Lynn
We are finally back at the residence after a fun day at the track. I am exhausted and so nasty. We finished the last race around 4pm and we have decided gourmet at home. Adam, Jos, Marc, and Louis take care of the groceries, and the others go back to the villa to freshen up a bit.
"Shall we take a shower upstairs again? Max asks with a sultry look. "Sure, I don't mind!"
He grabs my hand and we almost run to out bedroom to get our stuff as soon as possible. We don't want anyone to see us sneak upstairs. Max opens the door, looks left right left, and we run towards the stairs.
We walk to the bathroom, and I close it behind me, put the lock on in and turn myself around. Max is already half naked. "How did you undress yourself so fast?" I ask him. "When I know what I want, that is you by the way, I work as fast as I can to have it" he says while pulling on my shirt to take it of my body.
I put my arms up and let him take off my shirt.
In the time I get my jeans off, Max turns on the shower. When we are both fully undressed, we step into the shower.
We go through the same routine as this morning. We help cleaning each other, without any sexual intentions.
Around twenty minutes later, we have dried up and are dressed in another set of comfortable clothes. We walk slowly downstairs, back to our room. We place all of our stuff back and walk back to the living room. All the mums are getting the table ready for dinner. The gourmet sets are already on the table, and the cutlery is also already on the table.
Around 5pm the fathers are back at the resident with a lot of bags with food. "Couldn't you get anymore with you?" my mum says to them. They all laugh. "Clean your self up and be back here in ten" she says to them.
The fathers left the room and the mothers starting to place every piece of meat on a plate. All the pieces are divided on three plates and placed on the dining table.
At 5.20pm everything is ready, and everyone has taken a seat. Vera, Lando, Max and I are on the right sight of the table and the others on the right side.
Everyone, except for Flo and Cisca has a glass of wine. They have some soft drinks. We all cheers to the fun weekend we already have experiences, and we start putting the meat on the plates.
The alcohol has been poured well at the right side of the table. There has been a lot of laughing and I didn't think the things which are being discussed are that funny.
We have a laugh at our parent. They are behaving like idiots right now. They mess up the whole thing. Marc is the drunkest of all I think. "Vera, can you please talk to your dad? He is making a fool out of himself" I say to her. "Is he? I hate when he drinks. I'll be right back" she answers.
Vera
I walk to my dad and stand behind him. I place my hand on his shoulders and bend my knees a little. "Dad, lets go out for a stroll." I say to him. "Why?" he asked a little irritated. "Because you had a bit much to drink" I whisper in his ear. "It is not your place to judge me! Leave me alone!" he yells and walks away. We all hear the front door slamming shut. Everyone looks at me and I feel a bit embarrassed. I walk back to my seat and sit down. "You did nothing wrong" Lando says and put his arm around me. "He will be back Veer. He just needs some air" My mum adds to it. I give her a hand kiss and we all continue with dinner.
Twenty minutes later my dad walks back in. "Sorry for what just happened. I am tired and in combination with the alcohol, I get irritated amazingly fast" he says when he sits down again. He seems more sober, but he has been really good at faking it before.
Around seven everyone is done eating and is cleaning the table. we bring everything to the kitchen. My dad is helping Sophie getting everything into the dishwasher.
I hear shards falling and a lot of swearing. "Godverdomme!" I hear my dad say. I walk to the kitchen and my dad walked right through me. "What has happened?" I ask Sophie. "Nothing really. He dropped a plate, and his level of irritation couldn't handle it or something. Just as he was when he was younger" she responds. I look at her strangely and follow my fathers' steps. When I am at the door, I turn around and say: "I will talk to him. Again..." I open the door of the living room and walk into the hallway.
Sophie
When Vera came back from her talk with her dad, she left with Lando, Max, and Lynn to do something together. This was about half an hour ago and Marc still hasn't come back. Must have been a heavy discussion and I decide to look for him as I know how he was when he was younger. I walk upstairs to his and Petra's room to see if he is there. I knock on the door but hear nothing, I open the door to check and see him sitting on the end of the bed with his hand in his hair.
*Conversation is Dutch*
Sophie: "Heyy, are you okay?"
Marc: "Yeah I'm fine" he says looking down again.
Sophie: "Are you sure?" I ask him and he keeps looking down.
Sophie: "I think there is more that is bothering you than Vera telling you to get some air and the plate, which is shattered, am I right?"
Marc: "Just the memories of us in college, how heartbroken I was when you left."
Sophie: "I left?! You didn't even consider what I had to give up being with you! I left everyone I cared about behind me to be with you. You didn't even let me practice my hobbies. So, it is not fair to say that I left you."
Marc: "You show me off like I made you cut of everything."
