In this task, you're given the title of a five-sentence story, the first four sentences, and two options for the fifth sentence as a and b. Your job is to pick the sentence option that seamlessly connects with the rest of the story, indicating your choice as 'a' or 'b'. If both sentences are plausible, pick the one that makes more sense.

Title: An Ironic Interlude. Sentence 1: Blaze was born in Holland. Sentence 2: His parents moved to Kansas when he was quite young. Sentence 3: One day he was playing near a pond and fell in. Sentence 4: Blaze drowned, having never learned to swim. Choices: a. His parents were too embarrassed to tell the family back in Holland. b. She left work happy with a pay raise.
a