Dinner night Shane's P.O.V:
I have just finshed setting the table for dinner...my little sister Alyssa is coming with her husband Daniel and their 2 year old son Luke, Eve and Micheal my best friends and Carla's god parents were coming with their adopted 10 year old daughter Viola (this is beacuse Eve is infertile and can't have kids), my parents were coming and from what Lyss told me she is bringing her new colleage over who I'm pretty sure is the Claire that I met in my store the other day.
It's 5:30 pm so everybody should be arriving in 30 mintutes.
Once I had Carla sorted and myself there was a knock the door I went to answer it and there stood my parents, Eve and Micheal and Viola, Alyssa and Daniel and Luke and I was right it was that Claire I saw the other day standing next to Alyssa...and the girl beside Claire was a brunette little girl that must be her daughter. I invited everyone in and we went into the living room where Carla was when Carla so Claire's daughter she ran up to her and hugged her...
"Sammy your here how do you know my daddy?" Carla asked
"I don't know your daddy but my mummy is friends with you auntie and we were invited here Carla"
"So Sam this is the very pleasent girl that made friends with you the other day?" Claire asked
"Yes mummy" Sam replied
"Well...Claire since you've already met my parents, Daniel,Luke,Eve,Micheal and Viola then we just need to introduce you to my older brother Shane and his daughter Carla...Shane this is Claire you know the girl that I was telling you about and Claire this Shane and the little one hugging Samantha is Carla my niece and Shane daughter." Alyssa said
"Hey, wait didn't I see you in the video game store the other day?" Claire asked as we shook hands
"Yeah we did I own the store"
"Oh that's cool" she replied with a smile.
We then had dinner and Claire was very nice and funny, she seemed to really like Carla and Carla seemed really to like Claire...when we finshed everybody left apart from Claire she stayed behind to help clean up, I talked to her a little more then...she then went and put Carla to bed and read her a story since Carla wanted her too., when she came back down I said to her:
"Hey, ur thanks for helping Claire it means alot"
"Oh it's no probelm I have to do it everynight it's not easy to be a single parent"
Wait...Single?...Parent?...Claire?
"Your a single parent?" I asked in shock
"Yes...I..ur..split up from my boyfriend a few years ago why?"
"Oh...ur..because...I was a little surprise I didn't think you would be a single parent"
"Why not?"
"Because...I don't know you just...don't" Yeah great answer Shane real great answer.
"Oh well thanks I think..anyway you don't seem the type to be a single parent I swore you had a girlfriend or something cause you don't look like you would be a single parent either"
"Well...there you go...Carla's mother left when Carla was just 5 weeks old"
"What?!...how could anyone leave a 5 week old baby like Carla she is just so cute"
I shrugged
"Well...I'm here if you ever need to talk about being a single parent it's not easy but believe me you would feel alot better after talking to someone who knows what it's like"
That's when I saw my opptunity to get to know her more
"Claire, if you don't mind there are some things I would like to talk about can we meet up at the coffe shop at common grounds tomorrow at 9am?"
"Sure that sounds great...I mean Alyssa and Eve said that if I ever need someone to take care of Samantha then I can give her to them to look after so I might drop her off at Alyssa's tomorrow"
"Yeah I guess I can do that to see you tomorrow Claire"
"You to Shane...Samantha sweetie come on were're going home"
"Coming mummy" Samantha came into the hallway and stood next to her mother
"Bye Shane" Samantha said
"Bye Sam" I replied and then watched Claire and Samantha walk out to Claire's car and drove off.