‘Do you have friends you can stay with?’ I asked him quietly when he leaned against me, wiping his eyes with his sleeve as he sniffed discreetly. ...e looked up his brown eyes red and humiliated but he gave me a weak nod. ‘I’m so embarrassed for dumping all that on you and now crying like a fucked up sissy.’ He muttered bitterly his face had too many shadows for one so young and nice, but then the Night World rarely treats you nice. All of us have old, hard eyes, shadows and masks, it’s how we. So my boss is not having a great love life. He doesn't mention it much, because you don't talk about that sort of thing at work -- but it comes out. TL;DR - Dude loves his family but ain't gettin' any.]Friday comes around and I walk to her place, we walk to the restaurant. We have a lovely meal. There's a c***d actress at the restaurant, famous for an obnoxious commercial. We laugh about her. We drink red wine. Thank you, red wine.Turns out she is a lush, and red wine flips her switch. By the. "Ohhhhh!" Joyce groaned. "He thinks he's found the love of his life, doesn't he? How can you be so sure of what she's going to do?" I can't be sure, of course, but I would bet anything she will go to the Prom with someone else."There followed a vigorous discussion on what they could do to help Matt and protect him from being hurt. It was Emmett who finally stepped in and insisted that Matt needed to handle the situation on his own, no matter what happened. It was fortunate that all three were. Susan went inside to pee and Misty stayed outside with me. She said she was tired and went over to sit down. I asked her what she did for a living. She told me she was a waitress. She said her s****r was a check out girl at the supermarket. I noticed she had a wedding ring on. I asked her where her husband worked. She told me they were split up. He was a quiet man that didn’t want too much excitement in his life. She said she was frustrated with him and she left. Misty added that she wasn’t a.