Chapter 297: Scott Family Secrets

Monday, January 30th, Evening

Trin watched as Ivy tried to figure out the Scott Family Tree. Oh, poor little lamb, Trin thought, you don't know what you're in for. The Scott Family is a tree with many branches and not all related to the other one in the same way. Ashlyn's too nice to explain it to you since she's owed most of her life to the Scott Family. Izzy, well, she's wholesale built her identity around being part of the Scott Family. Trin knew that she's the only one at this table that would share warts and all.

"Then who?" Ivy asked, confused.

"Candi," Izzy said evenly.

"Candi? The doctor, she's the oldest," Ivy said, not making the connection.

"Yes, you're correct," Izzy said, "She's the oldest."

"Wouldn't that make her your age, Ashlyn?" Ivy asked.

"No, Candi's a year younger than me," Ashlyn said.

"So, how does that work, is she's Keith's twin?" Ivy asked.

"No," Izzy said and shook her head, "You missed a key thing in Rerun's story."

"Which would be?" Ivy asked, almost defensive.

"Candi had her mom's last name Strauss," Izzy said.

"What was Keith's mom's last name?" Ivy asked.

"Sawyer," Izzy said.

"Isn't that the name of their youngest sister?" Ivy asked.

"She took her name from her mom's maiden name," Izzy said.

"So, what is going on here with that story being about Candi?" Ivy asked.

Now's my time to step in here, Trin thought. Trin leaned forward and looked at Ivy. The two women locked gazes. "Let me explain to you something about the Scott Family," Trin said.

Ivy nodded, "Okay," she said.

Trin sat back and looked over the table. With a shrug, Trin moved about her beer glass around the table. "So, there were three kids, Lucas, Nathan, and Angela. They all have different sets of parents; Lucas and Nathan share a dad, while Lucas and Angela share a mom. Angela and Nathan share no common parents. Angela's dad is also Lucas and Nathan's uncle," she said.

"Does this remind you of something on Jerry Springer or Maury?" Ivy asked.

"Yeah, it could be," Izzy said.

"Well, Nathan married his wife in high school. His wife also happens to Lucas's best friend. How, you might ask? Nathan was legally emancipated from his parents, and Haley's parents weirdly signed off on this. Their senior year, they had their oldest son, James. Yes, Ashlyn's husband, but there is nothing easy or clean. Nathan ended up going to college at the University of Maryland and got drafted by the Detroit Pistons. That lasted a season before he was traded to Los Angeles Lakers, which is still a head-scratcher to this day. Haley had a music career, and they became the power couple in Los Angeles. This happened especially after Haley's music career took off. They had another son by then, Brian. As the story goes, Haley forgot Brian's birthday and quit music because of it, but the damage was already done," Trin said.

"Wow!" Ivy said.

"Don't you come up for breath?" Ashlyn asked.

"Why do you ask?" Trin asked.

"You'd seem popular with your dates," Ashlyn said.

"So, that explains Nathan, doesn't help with Kay," Ivy said.

"I'm getting there," Trin said.

"Well, let's get there," Izzy said.

"As for Lucas, he's older than Nathan by three months. His uncle and mom raised him. He dated my mom in high school; later, after they broke up, he dated his wife, Peyton. After high school, Peyton went to California. Lucas and Peyton tried to stay together, but they broke up. Lucas later met and started a relationship, and someway she ended up pregnant, and they were to be married. She left him at the altar. Lucas got back together with Peyton someway, and she turned up pregnant as well. They got married, and Candi was born in New York City; four months later, Keith was born in Chapel Hill. Once Lucas graduated college, they moved to New York City. There was when the twins were born. Peyton seemed to have some mental health issues surface, and a lot of weird shit went down. The family moved to the Atlanta area and thought Candi had died; weird, I know. That's how Candi ended up using her Mom's name," Trin said.

"You forgot Candi was also known as Lynn back then," Izzy said.

"What is this supposed to tell me?" Ivy asked.

"I was wondering myself," Ashlyn said.

"Well, that explains Candi's last name," Trin said.

"But not the fact she changed it back to Scott before med school," Izzy said.

"It just made me more confused," Ivy said.

"Basically, Candi is Lucas' daughter from a previous relationship," Ashlyn said.

"One thing I couldn't get a straight answer is why Candi and Kay don't get along," Ivy said.

"Jealously, on Kay's part," Izzy said.

"What do you mean?" Ivy asked.

"Kay thought that Candi would displace her in her dad's love. Also, she got her first taste of success, and with Candi coming to basketball, she didn't want to lose her prominence on the team," Izzy said.

"Oh, but didn't they make up?" Ivy asked.

"Eventually, they came to some terms, but I don't think they'll ever be as close as the other are with each other," Izzy said.

Trin looked at Izzy with daggers in her eyes. Ivy looked over the two sisters. There's a conflict brewing, and it's clearly felt in the air. Ashlyn looked them over and sighed.

"We're spinning in circles," Ashlyn said.

"What do you mean?" Trin asked.

"You're bitter because of how things went down with Brian," Ashlyn said, looking at Trin.

"I'm not bitter," Trin said.

"Face it, Trin, you wanted Brian all to yourself. He wanted both you and Gabi. You wanted to win against Gabi, and you didn't," Ashlyn said.

"Isn't that a bit harsh, Ashlyn?" Izzy asked.

"No, I'm not; I admitted I was a shit to Huck. Trin left out how she felt about Gabi, and you, Izzy, left out how you treated Keith for two years, and when he showed up with his new girlfriend, you got in a fight with her," Ashlyn said.

"How did you know about that? You were in Atlanta," Izzy said.

"You seem to forget; I'm extremely close with Angela, who is the godmother to Brett as I'm the godmother to Jessi. Also, Angela and Peyton considered each other sisters, not sisters-in-law, sisters," Ashlyn said, "Also, Peyton's Keith's mom."

Izzy nodded, "Angela told you," she said.

"Actually, Peyton told the both of us when we were Skyping. I had a few questions about the condo," Ashlyn said.

"Well, there you go; Izzy's not that pure after all," Trin said.

"Never claimed to be," Izzy said, "Y'all made up that Virgin Izzy shit."

"Well, that's the image you projected," Trin said.

Izzy looked at Ivy, Izzy nodded. "What's on your mind, Ivy?" Izzy asked.

"Adam," Ivy said.

"Adam?" Ashlyn asked.

"My son?" Izzy asked.

"Yeah, he's been brought up several times, but you never talk in much detail about him," Ivy said.

"You want to know about Adam?" Izzy asked.

"I would," Ivy said.

"Oh boy!" Trin said.

Izzy sighed, "Okay," she said and looked at Ashlyn.