In all the years we had been friends, that was the most I had ever heard come out of his mouth when he wasn't talking about his x-wife. Tran came over... and sat in my lap smiling."I think it is time for us old folks to go to bed. Since I am a visitor, where do I sleep Harry?"I looked at her in shock and almost broke my own neck trying to twist around to hug her before she could get away."You are sleeping with me because I might have a relapse, and if you were too far away I might not recover.". ..I replied noticing she looked a little nervous telling me that.Later that night I logged onto facebook to check my messages and I noticed that my mom changed her profile name to Amanda "BULL RIDER" Newton, instead of the "MAD DOG" nickname that her volleyball friends gave her. Her volleyball teammates were posting on her wall asking why she changed it. I wanted to know too so I asked her why she changed her nickname and she replied..."I just wanted a change"... I replied back..."have you ever. ”“I thought you might enjoy that more than beer,” Adam answered.That was very thoughtful of you to remember I prefer wine over beer. You were very confident that I would come tonight.”“I put the odds at 50-50 that you would not come. But hey, I was not going to pass up a 50% chance that we would see you here again.”Adam opened the wine and filled a plastic cup half full and handed it to me. Terry announced she wanted to try the wine. Adam gave her a half cup full too. The boys and Olivia each. We both stopped almost immediately and looked at Jason with wide, surprised, “deer caught in the headlights” eyes. “Found yourself a new lover already, huh?” He continued. “Well, you better get up here fast, Jer” (Jason started calling me “Jer” when we were together last year, and I called him “Jay”, because we loved each other so passionately at the time that calling each other by our full names didn’t seem right). “I could see Mrs. Cameron getting that look in her eyes; like the one she gets.
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