This is a giant author's note:
Before we jump into this session of short attention span character stuff, if you are a new reader, maybe scan the below.
If not, feel free to skip ahead.
There is a first time for everything will jump around in time sequence and follow "first time" kinds of things in a relationship (and I of course always welcome readers to offer up a "first time" thing to inspire me). So in the following chapters, I'm not sure there will be much back story, I'm just jumping in with both feet. So, below is my effort at backstory.
Believe it or not, there are actually two relationships burning their way through my brain cells. One, the one I tend to write the most about because I can't keep my neurons away from Bobby Goren, is a relationship between Bobby and Lucy, first as friends, now as more. Then, in Parallel I gave Alex a hot, younger, NYPD firefighter. So, I reserve the right to bring those two in, if the muse thumps me on the head.
Anyway, here is related stuff, in the order I posted it:
The doctor is in
Meet Lucy Jones, a friend for Bobby.
(this is fiction, and when I wrote their meeting I was jumping off from Untethered, I intended it as a short shot of about three chapters, so I thank some readers for suspending their ethical compass about how they met, I'm thinking we do it for TV and fiction all the time)
An adage for a friend
Follows the friendship of Bobby and Lucy, with tons of adages about friendship offered to me by a lot of fabulous readers.
Four funerals and a wedding
I can't seem to stay away from Bobby and Lucy.
A bedtime verse
Bobby's life is still crashing around him, crafted around three different versions (endings) of "Now I lay me down to sleep..."
And so it goes
Bobby and Lucy slip the line of friendship (I love this Billy Joel song).
…and you also see some character stuff in Parallel.
Thanks! Enjoy.