You would have to forgive her for it, but Adrienne was most certainly not a fan of being pregnant. She just wasn't. It made her tired and grumpy, but the latter was mostly because she was more or less trapped in the house with all of the ridiculous snow, and her husband had to be away for work. Undoubtedly, he would return at the first sign of worry, but she was still impatient as ever. After much discussion and a bit of over-reacting on her part, he had decided to go anyway, which was likely for the better. If nothing else, it would ensure that he kept his position at the Ministry, though Adrienne couldn't claim that she had been worried about it.
In truth, she didn't understand why he was required to go, but knew that she had no right to ask him to stay. They had reached enough of an understanding that she could accept his trip and be comfortable with his traveling with the intern she had been so wary of before.
Since she and Nick had both had their reasons for leaving Hogwarts, though hers was more recent than his, so it had been quite some time since they had last seen each other. Not enough for them to stop getting in touch, of course, but long enough that they needed to get together and catch up a bit. So she had done her best to make the place look tidy, knowing that it was a bit much for two people so young just starting out. But Kaiden came from a family of money, and hers had not minded pitching in, despite her best efforts to convince them that it wasn't necessary. So as embarrassed she might have been by the excess of it all, Adrienne was grateful that those around her had ensured a safe and comfortable place for her to live and for the pair of them to raise their child.
Adrienne looked up at the sound of a knock at the door, a slightly bemused expression crossing her features when she caught how many times Nick rapped the door. She took longer than she cared to admit in order to cross the room, but she opened the door herself instead of with magic, stepping back to wave him inside.
"Sorry about the snow," she offered sarcastically, gesturing to the stupid stuff that covered essentially everything in her home. "It's a right mess. Hopefully things aren't too terribly messy at yours, Nick."