1. Shane
Shane sighed as he entered the Cirque du Soleil Theater to find his girlfriend, Tatiana, waiting for him. She does not look happy to see me, he thought to himself. "Hey, babe," he said as cheerfully as he could. "How are you?" he asked as he kissed her cheek.
"Well, Shane," she started, which was the way she always started when she was ready to argue. "I would be good today, if you had returned my call yesterday."
"Tatiana, you know that I was visiting my mother yesterday," Shane said as calm as he could manage. "I got home late."
"You could have left a message," Tatiana said, she had apparently studied what she was going to say, Shane laughed. "What is so funny? I wonder if me breaking up with you would be funny," she sneered.
"No, it wouldn't be funny," he sighed. But it would save me a lot of trouble, he thought to himself, almost laughing again. It had been about three months since he and Tatiana had started dating and each passing day seemed to turn into more and more of a complication. It was enough that they worked together and spent every night together, but when Tatiana got upset with him because he wanted to see his mother who was in a nursing home, that was just crossing the line. "Look, I am not going to argue with you, but I'm not going to say that I'm sorry if that is what your looking for," Shane told her. "I'm not going to abandon my mother to spend all my time with you, especially if it is only once a week that I see her."
"Fine," Tatiana scorned. "Whatever."
"Can we get passed this, please," Shane took her hands in his.
"Ok, I'm sorry," she said and smiled a little.
"Matt and I are going to Club Firestone tonight, are you coming?"
"Well, I have to pass by my house first and do a couple things, but I'll be there later on."
"Alright, I have to go practice, so I'll see you later," Shane said, kissed her and walked towards the stage.