The Cover Up Part Eleven

Rick thought about how he had been trying to turn his life around during the last six months. Before this incident he thought that he had made a pretty good start. Rick had stopped drinking about a year ago. He had been a heavy drinker for most of his adult life. Rick fell in love with alcohol when he was sixteen years old and was a junior hockey player. Rick was the team's under age star goalie and he made his team look much better than they actually were. They won many games that they should have lost because of the near impossible saves that Rick would make. Often his team would need to score only two or three goals to win a game. As Rick was a big favorite with his teammates it wasn't long before they were taking him along to their post game parties where heavy drinking was the name of the game. It wasn't long before his teammates discovered that not only was Rick a great goalie, he was also a young kid who could really knock back the beer. At this first stage of his drinking career Rick still didn't know what a hangover was. The drinking parties didn't appear to do anything detrimental to Rick's ability to play at a high skill level at his hockey games.

These had been good times for Rick and it was not until much later in his drinking career that alcohol became a problem for him.

Rick had been legally separated for about eighteen months now and a divorce was in the works. Rick felt very guilty that he had been the one to cause the break up of his marriage. After all he was the one who had the affair. At least