I was merely trying to prove a point to Alex about how he will always be caught in his lies and I now know that it was wrong of me to use your persona... life to prove my points. I’m sorry.”“Thank you,” he said. “That was all I ever wanted from you was an apology for that, but to be completely honest I thought you were the one mad at me.”“No, not at all! How could I ever be mad at you? Besides, I was the one in the wrong not you. You’re always so hard on yourself Tyler,” I said and lightly. "Oh, are you folks a couple?" Ok, maybe not so subtle."Eh, yeah," Cassie gave Shane a look. I had crossed a boundary with her.Whoops. Oh well, damage done, might as well continue."Can I ask how long you've been together?" Em... Yeah, sure. We've known each other for about four years butstarted going out about a year and a half ago after our friend'swedding."A year and a half ago at a friend's wedding... I remembered that wedding.We'd gone as a trio after my date came down with a sudden case of. I sent every manager in the company an email that they would have to hand-deliver the checks.It was four days before Abby attempted to come into the office. When I saw her face I almost cried. It looked like she had aged ten years in the past four days. The fire was gone out of her. After sitting in her office for about an hour she came into Dan's office and closed the door. She sat down in the chair like she hadn't enough strength to hold herself up.She smiled weakly, "We have to talk. I. We left our bags on the train and everything. It took off, and we,’ his laugh is a wheezy, breathy thing, ‘we didn’t have but one dollar altogether. All our money was in our bags, on the damn train. Never did get mine back. Anyway, we were about a hundred miles from home, yet, so we had to hitch hike the rest of the way. That turned out alright, too. Took a day and some change, but it turned out alright.’ He shakes his head. ‘You couldn’t do that, now.’ August Cooper smacks his lips, his story.