“I really feel like an ass. I’m so sorry for not being open with you. I’m sorry for bringing up your, um…promiscuous months after your divorce... especially when you were so honest with me about them. You’re right though, both of our marriages struggled with poor communication, and I can’t believe how quickly I was willing to let that happen again.” Patrick lifts and turns me so that I’m straddling his lap facing him. He gently cups my face with one hand, looking at me with such intensity my skin. A city official found with a large sum of unexplained cash always raises questions, and with good reason. Clearly, I have no clue why it’s there. If I’d put it there myself, why would I call the police to remove and examine it for me?”Em stared at him for a second before the wind launched another couple hundred dollar bills into the air and she rushed to grab them. “Uh, because you realized you wouldn’t be able to hide it any longer and needed a convenient way to cover your ass?”“That’s also. I hid out in there till I heard the men leave, then thinking all was well I emerged from my room and headed to the kitchen to say hi. I walked into the kitchen to catch my mom and Terry standing there buck naked, sperm all smeared into their pubes. "Well, did you have a good time watching us?" mom said to me. "Gee Ben, all you had to do was ask and we would let you sit in" was Terry's reply.I was uneasy and replied "You girls busted me, dad and I got into a fight so I came over here and did not. The most alarming of the pregnancies was a 10-year old girl who showed no signs of any sexual contact. The doctors little investigation even revealed that few of the girls under 16 had ever experience vaginal intercourse.The doctor wrote some reports and spoke to city council members on the subject, but the plan was to try to deal with things locally. The town had seen its share of trials over the past hundred years; it could certainly survive a small baby boom. Maybe a population spike would.