Indisguise, I didn?t know the ending to my story was rather apparent. My sincere apologies, I could not make it suspenseful enough. Sadly you are right though, my father gives me the green signal and I come back to the States to find out he was married. But I did not write my story to get utter compassion but it was for a particular silent reader who visits here pretty often. For all those who have read my stupid little story I would like to end it with a quote by Rose Walker: ?Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.? The end?