About a year and a half has passed since my last contact with Scott.
I am doing fine, still a single parent. I am living in an apartment and working 2 jobs but I am doing everything on my own. I am actually really happy with my life and my routine. Motherhood has definitely changed my life and I am in awe of my son every day for the joy that he brings to me.
I can’t stand when I am working on the weekends and most of the times bring Shane with me. However, I am on call once every 6 months for a hospital and at those times he cannot come with me so my parents keep him. I am bored to tears. There is nothing to do and I can’t for the life of me figure out why I even need to be there when I have so many things I can/should be doing at home.
In a pointless random act of boredness I start cleaning out my purse and my address book falls out. I happen to glance down and see that it was open to Scott’s information. I had often wondered whatever became of him and how he was getting along. I rang his number and there was no answer. To be honest I was a bit relieved because I wouldn’t even know what to say. I did, however, leave a short and sweet message and told him I was on call that day and left my number.
One minute letter as I am pulling out pacifiers and small toys in the process of cleaning out my purse, my office phone rings and it is….(drum roll please) Scott.
He said he was at home but at had been outside with his dog. Oh, he had a dog now I see. That wasn’t all. His company was flourishing and he had brought in a partner and had just built a new house and needed some company at home, thus the dog.
I was happy for him and he proceeded to ask me about myself. I shared with him that I had been extremely busy and sometimes wished I could just go away on a weekend vacation, sleep late, and order room service but other than that – life was great.
We talked for quite a while, him mentioning we should get together soon and I should see his new house and then we said our goodbyes.
As I was packing up to go home, the phone rang again. Undoubtedly, it was Scott again and he just so happened to have a weekend vacation package that he had planned long ago and had decided not to take the person it was originally planned for. Why didn’t he let ME use that ticket??
Hmmm, that was awfully tempting I must admit. I told him I would think about it. It was a vacation to Disneyworld and would only be 2 nights. He said the hotel, meals, and car were pre-paid. How could I say no? I talked to my parents and they said they could keep Shane. I said why not?
About 2 days later, that strange anxiety swept over me and I felt like there was NO way on earth I could leave my baby. I called Scott and tried to back out stating several excuses. He would not take no for an answer. What if Shane cried and my parents couldn’t hear him in the next room? Scott replied he was going to buy me a baby monitor. Everything I could feasibly come up with, he had a response for.
Besides, he said, the tickets were non-refundable and if I didn’t use them then he wouldn’t be going and it would all go to waste. I began to feel really bad. I tried to run down a list of people that could possibly take my place and again he said if I wasn’t going then he would not go either.
I felt awful! In the end, I finally said I would go but I would have to be able to call Shane every night. It was a deal. I went over to his new house and took a tour. I was, to say the least, overwhelmed. I knew he said his company was doing good, but I didn’t know it was doing THAT good. Geez! It was a beautiful 2 story house with 4 bedrooms and all kinds of room. It even had a swimming pool with a spa.
I was so excited for him and he couldn’t be prouder. The funny thing is since Scott was running his own company and had started it from the ground up and it hadn’t changed him one bit. He was the same old Scott. We agreed on when to meet, etc for the trip.
For those of you who are lost:
I met a geek part I
I met a geek part II
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