Living up to the success of previous generations is never an easy task if your parents grew up to be successful professionals. For Susie Carmichael, an acclaimed screenwriter father and accomplished doctor mother is what she had to surpass, and despite the fact that her childhood dream was to become a singer as big as someone like Lady Gaga or Emica, she decided that the smart thing would be to let that go and become a doctor like her mother. Despite the privilege that comes along with coming from an upper-middle class, two-professional-parent household, Susie's experience as a young Black woman made her unique in her hometown where the African American population was small and less economically advantaged as her. Susie graduated from Eucaipah High School in 2006 and was accepted into UCLA for the following fall semester. It was now April 2010 and Susie was now in her final semester as an undergrad and was preparing to begin Medical School in the fall as well.

During these four, mind-opening years, Susie met many interesting people, but none were more important than her three roommates, all of them black girls from all walks of life. Like Susie, Linda came from an educated, well-to-do family and grew up in a Houston Suburb. Maya came from rural Alabama, her people not having moved from the place that over a century and a half ago held their ancestors in bondage. Ja'Dyn came from inner-city Detroit and was raised by her single mother, both she and Maya would be the first in their families to attend college. Despite their similarities, Susie did not feel most at home with Linda, instead Maya was her kindred spirit, her best friend, and roommate in their two-bedroom apartment. The four girls found camaraderie in their shared experiences as young Black women entering the field of medicine, when one of them got a summer internship at a clinic, they all celebrated, when one of them broke up with their kinesiology-majoring meathead boyfriend, they all mourned, they even had a rule that none of them would select their classes until registration was open for all four of them. The Pre-Med program also had many weekend seminars, granting complements one unit after completing the two-day affair. The four girls had taken many of them in order to complete their degrees on time, and whenever one came up they all signed up together, and this one was no exception.

Maya came rushing into the apartment waiving a flyer in her hand, declaring, "Girls, I just found out about this seminar later this month, if we do it that should get us to six units off of taking these thing."

It was then that Linda stood up and pointed at the flyer, saying, "Let me see that."

The girl's privileged background prepared her to over-analyze any advertisement and catch a scam, and she had found it in this flyer, adding, "This looks good, Maya, but have you checked the requirements?"

Maya took a look at the wording near the bottom written in a smaller font, and read out loud, "Finished childcare prerequisites, check, must have the entire weekend off, check, students must bring with them one infant for at least two participants..."

"Also, students must bring their own baby supplies," Ja'Dyn added after taking a peep at the flyer from above Maya's shoulder, bringing with her own kind of observational humor she injected into any conversation she was a part of.

Disappointed that they seemingly could not meet the requirements for this seminar, Maya said in a defeated tone, "So, lets toss this one in the trash, we don't have two babies."

While this course was in no way necessary in order to become a doctor, the fact that Susie would graduate having taken only five of these courses instead of six in order to round it up to like having taken two extra courses rubbed Susie the wrong way. Fortunately, she knew someone who could help her out of her dilemma.

Even though everyone else was beginning to forget about the seminar, Susie blurts out, "I think I can get us two babies, let me just make a call."

Out of a sense of curiosity, Maya asked Susie, "Who are you calling, Susie?"

"A friend," Susie replied in a closed off manner.

"A friend with kids you've never told us about," Linda responded, confused as she had met many of Susie's other friends, the pre-law Sophomore Kimi here in UCLA, a film major of the same year named Tommy, and undeclared-even-after-four-years best friend of Susie's whom Linda could not believe got into UCLA, Angelica.

Susie sensed suspicion from all of her roommates for just bringing up these old friends of hers, so she immediately tried to take back control of the narrative, saying, "They don't live in the area, and they don't get out that much."

"Oh, you mean because of the babies?" Ja'Dyn asked, unsure of any other reasons why someone would not go out and live life every other day.

Susie struggled to express her response and stumbled right through it as she said, "Um, sure, yeah, that's actually why."

Susie went off to her room alone and made a call to her friend, after about five minutes, she reemerged in the living room and asked, "Hey Maya, who's in charge of this seminar?"

"Dr. Kadivar."

"Okay, I'll need to talk to her about the details, but it looks like my friend will be letting us take care of her baby twins for the weekend," Susie said before heading off and emailing Dr. Kadivar about what the babies would need to do.

Dr. Kadivar responded a few hours later and Susie relayed the response to her secret friend, it turns out the babies will be put through basic cognitive and motor skills test while the adult students take on caretaker roles for these babies. No registration of the babies is required which was of the upmost importance for Susie's friend when it came to the decision of letting Susie take her kids. She worried about how one of her kids would do on the tests, but she hesitantly agreed to the seminar.