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"Anastasia, wait!" called Alex. It was too late; she had fled down the stairs.

"Let her be" said a voice behind her "Besides I think you owe me an explanation."

"I'm amazed your so calm." said Alex unable to look in his eyes "Before I explain can we go somewhere a little more private?"

"Well yelling at you isn't something I fancy on doing. Ok, umm what about your place?"

After a silent 20-minute car ride, they where in Alex's living room.

"Do you want something to drink?" asked Alex

"No" said Bobby "I want you to talk"

"Ok" breathed Alex "20 years ago I found out my best friend had killed her self. I was offered counseling and all that shit but I didn't want it. So I went to a bar"

"The Owl and the Pussy cat" said Bobby

"You remembered?" Alex was surprised.

"Of course"

"Anyway, I was drowning my sorrows in a Gin and tonic, when you showed up. While I was talking to you, I could forget all the bullshit that was going on. To me, you where everything I wanted. Someone who would actually listen to what I have to say, someone who could let me be me. Maybe it was the alcohol I don't know. So we talked until they kicked us out. You asked me to come back to your place, I said yes and we had sex.

I left early in the morning, you looked so peaceful lying there, and I didn't want to wake you. 6 weeks later I found out I was pregnant. I went over to your apartment, but the lady downstairs said you had moved. She didn't have your new address. Nine months later I gave birth."

"What about your family, didn't they ask who the father was?"

"Yes they wanted to know. I told them it was a result of a one-night stand and they accepted it. It was hard; luckily I graduated from the academy when I was three months pregnant. I got a job at a supermarket part time."

"Alexandra Eames a checkout chick! I wish I could have seen that!"

"Yes, well. A couple of months later I met David. We fell in love and I moved into his place three months after we met. We got married shortly after. When Anastasia was five, David was killed. When he died I had a nervous breakdown. Anastasia went to live with my parents and I tried to get better. She was the only good thing in my life. If it wasn't for her…. I don't know what would have happened"

"What about when we became partners? How come you've never told me before now?" said Bobby.

TBC

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