter-of-factly. Kit turned to me as if she’d never heard anything so strange in her entire life.