Sophie: "That is because you did! You didn't support me racing."
Marc: "Because it is a dangerous sport, and I didn't want to lose you."
Sophie: "That worked out so well for you, did it?!"
Marc: "You know I didn't mean it like that. I loved you with my whole heart, I wanted to protect you."
Sophie: "From whom? The entire world? Please, you look like a fool!"
Marc: "At least a fool who loved you. You didn't love me."
Sophie: "Who has said that? I have loved you till the end. But we were not making each other happy. You still don't see it, do you?"
Marc: "Who looks like a fool now? I wasn't the one who got someone pregnant as soon as we met."
*Silence*
Sophie: "Don't involve Jos in this. He has nothing to do with this!"
Marc: 'I hit a nerve I see. But he has something to do with this, as Max was born 9 months after you met, and he wears his last name. You got over me extremely fast"
Sophie: "Why shouldn't Max be wearing his last name? You sound like a jealous pig."
Marc: "Jealous?! Never! I didn't throw away my racing career over a pregnancy."
Sophie: "No you can still race when you make someone pregnant, that is a little different for me. And as you see, I didn't give my racing career up for nothing. MAX IS A F*CKING WORLDCHAMPION!"
Marc: "Apparently you have claimed your and Jos's son to your self. It doesn't surprise me that he divorced you!"
*Sophie slaps Marc in his face*
Sophie: "You are drunk! Get your shit together and than we will talk together."
Marc: "I don't want to talk later; I want to talk now! Why is it that you are claiming Max as your own? Have you cheated on him and he doesn't now?
Sophie: "I would never cheat on anyone."
Marc: "Did you behave as a slut and have a lot of one-night stands? So, you don't know who Max' father is? And you tricked in Jos being the father."
Sophie: "I don't know how less you know about me. But I am not a person who sleeps with the first man I see!"
Marc: "So what is it than? What is your dirty little secret?"
Sophie: "You would never look at me the same, if you knew the truth."
Marc: "What has something to do with me? But not enough apparently, which results in me not knowing the answer?"
Sophie: "I have already said to much. I am leaving."
Marc: "Wait, what are you not telling me?"
*Flashback to March 1996*
"Ms. Kumpen, come in please" the doctor says. After the positive pregnancy test, I called a midwife to make an appointment. There was a spot available for the same day around 3pm. I skipped my meetings I had scheduled. This is a priority. I didn't want to make a scene out of it. Jos and I talked about the future on our way here. We decided, when everything looks healthy, I have to tell my manager and team about the exciting news. I will quit the team, as soon as possible.
And when everything doesn't look right, this will be our secret. No one has to know anything about it.
We take a seat, and the doctor offers us something to drink. We both ask for some water. A few minutes later, she comes back with two filled glasses.
She sits down and unlocks her computer. "So, Sophie, welcome. How are you feeling?" she asks me. "A little nervous, besides that I feel fine" I respond. "That is good. First I want to start to ask you some personal questions, if you don't mind?" the doctor says. I shake my head.
Doctor: "Great. To start, when was your last period?"
Sophie: "I think around the end of December. I don't know when specific, I was not tracking my period at the time due circumstances. Since I was a teenager, my period has always been irregular. I used the pill since I was seventeen. I stopped about 9 months ago"
Doctor: "Do you use anticonception?"
Sophie: "We use condoms."
Doctor: "How long have you been together."
Sophie: "Officially, since today. We met in January."
Doctor: "Did you have any bedpartners before January?"
Sophie: "I had a relationship of two and a half years."
Doctor: "Did you use anticonception with him?"
Sophie: "I used the pill until 2 years in the relationship. The other six months we mostly used a condom. But I don't see why this is relevant."
Doctor: "Every detail regarding to a pregnancy is relevant. It doesn't have to mean something, but it is till crucial information. May I ask what you mean with mostly?"
Sophie: "When I was tracking my period, we used a condom only in my fertility window."
Doctor: "And after you stopped tracking?"
Sophie: "I honestly have no answer for you. In the last month we didn't have intercourse regularly. Once a week at most I think."
Doctor: "Which symptoms have you experienced?"
Sophie: "late period and nauseous in the morning. That is about it I think."
Doctor: "Thank you for your answers. Let go to the exam room."
We walk out of the room and go to the room beside it. "Please lay down on the examination table for me" she says to me. I lay down and Jos takes a seat beside me and takes my hand.
The doctor turns on the ultrasound machine and get everything ready. "Can you lift up your shirt for me?" she asks. I do what I am told and lift my shirt. She grabs some paper towel and put it over my jeans. To protect my clothes form getting dirty she says.
