A few days after the party, I woke up to a text message from Claire. She said to meet her up at the park again. She had somthing to say to me. When I got there it wasn't Claire suprisingly, but Todd. "She put you up to this?" I guessed. "No, I wanted to talk to you and apologize." "Really?" I said, still unsure to trust him. "Yeah. Trust me." he said sincerely. "Okay. So, I forgive you, I guess..." I wasn't the type to hold a grudge. "No, let me make it up to you. Claire told me you wanted to be a show producer? I'm I right?" he asked "Yeah." I replied. "My company can help you with it?" "Really?" "Yep. So I'm I forgiven?" "Yeah, this is great!" I said. "Okay great." he said. Then his phone started ringing. "Oh gotta get this!" he said and started talking about buissness stuff. "Okay, sorry I have a meeting and got to go. But meet me a David Lanes the bowling place?" "Sure." I replied "So, Thursday around 2. We can bowl and discuss on how I can help you out. Sound good?" "Sounds terrific! See you then!" He drove off and I actualy though he was a nice guy. I still can't believe I thought that. I sure didn't think that the day we went bowling.

When I arrived at the bowling lanes I met up with Todd. "So whats up, Freeman?" Todd said. "Its going pretty good, so, uh lets get ready to bowl, huh?" I repiled nervously. I did'nt want to blow my chance. Once we started I kind of got to see some of Todds harsher sides. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE MY SIZE!" he yelled when the casheer didn't have his size in bowling shoes. "My God, this is the worst service I have ever seen." And when he shoved a guy for bumping him on accident, he went ballistic "Jeez, are you people blind? Must have some brain-damage if you can't see with your OWN TWO EYES!" Things for me were not going to go as I expected.

So when we finally got to bowl, we did chat about getting to show worked on, but we strayed off, got some drinks (well he did, I drink rarely) and started talking about our relationships. "So, I bet Claires really happy with you, huh?" I asked. "Yep, the gal sure is. Sure is fine to, heh. I suppose you two had somthing going on before huh?" He said.  "Oh, o-oh no." I replied, stuttering. "Heh, just friends." "Oh, just wondering..." he said. "So it must be pretty cool working out in the bigger part of the city, right?" I asked, trying to get away from the subject. "Oh yeah, its much bigger." He said. "the great thing is, I'm only home 4 days a week, so Claire dosn't know what I'm up to. Hah! It's classic." he said woozily. I thought he was getting a bit drunk so I decided we had to leave, but I still needed to know more. "So, your cheating on her?" I asked. "I guess you could say that, hahah." he laughed. I couldn't believe it. I just couldn't believe it. He gets to marry one of the most beautiful, smart, loving woman in the world, just to go off and go some other woman. "You've got to be joking..." I whispered to myself. You've got to be joking.

I got up. I just couldn't believe this. "Yeah, but don't tell 'er, alright?" he said, laughing. I just walked away. "Hey? Were you goin'?" he asked. I sighed, walked out and got into my car.
"Hey, HEY!" he yelled. I started my car ad drove off. I didn't care what could happen to him, I just needed to tell Claire. I needed to tell her about Todd. I knew it would break her heart, but I had to. A part of me was acutaly happy that this happend. But then I thought of what Claire would feel. Is this the right thing? Or just the thing that would make me happy?


I wasn't sure what to do so I decided to just think it over. I felt bad at first but got upset again. I was so confused I had no idea what to do. Jeez, I thought. I thought my life was complicated before. And now, thats how I got into this mess. 

I dozed off and next thing I know it woke up on the sofa. I just felt so useless. I decided that there was nothing I could do. Because I would feel horrible if I were to break up Claires marriage. So, the next thing I did was get up, turn on the Xbox, and started to play Chris's favorite game. Call of Halo 4: Gears of Black Ops. "Hey John, hear about that snake who escaped from some lab... What the heck are you doing?!" Chris yelled. "I've given up..." I said. "What are you talking about?" Chris asked. So I told him. Everything. I just spilled out all my frustration, saddness and anger. "So your giving up?" "Yeah." "Without a fight?" "Yeah" "Just like that?" "Yeah..." "You are pathetic. Your so stupid, just giving up like that! If you really love her you would stop her from marrying that jerk! If I were you I'd go up to him and punch 'em in the face! You just can't let things like that slip! Your not the John I know! The John I know is a hard-working, stubborn guy who dosn't let anything push him around! Get up." Chris said. I never even knew he could talk like that. "Look man. Your a good friend. Even if I am an annoyin pain in the a-" "Look Chris," I said with a slight smile on ny face "Thanks. And you know what? Were going to stop that idiot from marrying Claire." "See thats the John I know dude." he said. So, whos up to crash a wedding?"