"You don't have to come…" I said slipping on my thin cardigan

"We want to" Garrett smiled "You're getting fat aft-,"

Before Garrett could finish his sentence, Kate hit him hard on the arm. He was right though, I was almost 8 months pregnant and it looked like I had stuffed a basketball under my clothes.

"What he's trying to say…" She glared at Garrett "is that you're not in the state to be lifting anything heavy"

I laughed amused "And Garrett's manly and strong enough to do that himself?"

Garrett stifled a laugh as we left the apartment. It was mid summer already and as always, it was at least 25 degrees outside. Probably more on the subway, I thought as we sat in one lonely carriage at the end of the train. Garrett grinned at Kate as the train slowly started moving away from the platform.

"Are you looking forward to being a mum then Charlotte?" Garrett asked

"Yes" I nodded "its our only chance…"

"Don't make the same mistake I did then…"

Kate frowned and turned to him.

"What mistake?"

Garrett didn't reply as the rattling of the train against the stone walls of the underground tunnel subsided. Kate and Garrett stood, expecting the doors to open; but they didn't. The doors stayed shut while outside there was the same dim tunnel we'd been speeding through earlier.

"How odd" I muttered

Garrett shrugged it off "I'm sure we're just waiting for another train to pass"

He then grinned, sitting back down on the dusty chair.

"I'm sure we'll get moving soon" He said confidently

But we didn't. For another 34 minutes, the train stood stationary. I wondered how much longer we could withstand the heat which was making my head throb and our clothes to stick to our sweaty glossy skin. Kate had moved to lean against the plastic wall, her arms folded across her chest.

"What did you mean?" she asked looking towards Garrett

"What?" He turned to her, sweat trickling down his forehead

"About making a mistake…"

He fell quite again, but the red cheeked Kate was having none of it.

"Garrett, tell me"

He shook his head. I felt sorry for him; he obviously didn't want to discuss it.

"Kate, I think he doesn't want to talk about it"

"Course he doesn't but I want to know what mistake he's talking bout Charlotte" She snapped at me

Garrett glanced up at her then glanced at me then back at the floor "Zafrina"

"She was your mistake?" Kate frowned

He shook his head "No…she wasn't"

Kate was getting frustrated. I could tell by the way she shifted herself so she was standing upright.

"Then what was?"

He paused "I think you better sit down while I tell you the whole story"

Kate sighed harshly before sitting beside me, her eyes narrowed at him. I shifted my weight a little so I was a bit more comfortable.

"…It was after High school…" he began "we weren't going to college, well…she was… I wasn't"

"Even though she'd started going to college, we were still…dating. She lived at mine most of the time, I thought we were inseparable"

"But I was wrong….."

I could see Garrett was becoming upset about this and I wanted to say he could stop, that we understood but Kate wouldn't have agreed. She wouldn't understand until the story was over.

"It was about 6 months after she had begun college. I was working late one night, I wasn't supposed to come home but I had to shut up shop early after the boss needed to rush off somewhere on important business. I went home, knowing Zafrina would be there…" he paused taking a deep breath

"but I didn't know she wouldn't be alone"

Kate frowned. I glanced at her then continued listening to Garrett.

"She had been cheating on me for 8 weeks. I guess you probably know we broke up…which we did. After that I left town….went up north to Seattle for a while, took a job there at a café. I didn't hear from Zafrina…until 2 years later…"

"She called one day…out of the blue…I wasn't really expecting it…" He looked at us thoughtfully "I guess I wasn't expecting what she was about to tell me…she had called me…to tell me she had had a baby…a boy…Nahuel"

Garrett had begun crying.

"..I regret not going to visit…"

I could tell that Kate understood now. We both understood. His mistake was that he had never met his illegitimate son.