I should mention that italicized print is the person's thoughts. Also, this is happening at the same as the last chapter.


Chapter 3, part 1: Take it or Leave it part 1

I left Todd's and headed to the doctor's which I'm late for. I get there, a nurse type lady hands me a clipboard of papers and tells me she'll call me when the doctor's ready to see me. Back in the day I would have never gone to the doctor's, because I always knew right... well I didn't. I also would have NEVER gone to a head doctor, and I don't mean a shrink type of head doctor, a doctor who specializes in dealing with the brain or whatever. I need to know if there is something wrong with me, if that is why I keep getting these lightening headaches.

"Jason, the doctor will see you now." A nurse says from the doorway. She holds it open until Jay enters. She points out his office. Jay takes a seat and waits for the doctor to come in.

"Jason, hi, I'm Doctor Frampton." The doctor shakes Jay's hand and sits behind his desk. "Okay, so what can I do for you?"

"I get these intense headaches, almost like lightening, they only last a few seconds, usually no more then a minute" Jay says, putting his hand to his temple, trying to find the right words to explain his headaches the right way.

"Well, let us get you checked out then." The doctor stands up, motioning Jay to follow him.

I went through a bunch of test, and had to go through an MRI, and whatnot. It took forever. The doctor concluded that nothing is wrong with me. Well isn't that just great, well then why do I get the headaches? The Doc gave me a migraine prescription, hopefully they work. I worked up an appetite... The Dot, I haven't been there in almost five or six years. Just as I park the car and am about to get out I see her, the girl. She looks as amazing as she did last night. She's walking down the street, so I can't see her face, but I can definitely tell it's her. All I can think about, well besides her ass [since it's currently the only thing I can see is what Alex said at the bar. Why can't I figure out who she is? Maybe Alex was just messing with me; she does like to do that. I can't think about that anymore, I'm starving. I walk in, about to take a table when someone bumps into me.

"Watch where you're walking." Jay tells him, not bothering to see who it is.

"Jay!?"

"Man, How you been?" Jay asks, doing the male hand shake.

"Good, how about you, what has it been, five years since you up and left?"

"Um yeah, it's been okay. My mom just died, that's why I'm back in town." Jay says taking a seat.

"Sorry to hear dude, you doing okay?"

"Yeah, you know me, never much of a family person." Jay stops talking to give the waiter his order. "You want something?"

"Nah, I already ate. Right, so how long you staying for?"

"A couple more days maybe, I haven't decided yet."


Chapter 3, part 1: Take it or Leave it part 2

Jay's cell phone starts ringing just as the waiter brings out his food. "Sorry man, I have to take this." Jay opens his phone, "Hello?"

"Jay, this is Greg, how you holding up?"

"I'm fine, what's up?" Jay picks up a fry, putting it in his mouth.

"Well, I know you've been missing Toronto lately, and since I just promoted you..." Greg, Jay's boss says into the phone.

"Yeah..." Jay replies, waiting for him to finish.

"There's a shop in Toronto, um... Tony's Garage,"

"Yeah, I used to work there." Jay tells him, and then eats another fry.

"Well, he's selling it, and I bought it. You remember us talking about franchising, so if you want to stay in Toronto a while longer, I could use you there to set up shop."

"Um, wow, I could stay a few more days. I haven't really decided whether or not I want to stay."

"Okay, well if you stay there and set up the garage for me, in a few day you tell me whether or not you want to stay, if you do you can be me [the boss, or you can come back here and we can switch places."

"Yeah, sounds good, I'll keep in touch."

"Good, take inventory at Tony's so I know how much more I need to spend, plus the cost of workers."

"Well, I'm actually eating with an old friend, and I must say he is as good as a mechanic as I am. If he needs work, you won't need to spend any money on workers until the garage is totally set up."

"Works for me, work it out, keep me updated. I gotta go, work is calling." Greg and Jay both hang up. Jay turns to his friend.

"So you looking for work?" Jay asks him, picking up his burger.

"Actually I am, I want something better so I can get a different place."

"Cool, once I get done eating, we're headed over to Tony's."

I ate pretty quickly, and we headed over to Tony's. We chatted with him for a while, and then he handed over all the necessary paperwork. We got started cleaning up and setting up shop. It took longer then expected, probably because my mind is elsewhere. Do I really want to stay here, where I grew up, for the most part? It's a good opportunity, to start this place up, but I can be the boss at the garage in Ontario too. I don't know if being back here is going to be good for me. I left my old ways behind, maybe they'll catch back up to me. Well I know one thing that hasn't changed; I still hate thinking so much...

"This place looks pretty good."

"Yeah, Greg will be happy." Jay says to his friend. "We still have to tear down the Tony's sign, we'll probably have to call someone in to do that. Greg's gonna have to get a GM AUTO sign too."

"There's still a lot of stuff here, your boss is lucky he bought it will all its contents."

"Greg's a good business man." Jay says, walking over to all the parts and tools, "We should probably put like things together."

Dare I say that I like being home. Weird, beyond weird. I hate taking inventory though. It takes forever. I still can't decide whether or not I want to stay. Maybe I'll stay until I figure out who that girl is. Hmm...

"That's the last of it."

"Thanks for helping man, considered yourself hired." Jay says to his friend. "I need to fax this list over to Greg. You think the one in the office works?" Jay asks out loud, not really expecting an answer. He pulls out his phone, gets Greg's fax number, and to his luck, it works. Jay then sends Greg a text saying the shop is pretty much cleaned up. "Okay, not I have to find a place to crash." Jay said, hinting to his buddy.

"Yeah, fine you can crash with me, since you gave me a better job then the one I have now."

"Sweet, thanks Sean. Well let's go then."