Page 45 of A Second Chance At Forever

Now, she’s returned and I lost my chance.

I finished my beer and chucked it over the railing. I opened another beer when I heard someone walk in the house and yell my name. It was Dane.

“Up here.”

He found me slouched down in my chair, holding onto a bottle of Jack and a beer.

“What’s wrong?” he asked, snatching the bottle from me and pulling a chair up beside mine.

“Nicole thinks she’s fucking pregnant.”

“What?” Dane asked, after taking a drink of Jack.

“I went out with Lennox the other day. We got carried away and one thing led to another and we ended up sleeping together. I was going to break up with Nicole tonight. That’s when she dropped the “I think I’m pregnant” bomb. I don’t know how I keep fucking this up. What am I going to do?”

“I don’t know about that one. Girls can fuck you up. Guess who was with Lennox tonight?”

I shrugged.

“Alissa.” Dane took another drink before passing back the bottle.

“Alissa? As in, your first love, Alissa? The one that broke your heart and turned you into a pathetic mess, Alissa?”

“That’s the one.” He nodded.

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