"Sex partner. I think that has to be worse," Kate says, but she's thinking about that and has to shake her head. "Or mom. Both of them are always trying to 'fix you' anyway."

It makes her mouth quirk wry, and she has to shrug. That just makes it weirder that in some alternate universe, she and Will had a kid.

"I don't even want to think what my mom would've said. What was yours on about?"