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CHAPTER 3: Zander Confides in Lucky

Zander and Lucky get settled in the sitting area. They wait for a group of doctors to walk by.

"So Zander what do you want to tell me?" asked Lucky.

"Today I ran into my brother's ex-girlfriend. Actually she was the girl who I was totally devoted to when were growing up. Her name is Beth Smith, she's a doctor here a General Hospital, she's the same age as us and she told me that she has something to tell me." said Zander.

"Do you have any idea what it is?"

"I don't know, I left home right after my brother Pete killed himself on the hunting trip. I thought that I accidentally killed him, or at least everyone blamed me for it. But Pete was going through a lot with Beth and he was accepted to University for engineering, he was really smart. It's a shame."

"So what was going on between your brother and Beth?"

"That's the problem, I don't know what went on between my brother and Beth. All I know is that she wanted him to accept to the University in Hamilton instead of going to somewhere farther away. He wanted to go farther north, to a University in one of the mining towns so he can get more practical engineering experience."

"So she didn't want him to go and he didn't want to stay?"

"Yup."

"You said you were devoted to her. Did that have any effect on anyone?"

"Of course me, but no one knew that I loved Beth. Things changed between Beth and I after the prom. I didn't go but she and Pete did."

"C'mon Zander, there is something that you're still not telling me."

"Yes there is something I'm not telling you, but you have to promise to not tell Emily or anyone else."

"I promise."

"The day before the prom my brother kept going on and on about how he was finally going to have sex with Beth. But she kept telling everyone else that she was going to wait until she was in a committed relationship. Pete on the other hand thought that one year was long enough. The prom was held at the hotel that was closest to our high school, my brother rented a room without Beth knowing. After a few hours there he tells her that he loves her and wants to go to the room to talk. She goes with him up to the hotel room and..."

"Did he rape her?"

"She told me she liked it at first but then she ran out of the room, luckily with her dress on, and made her way to my house. I was home alone, my parents decided to go on a weekend getaway, and Beth showed up crying. She told me that she and Pete and her were having sex but she couldn't go through with it and ran away, she didn't say that he raped her. Beth loved my brother too much to do that to him."

"So then what happened? Did your brother come back to find her?"

"He didn't come back to find Beth, I didn't see him until 2:00 the next day. Beth stayed at my house the whole night. She and I talked and then.."

"Then what Zander?"

"Let's just say what Beth couldn't go through with my brother, she went through with me."

"You mean your brother's girlfriend cheated on him with you?"

"Yes. Beth wanted it, I wanted it. We used protection. She and I didn't regret anything. Then a week before our hunting trip Beth told Pete that she was two months pregnant."