"Don't worry Mom, I'll get it." Simone yells upstairs as she rushes to answer the front door of the Russell home.

"Hey Simone." a voice says as Simone opens the front door. Standing there is a beautiful young woman Hailey Chambers, who happens to be Simone's cousin.

"Hey cuz." Simone responds rather surprisingly. "Didn't think you'd get here so fast."

"Well u sounded so ominous on the phone. All I did was tell u about this great guy I met." Hailey said with a slight smile

"I know Hailey. Miguel."

"So what's the problem??" Hailey questioned.

"Well cuz, when it comes to Miguel, there's a lot of.....let's just call it history." Simone said.

"History??...With who??...You??"

"No not with me persay, but with Kay."

"Oh I remember her. She's your best friend right Simone?"

"Yea. We've been best friends since as long as I can remember."

"So what's the deal between Miguel and Kay??...Bad breakup??"

"Well....not quite." Simone responded with a bit of sarcasm in her voice.

"Kay was in love with Miguel for years, but he only had eyes for Charity, Kay's cousin."

"So Kay did whatever she could to try and come between them, but to no avail."

"Yea so." Hailey said sarcastically.

"So the day Charity and Miguel were supposed to get married, right before the I do's really...Kay comes running down the isle saying she's pregnant with Miguel's baby."

"What??!!" Hailey says, shocked by the news.

"Yea...None of us could believe it. Miguel said he's never slept with Kay."

"I can't believe he said that. That's the oldest line in the book." Hailey says slightly rolling her eyes.

"But, the truth is Hailey, I believe him."

"You do??"

"Yea." Simone responds. "He says the only person he's ever slept with was Charity, and that was only once."

"And I know Miguel, he would never betray Charity like that."

"So if he only slept with Charity one time, how did Kay end up pregnant??"

"Well" Simone sighed, "We're not quite sure."

"Me and Kay's sister Jessica think that Kay used some kind of magical means to trick Miguel into bed."

"Magic??....Simone you've got to be kidding me." Hailey says while slightly chuckling.

"Nope." "I kid u not."

"So what happened after that??" Hailey asked.

"Well needless to say the wedding didn't happen."

"I'd think not."

"The strain of what happened was too much for Charity. She left town a few weeks later."

"Kay saw it as a sign that her and Miguel were meant to be. But Miguel still wanted nothing to do with her."

"Really?" Hailey asked. "What about the baby?"

"Well Kay went into labor a month or so prematurely. It was a tough delivery."

"Miguel decided to be there for the sake of the baby, so he was right holding her hand the whole time."

"They had a little girl, Maria."

"But because she was premature, there were complications. She had to be put in a incubator and taken too NICU."

"But she had problems breathing. Mom did everything she could, but she couldn't save her." Simone said somberly.

"So the baby died???" "That's so sad." Hailey said.

"Yea. It was tough. They went through hell greiving her."

"But eventually, they got through it together."

"So did they ever, u know." Hailey questioned.

Just then, there was a knock at the door.

"I'll be right back." Simone said as she went to answer the door.

She was taken aback when she opened the door to find none other than Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald standing there.

"Hey Simone. You busy, I really need to talk to you."

"Well here we are." Whitney said as she and Frank walked through the crisp autumn air, leaves cruching beneath there feet.

"Somehow, I knew we'd end up here." Frank remarked.

"The good 'ol Book Cafe. This was always one of your favorite places to go."

"How'd u know??" Whitney questioned with a smile.

"You told me once while we were talking in the park. You mentioned you always go there to unwind and take your mind off things."

"I can't believe u remembered. That was a long time ago." Whitney said, touched that Frank recalled such a seemingly meaningless conversation.

"You're kind of hard to forget." Frank said softly. Whitney flashed him the most beautiful smile.

"Hey Whit." The voice of Paloma Lopez-Fitzgerald said as she saw her friend enter.

"Hey Paloma. I'd like u meet a very old friend of mine. This is Frank."

"Nice to meet u Paloma." Frank said as he extended his hand to her.

"Nice to meet u too." Paloma responded. "Let me get u two a table." Paloma said as she gave Whitney a sly smile, seemingly telling Whitney to fill her in on the details later.

"Can we get a latte" Whit asked the waitress after sitting down. "And a Cappucino for me." Frank added.

"So tell me what's been going on with u." Frank asked Whitney.

"I saw a copy of a tabloid that said that Chad Harris is Alistair Crane's son???"

"Yea." Whit responded.

"I remember he was looking for his parents, I bet he never saw that one coming." Frank said slightly chuckling.

"None of us did." Whit said in a low tone.

"And his mother is my aunt Liz."

"You mean....u and him are cousins???" Frank said.

"Yea. We're family alright, more than we ever knew." Whit said with sadness in her voice.

"So tell me the whole story." Frank asked her.

Whitney began to tell Frank the entire story of her and Chad's relationship. From their beginnings as a couple, to her sisters discovery of them making love, to their trip to LA and her affair with Fox, to Chad's revelation of having been married and their run-ins with Puff Dog.

"I knew there was something about that guy I didn't trust." Frank remarked.

"There's more." Whit said.

"Shortly after we got back from LA, I found out I was pregnant."

"And due to the timelines, I knew it was Chad's baby." Whitney said.

"I knew I was carrying a child of incest, and I didn't know what to do." Whitney said as tears began to form in her eyes.

"Go on." Frank said softly as he reached across the table and held Whitney's hand in his.

"I decided to put the baby up for adoption."

"Did u tell Chad about it??" Frank asked.

"No, not then. But eventually he found out."

"It was hard enough having to have our relationship end the way it did, now we had a baby to think about."

"All the stress was building up, and one night it bubbled over. I woke up in the middle of the night with severe cramps. I thought it was nothing, but then I started bleeding. Luckily I was at Theresa's so she heard me and rushed me to the hospital. The doctors were tending to me. My mom came and the neo-natal specialist were called in too. After a few minutes my mom told me I had suffered a miscarriage."

"Wow Whit. I never knew. I'm so sorry."

"I know my baby was a product of incest, and I wanted to give him a better life. I never thought of him not being here to experience it at all." Whitney said as she struggled to talk through her tears.

Frank went over to her and and she fell into his arms in a sad embrace.

"He's gone." Whit said as she cried on Frank's shoulder.
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