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Trials of Love Rewrite: Chapter 28

Explanations

Anger filled me as Adam's words sunk in. How could Julie and Adam betray me like this? Especially Julie. She fed me all of that crap about loving me when she was really shacking it up with Banksie. How could I have been so blind?

"I'll need to take the three of you down to the station for some questioning.." The first officer told us, bringing me out of my thoughts. My handcuffs were removed and the three of us were escorted out to the cop car.

"How could you do this to me man?" I yelled across Julie and at Adam.

"I can't help it. I still have feelings for Julie. I tried to suppress them, but I couldn't." He told me.

When we arrived at the police station, the officers left Julie and I alone together, while they spoke privately with Adam. I took this time as a chance to find out what the hell was going on.

"How could you do this to me?" I yelled at Julie. Tears were flowing from her eyes, but I didn't care. She had hurt me and I wanted her to know that.

"I didn't mean to. It just happened.

"How the hell does sex just happen?" I yelled at her, knowing full well that it was hypocritical of me to do so. After all, Julie and I hadn't exactly planned to make love.

"If I knew I would tell you, but I don't. It was an accident, Scooter." She yelled back at me. "I didn't mean for any of this to happen."

"But it did." I snapped.

"I said I was sorry." Julie cried. "Adam and I are very close and things got a little out of hand."

"A little out of hand is an accidental kiss, not accidentally having sex." I yelled.

"Okay so it was a little more than a little out of control." Julie admitted. "I told you I was sorry. What more do you want from me?"

"I want to know when this happened."

"It was right after we had the fight over the diary." Julie answered as she wiped the tears from her eyes.

"Was it only that one time?"

"Yes. It was just that one time and I wish that it never happened."

"How did it happen?"

"I needed someone to comfort me after our fight and Adam was the one who was there."

"Do you love him?" I asked bitterly.

"Of course I love him." This was not the answer I was wanting to hear. "I love him just like I love the rest of the ducks, as a friend. Nothing less, nothing more."

"What am I supposed to say here?" I asked. "You betrayed me. Am I supposed to just forget that this ever happened?"

"Hopefully, you will forgive me." Julie told me. "I know your angry because I went against what I said. I lost my virginity to Adam after I told you I wanted to wait until marriage." What the hell is she talking about? She never said either of those things and she was defiantly a virgin when we had sex.

"Julie, what are you talking…" I started, but was cut off by Julie.

"I just hope that you will forgive me." She repeated.

I was about to answer when the officers returned with Adam. "The three of you are free to go. The lie detector proved your friends story to be true. But you better understand that when that baby is born, there will be a paternity test." He looked directly at me. "And if you are the father, you will be arrested."

I wanted to pound Adam then and there, but I waited until we got outside. "I have two things to say. "One." I pointed towards Adam. "I am going to pound you." I then looked towards Julie. "And two, what the hell were you talking about in there?"

"Not here." Julie answered, dragging me away. "Let's go to the park and we will talk."

The three of us arrived at the park twenty minutes later. "Now will someone tell me what the hell is going on here so I can pound Adam?"

"Hopefully after you hear what I have to say you won't be pounding anyone." Julie stated.

"What could you possibly have to say that would keep me from killing Adam?" I asked. "And what the hell was all that stuff you said?"

"I never slept with Adam." Julie stated.

"The boy passed a lie detector test that said that he did." I shot back.

"I lied." Adam stated.

"If you had lied, then the test would have caught it and I would be in jail." I told him, grabbing his shirt.

"Not really." he stated calmly. "I am a great liar. The way a lie detector test catches you is that it shows the changes in your vitals when you lie. When you lie, your nervousness catches up with you and thus your vitals change. However, if you are a calm person, such as myself, you can get away with it. I'm not a nervous kind of guy, so I easily lied and got away with it"

"But what about those things you said in there earlier?" I let go of Adam and turned my attention to Julie. "Why didn't you just tell me all of this stuff then?"

"Why do you think Scooter. The police were listening to us." Julie told me.

"They were?" I asked. How did I miss that?

"Hello, Scooter," she hit me lightly on the back of the head. "Didn't you notice the big mirror in the room?"

"Yeah. So?" I asked, still not quite seeing what she was getting at.

Julie rolled her eyes at me. "It was a two sided mirror. The police sit on the other side and watch what you do."

"Oh." I answered, starting to feel relieved. "If you two didn't sleep together, then why would you do this for me?" I asked Adam.

"Because I owed you for getting me off the Varsity team." He answered.

"How did you know it was me?"

"Coach Wilson told me." He explained.

"Thanks man." I told him reaching out my hand. "I'm sorry I yelled and tried to kill you."

"It's okay." he told me. "I would have done the same thing."

"And I'm sorry I yelled at you too." I told Julie as I kissed her lightly on the lips.

"It's okay. It only made it that much more believable." She told me.

We started walking back towards school. "Wait a minute. They are going to figure this out when I take the paternity test and it turns out that I am the father. I'll be in jail for statutory rape and Adam will be there for lying to the police."

"They can't prove that I didn't sleep with Julie. And as for you, this gives you eight months to come up with something." Adam told me.

"Yeah, I guess." I answered. He had a point. I just hoped that I would be able to come up with something that would keep me out of jail.

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