Governor's mansion January 1982

"Elizabeth is sleeping with Jack Sparrow, Governor. He has a nice condo which looks out on Tampa bay. Drug Money is what he used to purchase it no doubt."

"Are you serious Will? How do you know that this is true."

"You know that club Lemon Drop, well I saw Elizabeth and Jack sitting on a chair, Elizabeth was sitting on his lap and they were making out and then they went to a private room. I don't need to tell you what probably happened. They didn't know I was there. I kept my distance."

Will put in a VCR tape which showed the couple kissing and making out on the chair. Elizabeth took Jack's hand and they went into a private room.

"To your knowledge, how long have they been together?"

"Since the beginning of November." said Will. He had altered the date on it.

He felt guilty about lying about it. Elizabeth had actually met Jack when she was a freshman at Tampa Episcopal College at the Lemon Drop. Jack had a talent for singing and would often sing with the Lemon Drop Band.

She wasn't really dating Will but everyone thought she was, including her parents who approved of him. They pretended to be a couple. They never kissed or even have sex with each other. Even though they went to a college which was conservative by state school standards, most of the student body had had sex by the time they were seniors in college, most in high school. At the end of their junior year, Will and Elizabeth had broken up. Their parents weren't too thrilled with it.

Elizabeth had told Will that she and Jack started hanging out together that summer at the Lemon Drop.

"Governor, Elizabeth is also pregnant."

As Elizabeth listened to the cassette tape which was very old and had some static on it, memories came back very strong.

September 1982

It was a week after her 21st birthday on a Saturday Night.. She had gone up to Jack's apartment and it was about 11:00 pm They probably would have done this much sooner but delayed it. A couple of weeks earlier, Elizabeth had her pap smear and annual gynecological exam. Dr. Daniel Evans was someone that Elizabeth never trusted. Since her parents were paying the bill she had no choice and even though she was of age, the doctor would tell her mother that she was still a virgin.

Jack laughed when she told him that they would have to wait 2 months.

"You have got to be kidding me. Sounds like the 19th century."

"No, I'm not. We have to wait until the exam is over."

They had done everything except having intercourse.

It was one of the longest periods that Jack had gone without having sex.

Elizabeth was surprised that there was very little if any pain when had sex.

Afterward, the pair were lying in bed together. Jack had his arm around her and they were coddled up close.

"I was told that it would be very, very painful sex if it was done before marriage, and there would be some pain the first time you had sex in marriage.

"That was to discourage you from having sex, dear. The intense pain comes into being usually because of guilt or reluctance to have sex or fear of it (sometimes it's other reasons but for the most part it's guilt and fear) which you seem to have neither which does surprise me, but again sometimes you are full of surprises."

Elizabeth drifted off to sleep and wake up around 2:00 am. Jack was still awake and didn't want to wake her.

"Can't sleep. Do you want to do it again?" said Jack looking at her in a mischievous manner.

"Why not."

After getting up at 8:00 am Elizabeth put on a white dress. Jack couldn't stop laughing.

"Trying to play a virgin, Elizabeth. It's not going to work because you are no longer one. Wait till I tell everyone about it. You will be glowing for quite a while.

Elizabeth folded her arms and looked at him. She was very annoyed with him.

"You wouldn't dare."

"No, I wouldn't. I don't want to be put in jail by your dad which if he could, he probably would."

"He doesn't know anything about us, and Will doesn't know."

A couple of hours later, Elizabeth was sitting at the First Baptist Church of Tampa with her parents.

Everyone commented on how glowing she looked.

"It very important for young women today to be sexual pure. It's important to their families and to society. Young women get hurt emotionally, mentally when they have sex outside of marriage."

It was all Elizabeth could do not to roll her eyes. She just smiled defiantly. She felt some soreness from having sex but it was wasn't that bad.

The next day it was all Elizabeth could do not to think about being with Jack. She couldn't wait until the next time they...

She came back to reality and the continued listening to the recording of Will and her father talking about her.

"Are you serious Will. I can't believe...

"Yes, she told me that she was Governor. She took one of those over the counter pregnancy testers."

"Great this all I need...

Elizabeth turned off the cassette recorder. She remembered the day she found out she was pregnant.