"I am a fool," Cappie announces to the room and runs his hands down his face, stretching the skin at his frustration. "I kissed Casey."
Wade immediately crashes his car at Cappie's announcement. Dropping the controller into his lap he twists his body around to look at the president over the back of the couch.
"You did what?"
"I kissed Casey."
"What?" Beaver asks as he spits out the dry Fruit Loops he had just shoved into his mouth after walking back into the living room.
"I kissed Casey."
"Casey? Casey Cartwright, Casey?" Keith asks in disbelief.
"Why?" Rusty asks, looking up from his physics book. Usually, Rusty didn't study at the Kappa Tau house but with Dale holding a Purity Pledge meeting and the library shut down for renovation to stop the amount of sex occurring the library stacks, Rusty had no choice.
"Do you really want me to answer that, Spitter?"
"Uh, no," Rusty is quick to respond. "Gross."
Mumbling, he gets up and heads to another room.
"Why did you kiss her?" Wade asks but shakes his head before Cappie can answer. "No, don't tell me. I don't want to know."
"You don't have some creepy fetish for pregnant women, do you?" Heath asks him.
"Hey, as long as she's a 'MILF'," Beaver starts.
"No," Cappie says as he sits down where Rusty had been sitting. "God, no. And Beav, don't ever call Casey a 'MILF'."
Beaver shrugs his shoulders and shoves more Fruit Loops into his mouth.
"I thought you didn't care about being with her as long as you get to be a dad," Heath states.
"Yeah, but since she's giving the baby up and all, that's no…"
"She's doing what?" Cappie asks trying to keep a level head in case he didn't hear Wade right.
"Giving the baby up for…You didn't know?" Wade asks. "I thought you knew."
"Obviously, not," Heath mumbles.
"Where did you hear this?" Cappie demands rising to his feet.
"Rusty, man," Wade says. "Sorry, I thought you…"
"Spitter!" Cappie yells as he wonders around the house.
"Yeah?" Rusty asks from behind Cappie.
"Is your sister…is she…is Casey giving the baby up?" Cappie asks and Rusty diverts his gaze. "Tell me the goddamn truth, Spitter."
"Yeah. That's what she told my parents."
"Casey!" Cappie yells as he opens the front door of the ZBZ house. "Casey!"
"Cappie?" Casey asks from her place behind the podium in the dinning room as all eyes in the room fixate on him.
"What's he doing here?" One of the girls hisses to another.
"What are you doing here, Cappie?" Casey asks as she shifts from one foot to another.
"Where you just not going to tell me?" He asks as he jabs his own chest with his finger.
"Sunday, we're helping out at Cyprus Memorial Hospital at two o'clock. Don't be late," Casey says and then slams her gravel. "Meeting adjourned."
Leaving her stuff on the podium for Ashleigh to collect, Casey grabs his sleeve.
"You. Come with me."
She pulls him out of the house through the front door and turns to face him.
"Was I not going to tell you what?" She asks, her tone bordering on annoyance.
"That you're giving the baby up for adoption," he yells back at her.
"When…Where…How did you find out?" She stammers out before the realization hits her. "Did Rusty tell you?"
"What does it matter who told me? You're giving my baby away!"
"Giving your baby away?" She yells back at him. "You don't even know if it's your baby."
"Come off of it, Case. Deep down, you know it's mine."
"No, I don't," she counters.
"Yes, you do. We were spontaneous. You and Evan? Not spontaneous. Evan would never forget a condom. Wouldn't want something like this to stain his future political career."
"And what about me? What about you? This isn't like the latest version of Grand Theft Auto. You can't be a dad religiously for six weeks and then toss it to the side when it gets boring. I have plans, Cappie. I have dreams. I want to do more with my life than be a teen mom."
"So you're giving the baby away to strangers so you won't be a teen mom? That's the most selfish thing I've ever heard."
"That's not fair," Casey says as Cappie retreats down the path.
"Is Cappie here?" Casey asks Wade after he opens the front door. She had decided to let Cappie cool off after yesterday's confrontation and she had arrived this morning at the KT house in order to explain her reason for choosing adoption better.
"He's…indisposed right now."
"I know he's mad at me, Wade, but I really need to…" Casey trails off as she hears Rebecca's familiar voice. Wade tries to step out of the house and shut the door behind him but Casey shoves the door open. Rebecca pulls a shirtless Cappie down the stairs behind her and they both freeze when they see Casey's face.
"Big sis," Rebecca calls as she ascends the stairs. "What are you doing here?"
"Wh…what are you doing her, Bex?"
"Rebecca and I are back together," Cappie tells her as she comes to a stop besides Rebecca.
"You're…you're what?"
"We're dating," rbecca drawls out slowly as if Casey is four-years-old.
"Oh," Casey whispers and watches with wide eyes as Rebecca kisses Cappie in the foyer of the Kappa Tau house.
"I'll see you later," Rebecca tells Cappie as she slips out of the house.
"What can I do for you, Casey?" Cappie asks her.
"Uh, nothing. I have…I have to go," she mumbles and turns to leave.
Rushing past Rebecca, who's waiting on the porch, Casey manages to get all the way to the safety of her room before she can no longer hold in the tears.
"So much for safety net."
Cappie didn't mean to wind up in bed with Rebecca Logan. And not like Evan didn't mean to. He really didn't mean to. But he had been upset. Which is really no excuse. But Casey's giving away the baby.
Her baby.
His baby.
And Casey may deny it. Deny that he's father. But come on.
Casey and he were spontaneous. She was drunk. She had purposely lost the pool game. And he, he was hoping that it would end in his favor.
And he can't even remember putting on a condom. The first time.
Or the second.
Or the third.
Evan?
Evan has never been spontaneous. Never. About the most spontaneous he has ever done was when he grew out a beard, a puberty patch, and tried to pledge Kappa Tau. And even then, he had wound up depledging and crawling back to Omega Chi.
Which is where he belonged in the first place.
But the Evan Cappie knew, the Evan everyone knew would never forget a condom. Wouldn't want something like this to stain his future political career. Oh, it was alright for him to pull a Monica-under-the-desk or a Happy-Birthday-From-Marilyn but an unwanted pregnancy, a knocked up college girlfriend?
Not okay. And yet, Cappie had crawled into bed with Rebecca. Which he considered inexcusable. But he was angry. And the entire time his thoughts were consumed with Casey.