As the instructor was telling them what to do with the birthing balls, she was thinking of another set of balls differently.

And when she started sweating and breathing harshly during the exercises they were asked to do with their partners, it certainly had nothing to do with squatting positions.

It was all because she had various other positions in mind that had nothing to do with how to easily push babies out.

When she was already picturing every other person in the room falling off the face of the earth, she knew they had to go.

She gave a close-to-incoherent excuse and practically dragged Maxwell out of there.

They...