"How could you do that to me?" Jan asks in a rage of adrenaline and tears.

"Honey, I..." Carol tries to exclaim but her own tears are making it harder to speak.

The conversation is too much for Mike. Carol and Jan were upstairs in the bedroom while he was catching up on work in the office. Oh boy, he thinks as he sets his pencil down. He knew something was up with Jan ever since dinner. The awkward situation that had occured only an hour ago at the family table was all he could think as he slowly walked up the stairs.

"I gave blood today," Jan announced at the dinner table.

"Oh you did go through with it, good!" Mike said pleased as he dished out mashed potatoes on his plate. "You know you will be doing a lot of good by donating your blood. You could even save a life."

"I gave blood last year when I was still in Junior High," stated Marcia.

"Me too," said Greg, chiming in.

"They gave me a blood test when I had my tonsils out," said Cindy.

"Can we not talk about blood? It's grossing me out!" Peter exclaims with a mouth full of food.

"Yeah! Me too!" Bobby exclaims following suit.

"Your food you're still chewing on is grossing me out!" Jan fires back.

"Too bad!" Peter says while gnawing off a piece of roast beef to make her mad.

"That's gross!" Jan says kicking him under the table.

"Jan!" It was Carol's turn to be mad. "Leave the table."

"But Mom, Peter was the one who..."

"Yes and he was wrong , but you have to learn how to react to such things. You can come back when everyone's finished. Alice will heat your plate back up."

That was when Jan put her cloth napkin back on the tablecloth and slowly began to walk away.

"Hey, Jan," Marcia calls before Jan can make it up the stairs.

"Yeah?"

"What was your blood type?"

"AB+"

"Mine is O."

"Yeah, I think mine is too," Cindy says chiming in.

"Mine is B-," Greg says joining the conversation.

Mike noticed Jan wasn't listening by that point. She shot her mother a look and ran up the stairs before her siblings could miss her. Mike knew this day would come. It was Carol's biggest secret that he swore he would never tell until Carol was ready to talk to Jan about it. At the time, Mike said if you tell me yours, I'll tell you mine. So hers was that she knew her first husband was a cheater shortly after Marcia's first birthday. Carol felt so hurt that she went and cheated on him. Karma was the one who got Carol when she became pregnant from a fling she had with of all people: his boss. Carol has said she will never, ever regret having Jan but will always regret the fling she had with that boss. Her husband had found out after Cindy turned two at a company party. His boss had to much to drink and spilled the beans. Carol came clean with the truth the next morning; Jan wasn't his daughter. He left that evening. He pulled the girls aside to say goodbye to them. While he was leaving, all he had to say to Carol was that he can't even look at Jan anymore.

He finally opened the door to see Carol and Jan sobbing in each other's arms. He goes over to them and wraps his arms around each of their shoulders.

"Mom told me everything," Jan says looking up at Mike.

"I figured," he says giving her a kiss on the temple. Jan turns away from her mother and gives Mike a hug.

"I love you so much," she says crying once again crying into his shoulder.

"I love you, too, baby."