Sweetheart, this scene is fantastic. The novel is gonna be awesome.
Great.
Now you just need people to buy it.
Yes, that's why I have to finish it first.
Of course.
Listen.
Girl looks at guy. Guy looks at girl.
He hesitates. She waits.
What would you do?
Well I don't know darling. You're the author.
I only have two degrees and five MBAs.
I almost would've said you were 'posh'.
I'm just stuck on the love scene.
You're stuck?
That happens sometimes.
What would you say to the guy to be romantic?
Um....
I think I'm pregnant.
I told you to "be romantic". Not ruin his life.
But it's true. I think I'm pregnant.
You! Pregnant?!
Yes, me.
If you were my mother or my neighbour I wouldn't tell you.
Just hold on a second. How could that have happened?
Well it usually occurs when the sperm penetrates the ovary, makes contact with a mature egg, comes together with the cell and fertilizes it.
Errr, it does all of that?
Yes, every now and then.
But, but you're on the pill.
Do you remember that evening we got carried away with the mojitos?
When the policemen came to get you down off the lampost?
Yes, well I think that instead of taking the pill , I swallowed my right contact lens.
I couldn't find it for the life of me.
A contact lens got you pregnant?!
Something like that.
And you are completely sure?
Not completely, I'm gonna take a test.
A pregnancy test?!
I dunno what scares me more - to find out I'm pregnant or to find out that you're the father.
There's another man?!
No darling. There are certain genes...
SingingasongaboutMadrilenianstew.
Good morning.
Pepa, don't add too much pork fat. You know that it makes me feel ill.
Take it easy sweetheart.
Excuse me ma'am, but is that not what makes your husband feel ill?
Rubbish! Morcilla and chorizo make him feel worse.
And why is it called "Madrilenian" stew?
Well,to give it a name. This is eaten all over the world. ALZAK (?) took it to Japan, and all the Chinese became wide-eyed in wonder.
The Chinese? In Japan?
You heard me.
SingingasongaboutMadrilenianstew.
Do you know the secret to cooking the perfect stew?
Singing to it?
Not at all! That's what you do to your plants. Look.
Chickpeas from Fuentesaúco. Morcilla from Burgos. Chorizo from Cantimpalos. And tap water.
Look.
What should I look at?
In which countries do they do THAT?
In my country.
In your country? ??But the *** is radioactive.
I'm Bulgarian.
Really? Well would you look at that. I didn't think you were vulgar at all.
Pepa! How's that stew coming along?
??That man thinks the sun shines out of his arse??
Well just you wait and find out!
Ma'am, but that is...
Shh! You be quiet now, you're a foreigner.
??***??
But you're going to eat it ma'am.
No my dear, I won't. I'm on a diet.
Singingasongtothestew.
And are you sure it changes colour?
Yessss.
If I were pregnant, would that make you happy?
????????????????
But it could be wonderful, couldn't it?
No. ...... ?????
My mother had a difficult pregnancy.
My mother's was worse.
How much did you weigh...
76kg
when you were born?
Ohhh. I don't know. I was very young.
I was 3.5kg...and 8kg...???????
That must've hurt like a bitch.
What are you talking about? Luci was anesthetized when her labour pains started.
Is she a member of the Labour party?
Labour pain is what you experience when you give birth.