My friends and I had just finished lunch at a hotel when it started to pour heavily. When it became    1   , I decided to get my car, which was    2    at my office three streets away.

My friends argued that I should not go, mainly because I was seven months    3    then. I assured them that I’d be very    4   . One of my friends offered to come along with me,  but I    5    that she stay with another friend who needed help with her baby.