Sharon is willing to try just about anything to save her relationship with Tyke, but whenever they talk, they argue. She tries a new approach, with some success, but even that strays off course. Maybe they're just not meant to be together. It's probably a stretch to call it a romantic story, but I've been itching to try something in that genre.
Peter, a shy 15 year-old boy, stumbles into a humiliating time of his own unintended making. This happens early in the school year, a sort of sissy-hazing that last a long time.
"I talked to Kent," he said. "I think I talked him out of the resisting charge..." My eyes went wide. I'd forgotten that. I opened my mouth to talk, but he spoke first. "So," he said, "this your first arrest?"
A groom gets dumped at the airport when his new wife runs off with another man before their honeymoon flight. Heartbroken, he asks his mother-in-law to come along instead, and she reluctantly agrees.