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"What?" I ask with a lump in my throat. "Megan."

"Were you even going to tell anyone?" Chris asks, but Megan doesn't answer. "And how did you not know?" He asks turning to me.

"How was I supposed to know Christian? It's not like I was there." I answer slightly irritated by his question.

"It wasn't rape." Megan whispers. "Please I don't want to make a big deal out of this."

"Then what was it!" Christian shouts hitting the table with his fist, making the both of us jump. "Did you agree to it? Did you say yes? Did you want to?"

"No." Megan says. Her voice is small and probably scared. Damn I kind of am too.

"Christian please take it easy." I plead. "Megan talk to me. What exactly happened?" I ask taking her hands from her lap, but she doesn't answer.

"Honey..." Chris says walking over to her. He sits on the chair in front of her and moves a lock of hair out of her face. He puts his hand behind her neck and continues. "We can't help you if you don't talk to us."

"But maybe I don't want help." Megan says looking up into my eyes.

"What do you mean?" I ask softly.

"Maybe I'm happy right now and I don't want all the drama. Can't we just leave things like they are?" She now sobs.

"Because Megan, nobody should get away with something like this." Chris says turning his hand into a fist behind her neck, getting some of her hair in it without hurting her.

"I never said he raped me you know. I might not have agreed to it, but I never said no. I didn't tell him to stop. So maybe it was my fault. Maybe I gave him the wrong idea." She cries.

"You're not blaming yourself for this. Are you?" I ask and she shrugs. "Megan it's not your fault. You didn't ask for it."

"I don't know. It was just fucking horrible. It hurt so bad and he didn't even care. All he said the whole time was 'hush baby. It'll be over soon'" she says shivering at her last words as the tears keep coming.

The sounds of glass shattering against the wall startles us and we turn to look in that direction.
"If I catch that mother fucker he fucking won't make it. I'll kill him with my fucking bare hands." Chris shouts storming out of the kitchen and out of the house.

"This is why I was scared to tell him. I don't even remember calling him and what I said." Megan says. Her lips are trembling.

"Don't worry about him. He needs some time alone to calm down. Let's hope he doesn't come across that boy, cause I'm not sure if he knows that people can't get bailed out for murder." I say earning a smile from Megan. "Why didn't you tell me Meg?"

"I was scared of your reactions and how you'd look at me after you knew. I tried to tell you a few times and I knew you'd listen to me and comfort me, but then I just chickened out and spoke about something else.... cause I was that scared."

"Oh Megan..." I say kissing her on her forehead.

"Can we please stop talking about this tho? It's not easy talking to people I love about it." She pleads.

"We'll drop it for now if you promise to talk openly about it to someone. Chris is supposed to take us out later." I say at the same moment that I hear some noice entering the kitchen.

My mom and Drew enter the kitchen while having a what seems to be a steamy conversation.

Megan wipes her face clean before they notice anything and puts a smile on her face.

"Chan. Is it true that babies get delivered by big birds?" Drew asks running towards me. She jumps onto my lap and looks up at me, waiting for an answer.

"Uhh I guess..." I say looking up at my mom who shrugs.

"That's not true." Megan says. "Babies are conceived when a man and a woman make love."

"What does make love mean?" Drew asks.

"That's another way of saying a man and a woman ha..." Megan starts but I cut her off quickly before she finishes that sentence.

"Drew, you want ten bucks?" I say rushed, cause I know Megan is up to no good. She's trying to cheer herself up by frustrating me. And even though I'd love to see her cheered up, I don't want her to feed Drew all of that.

"Yeah sure." Drew exclaims, forgetting what we were talking about.

"Go get my purse. It's in my room." I say and she runs out of the kitchen. I turn to Megan who's dying of laughter and say "I'm gonna kill you."

My mom looks at us, shakes her head and continues unpacking the groceries. She clearly ignored the broken glass on the floor. Why the hell was she talking about babies to Drew anyway?

***

After a few hours I call Chris to hear from him. He sounds a lot calmer than he was before he left the house.

He came home to pick us up and we went shopping around for some time.

Right now he and Sean are just complaining about this taking too long as we walk through the mall.

"You're shopping with three women babe what'd you expect?" I ask and Chris sighs.

Megan moves closer to him and puts an arm around his waist. Chris smiles and puts his around her.

"You still mad at me?" Megan ask softly.

"I wasn't mad at you Meg. Even if I was, you know my anger doesn't last. I just wish you'd be more open about everything and not be so scared to talk to me." Chris says.

"I'm not scared. Sometimes I just don't know how to start talking about certain things. I'll try harder tho." Megan says looking up at him.

"That's my girl." Chris smiles and kisses her on top of her head.

Drew pulls her hand out of mine and runs towards Chris to hold his other hand.

"Really?" I ask. "So nobody wants to hold my hand? Everybody wants to hold my boyfriend's hand. Okay... fine." I pout causing them to laugh at me.

"I'll hold your hand." Sean says and takes my hand.

"You're too sweet." I say giving his warm hand a little squeeze.

We go into a boutique and Megan tries some clothes on, turning Christian and Drew into her judges. Sean and I just walk around looking at random things in silence.

"Those two really have great connection." Sean says breaking the silence between us.

"Yeah they do. Always been that way. Even before she was born." I say.

"How? I always thought he was her biological brother." Sean says. I look at him and notice that he's trying to make me talk about the two.

"Well. Christian used to sneak out of the house when he was younger and he'd always go to Megan's mom. He liked that woman a lot. His parents gave up trying to stop him after they noticed that even their highly secured home couldn't stop him. Every time Christian visited, Megan would kick. That might have been a coincidence though.  I don't know. He always wanted a little sister named Megan, but his parents died before they could give him one. So he always called Megan by her name before she was born."

"Wow that's cool. So Megan's mom just went ahead and named her that because Christian wanted that?" Sean asks

"Sort of. It was more because of the connection they had. After the ultrasound the doctors said it was going to be a boy, but Christian kept believing that it was a girl, which would be his little sister and eventually it was a girl. The mother didn't have another girl's name in mind, so Megan and Christiana it was. I was always so jealous of Chris. Whenever he touched the baby bump Megan would kick or love around, but when I did... Nothing. After she was born she'd laugh every time Chris played with her, but when I did...meh.. not as much. Her first words were 'bye bye Chris' or something very close to that. I believe I still have that tape stored away somewhere."

"That's mindblowing. I guess God found another way to give him his sister." Sean says amazed. "But why Megan tho? Of all the names."

"I'm not sure. I think it was from a movie or a book or something. I can't really remember. We were four years old so yeah." I say.

"No wonder she loves you two so much. You've been in the picture her whole life. She always has a lot to say about you two. About when she was younger and the things you guys did, but she never spoke about this." Sean says.

"Oh?" I ask looking at him with one eyebrow raised. Megan talks about us? And since when did they get so close? He turns red when he looks at my face.

"Yeah... we talk on the phone sometimes." He says.

He gets saved when Chris calls my name and I turn to look at him. "Lets go babe." He says.

We drop Megan off first. When we drop her off, we see someone that hasn't been around for a long time. Four years to be exact.

Her father.
"Daddy?"
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