Well, here's an updated version of "Things you didn't know".
I have added 6 new things in this chapter. I'm not if it's some **** I've wrote...I just randomly wrote down whatever came to my mind, but I hope it's acceptable!
Hope you enjoy (at least some of them)!
#10 – An old ring can still be used
When Sam saw Diane again after 6 years of separation he had analyzed her from top to bottom.
Or so he thought. Because if he really had noticed the little things about her and on her, he would have noticed the shiny diamond ring sitting on her left hand. The one he had given her that crazy day where thousands of dollars were used on nothing. Or not nothing. There still was that "false" ring left which Diane accepted at last. Sam believed he was the only one, who had kept his ring, but what he didn't know was that Diane had worn it nearly every day since their engagement. Of course she had to take it off whenever she was on a date. Actually Diane hoped that he would have noticed it, but he hadn't.
#11 –The right words
One rainy day, where there was nothing else to do in the bar, Sam and Diane discussed what should be imprinted in each other's rings. They came up with some things that day. In Sam's ring Diane wanted "forever yours" imprinted and in Diane's Sam wanted "you're a nutcase" imprinted.
Diane agreed to do that if she could change her words to "my magnificent pagan beast".
Sam agreed to come up with something else.
#12 – An invalid invitation
When Sam told Rebecca that he hadn't contacted his parents for years, he hadn't counted the one time, he gave them a call back in 1987.
"Why, Diane? We haven't even set a date 'yet."
"Well, just let them know about the wedding, alright? Let them know what's going on in your life."
"I can't understand why it can't wait until the whole thing is planned."
"Sam, I don't want you to write a wedding invitation. I want you to write a letter where you in the letter inform them about our engagement. Do they even know who I am?"
"Of course they do!"
"How?"
"Derek…"
"Why won't you even consider giving them a-"
"I'll call them within the next week and tell them."
"Will you invite them to our new house before the ceremony? I want to meet them before we're already married."
"No, you won't."
"Why!?"
"Because they'll kill you then."
"Hah, hah. So funny."
"Actually, I'm not worried about that part. They will like you from the first sight."
"You think so?"
"I know so."
"So we agree that you call and invite them for a dinner and I'll make sure to have a wedding invitation ready for them?"
"Wait, I didn't say-"
"Great, I'll start do some planning right now!"
His parents had been thrilled to hear the news. Even Derek had been happy for him.
The dinner had been set to be some weeks from the day Sam called. That day turned out to be 8 days after Diane had left. His mom had asked him why he sounded so distance in the phone when she called before they were taking off.
"It's cancelled. The dinner, the wedding, everything!"
He hadn't said more before he'd hung up. His parents would keep calling for a week afterwards but he would never answer.
He explained it all that one day he called where he was sitting in the big office.
#13 – Even the smallest things can be important
8 months after Coach's death, Sam read in a TV guide that a Mitchum movie was on that night.
He remembered how he and the Coach would watch his movies every time they were on the TV.
So he would ask everyone if they wanted to see this movie with him. He explained to those who didn't know that this was something he used to do with the Coach. Unfortunately everybody had made plans for that evening. So, a disappointed Sam made his way home to watch the movie all by himself. Just when the movie was about to start, he heard two knocks on the door.
And there, outside his door she stood with a box of chocolate in her one hand and a pointing finger.
"Mitchum!"
#14 –Just because they're not there, doesn't mean that they're not there
Ernie Pantusso was a loved friend by many. Not at least Sam. After he passed away, Sam felt lost at many points. First of all he had to make all his decisions by himself. There was no Coach to tell him what to do. Even though, Coach was Sam closest friend and vice versa Sam didn't pay him one single visit in a period of 2 years. It wasn't until Diane one day asked.
"Why have you bought flowers? Isn't me who's supposed to do that?"
"Yes, but you never do it anyway so. No, actually I bought these for someone else."
"Really? Who?"
"Well, I thought that it was time for us to pay a visit to the Coach, don't you think."
"Uhm, yeah… It probably is."
"I know it's hard. Believe me, it's taken me time too, you know. I have only visited his grave 2-3 times since he passed away."
"Well, compared to my one yours-"
"When was that?"
"What?"
"When was it you visited him?"
"The day we buried him. I haven't steeped a foot into the cemetery ever since."
"I understand completely if you don't want to go. I just thought he would like to know how we were doing. Tell him about our big news."
"Mmm."
"I can go by myself if you don't-"
"No, of course I'll go with you."
"Are you sure?"
"Absolutely."
Since then, Sam kept visiting his grave a couple of times each year. Every time he had this strange feeling that he was in good company even though, the only ones on the cemetery would be other visitors and dead people. He sure didn't feel alone, though. Maybe he was just silly or maybe the Coach really was there in spirit. Who knows? Every time he visited the Coach, he opened himself a bit more up and slowly he developed a conversation with the graveyard.
Even though he sometimes felt stupid talking to a stone with only dates and letters on, it made him feel more comfortable being there.
He never told anyone at the bar.
#15 –I would tell you, if I could
Frasier was a man whose job was to listen to people's problems, understand them and solve them. But there was one problem, he had never solved even though, he was sure, he could have.
The time Diane left Seattle, he was so close to call Sam.
Diane was so low again, and even though, he had helped her once again, he knew that wasn't enough. She needed one to be there for her, and again Frasier was so close to fall in to that trip again. 'Cause just like years ago, she needed a friend desperately, and Frasier had thought he could be that person, and he had thought that he could be even more than that. But that last place belonged to someone special in her heart, and when Frasier found out what she had been up to with this play, he knew that she still just saw him as the 'friend'. Frasier knew that Sam would forever held that special place in her heart.
It was hard to see the woman which he still had feelings towards was doing so badly.
He never knew why he didn't at least call Sam to tell him about Diane. Maybe Sam would've have paid her a visit and everything would've sought itself out.
Frasier wondered if it was because, he didn't think it would work out between them as usually or if it was because he still couldn't let go.
