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more Spanish terms now that he was older. Sure there were a few, like abuelo and abuela that she knew because that is what she called her own grandparents.
                  “Bruce, do you want to have children?” Her mother asked him.
                  “Yes, ma’am. At least two, maybe four.” She saw him glance at her from the corner of his eye. She hoped he knew how thin the ice he was skating on was.
                  “Four!” Her father was excited.
                  Her mother lit up. “We only had two because we wanted them to have the best of everything we could give them, Bruce. I regret it. I wish I would have given them less and had more. Maybe then my baby wouldn’t be alone when…” Her mother teared up.
                  Her father immediately comforted her mom. Bruce looked at her. His right hand moved to rest on her left knee. He gave a squeeze. She wasn’t going to cry. Absolutely not.
                  Her mother collected herself and smiled at them. Harmony really had to breathe through it. She was not going to let it get to her. She had shed her tears, she had dealt with it, she had accepted it, and though it hurt to think about, she wasn’t going to cry every time he was mentioned.
                  “Well, don’t get too excited.” Harmony realized that all three of them looked at her immediately.  She cleared her throat. “We haven’t even talked about other things that need to come before grandchildren.”
                  “Isn’t that what we are doing here?” Her father looked from her to Bruce and back. “You don’t bring anyone to see us, ever. I know you have had other boyfriends. You brought him. I thought that meant he’s the one.”
                  “Can we maybe lighten the mood some and get lunch?” Harmony sighed.
                  “Of course,” her mother said. “Come, Juan. Let’s go grab them something to eat.”
                  Her mother pulled her father by the hand. He said, “You don’t even know what they want to eat.”
                  “I’ll figure it out, sweetheart.” Her mother winked. Harmony smiled. Her mom handled the business end of the business. She had taken some business classes after Harmony moved out. Without two kids in the house they earned enough for her to do a lot of things, but she took the classes and they were saving their money to do exactly what they were doing now.
                  As soon as her parents were out of earshot Bruce whispered, “How deep am I?”
                  “What?” She looked at him.
                  “I know I’m in trouble. You looked like you wanted to stab me when I said four kids.” He slid his hand up to grab hers.
                  “No one believes in me as an actress.” She shook her head. “I have to give up my dream to have kids.”
                  “No, that’s not true. I believe in you and you don’t have to give up anything. Except maybe that job, because I honestly don’t like you working nights. I know, I know. It’s chauvinistic, double-standard, blah blah blah, it’s still true. I don’t have a problem with other women working the late shift. Just you.” He was being a bulldozer again. “You have worked some as an extra right? Have you tried other things, like theatre, or commercials?”
                  “I wanted to be a movie star.” She laughed after saying it out loud. Sheesh, she was as bad as everyone else in this town. Thousands of people wanting the same thing.
                  “And I wanted to be a quarterback, but I made a lot of money as a wide receiver. You don’t have to let go of your dreams, gorgeous. You just have to make the dream work for you.” He let go of her hand and then put his hand on her neck and pulled her in for a kiss.