"This can be a little cold" she says as she puts cold gel on my stomach. And she isn't lying, it is cold. She grabs the sonde and put it on my belly. "Let's have a look"
After a few minutes of silence, the doctor starts talking again. "Sorry you waited so long in silence. Everything looks good and healthy; the heart is beating, and I see no abnormalities"
It feels like I am able to finally breath again. "There is one other thing. It seems to be that you are already twelve weeks along. Which suggest you got pregnant around New Years Eve."
*End of flashback*
Lando
We've been upstairs in Vera and my room for quite a bit now playing never have I ever to get to know each other better and we're all getting a bit drunk by now. "Never have I ever send someone a dirty pic" I say next and Max and Lynn both drink. Vera and I look surprised at each other and back to Max and Lynn. "Actually?" Vera asks and they both nod. "To each other?" I ask and they look at each other before answering. "No" they say at the same time. Vera and I look at each other again and I can see we both don't believe that answer but decide to let it go. "Never have I ever lied to someone in this room" Vera says as she looks at Lynn and they both start laughing. "You just want us drunk, don't you" Max says as they know we both have to drink now, because we didn't tell the truth about who we were. They look at each other again and back at us and nod. "Sneaky bastards" I say as Max and I both take a sip. I see Max whisper something in Lynn her ear but can't hear it. Must be something he really doesn't want us to know as I know Max normally isn't particularly good at whispering. "Never have I ever had a sex dream about someone in this room" I suddenly hear behind me, and I didn't notice Flo coming in. Max immediately drinks. "Not only a dream" he says drunkenly, and we all look at him. Vera looks with wide eyes between Lynn and Max and starts to laugh. Lynn hits Max on his chest and looks back at Vera. It seems like they're heaving a conversation without even talking. I hear the door behind me close and see Flo is gone again. She went back downstairs again. I pull Vera closer to me into a hug. "Are you okay?" I ask her softly and she nods.
"I have to go to the toilet" I say after a few minutes of silence as I get up. "Continue, I'll be right back" I add to it and walk out of the room towards the bathroom.
When I get walk back from the bathroom I hear Marc and Sofie talking. I hear Max his name a few times, but because they're talking Dutch I don't really understand a lot of what they're saying. However, I decide to listen to understand a bit of what they're saying as it is a bit suspicious that Max his mum and Vera her dad is talking to each in Vera's parents' bedroom. They wanted some privacy, but it doesn't sound like a normal conversation about Max, but like something is going on. During the few days in Monaco and the days here Antwerp I got the feeling they know each other from not only just these days, but also when they were younger or something. But they never said anything about it like they didn't want us to find out or something.
I decide to open my Google Translate app, so I can listen to the conversation they are having. The app is picking up some of the words, but it isn't really making sense. After standing there for a few minutes, I decide I have been here for way to long. I have intersected a conversation, which I am not supposed to be a part of.
When I want to walk away the door opens and Marc is standing in front of me. "Everything alright?" I ask him. I try to act just as normal as possible. "How long have you been standing there?" he asks angry. "I was just going to the bathroom; I am on my way back to the others. We are playing never have I ever" I answer him. "Know, if you lie to me, I will ruin you. You will never see Vera again. You hear what I am saying?"
I nod and walk back to the others, as fast as I can. I look back if Marc is not following me, he isn't. I see Sophie coming out of the room now. It looks like she is crying. It must be something really big, what is bothering her. I decide to ignore it and walk further to the room where the others are.
Still with my mind by the conversation I overheard I walk into the room. "Finally, where have you been?" Max immediately says, but I don't really hear it. I hear Vera her voice next which makes me snap out of my thoughts. "Heyy Lan? Are you okay?" she asks me, and I look at her. "I don't know" I answer honestly as I sit next to her again and she takes my hand. "What's going on?" she asks me, and I don't know how to answer it really. "Lando, what is going on?" Max asks again and I look up at him. "I don't know, I heard your mom, Max and your dad, Vera talking to each other and heard your name a few times during the conversation Max" I say, and Max doesn't seem to worry about it. "So? They were talking about me, don't think that is something weird as it is my mom we're talking about" Max says, and I look down again. "What are you not telling us?" Max asks as he sees my face. "They were in his bedroom, and it didn't sound like a normal conversation. They were talking and screaming in Dutch, so I didn't understand everything they said, but I got some parts. About one-night stands and a secret which involves your mom and dad, Max, and Vera her dad or something, but I don't think that is normal when your parents are talking about it together and they were in his bedroom, so why were they talking privately about it?" I ask them. "Wait what?" Vera says and now looks surprised as well. "Okay, that is weird indeed" Max says. "So, what is going on?" I ask them and we all just look at each other not knowing...