It was the second week of November, The midterms were getting the best of him. Isaac calls him up shortly after to see he wanted to go have a drink or two. Samson drives to the dive-bar, seeing his friend on one of the bar stools. The place seemed to not be as busy, there were three other people in the bar. Two of them would be playing some pool while the other one was in the corner far away from Isaac.

Samson sat next to him ordering himself a beer like he had. The two would be silent as they drank their beers. "How're things, Samson?"

he sipped from his mug of beer, "things have been going well, you?"

Isaac would have an even longer pause, "They've been well, could be better. My moms new boyfriend is trying to get close to me, It's pretty weird. Wanted to go miniature-golfing together. Like where in the hell are we gonna do that? I'm pretty sure the last place that had one of those places was Possum springs, and that shit got flooded."

"Yeah, I think my girlfriend mentioned that before..."

"Oh right, you have a girlfriend kind of forgot you know with all this shit happening you know?"

"Yeah, I get it... effing blows... Seems like we're all too busy nowadays... Dex and his new girlfriend, Felix dealing with his wedding, I'm trying to get my shit together as well as try my best to you make this relationship work out. With all of her baggage..."

"Oh come on, her baggage can't be that bad."

Samson would take a small chug from his frothy mug, "I don't want to reveal any personal stuff but let's just say... she had a lot going on..."

"Hmm..." Isaac would slouch a little, "I get that..."

The two finish up their glasses before looking at the pool table, "Wanna play a little game of pool? Like old times?"

"sure, I can rack him if you want."

"You rack it up, I'll break it."

"Dibs on Solids" Isaac headed over to rack up the balls, while Samson readied himself by grabbing two pool cues from the wall.

"Alright, I'll break it." Samson readied up the cue ball, with one strike to the pyramid the rest of the billiards cascaded around the table, Samson knocking one of them into the pocket as he stared at the billiards before looking back up at Isaac, "your turn"

Isaac would walk over, knocking a few solids into the pockets when he accidentally hooks the striped billiards into one of the pockets. "Crap!"

"Ha, lose a turn" playfully chuckling at him while he moved to play his turn now. Reading his cue to aim at an angle, it easily knocked two stripes into the pockets. Turning to the other side of the table, he angled the ball to one of the stripes to hit off the eight ball. It would miss, and then hit the black billiard by accident. Making him lose the turn.

Isaac would return, coming at the cue ball at an angle. The ball would knock four but two of them would fall inside the pockets. Isaac had two more left before he'd win feeling a bit Pompous, he thought he could knock the two at the angle he was at. over hooking it, knocking the eight ball into the pocket. Making him lose the game, "Shit..."

"Looks like I won, best two out of three?"

"You're on" Isaac and Samson would play two more rounds. Samson would lose the second after accidentally hitting multiple solids instead of stripes. The second one would be a tie as the two would have the same score. "Well that was fun, what time is it?"

Isaac looked down at his phone "Ten 'til four"

"I see, wanna go and grab a late lunch or something? I don't really think they serve food here."

"I think the only thing they have here is peanuts."

"yeah, Let's go!" The two walked out of the bar, heading to the diner across the street. They sat down, sipping on waters while they chatted with one another, "so, you and that Mae girl still seeing each other?"

"Yeah, in fact her mom invited me over for Thanksgiving"

"Dude congrats! that's like a very difficult milestone for couples just dating."

"Yeah, I did have to schedule with my aunt and uncle about Thanksgiving. Next Wednesday is going to be family lunch with my girlfriend."

"That's really nice"

"What about you? Trying to get back on the horse or something?"

Isaac blew air through his lips before responding "Ehhh, maybe I just think I may want to know my self a little bit before getting back out there. After what transpired at the party and how my actual relationship with Angela ended up."

"Thought you guys were friends"

"Well we were, until she admitted to cheating on me the month before we both broke up."

"Jeez are we all getting cheated on?"

"Seems like it, we should start a club call it the Victims of cheating, VOC."

"Are we the only two in it?"

"No, we'll find other people. Didn't Ron get cheated on?"

"No they just stopped seeing each other I think."

"What about Cassie?"

"Maybe, she seems bitter about the whole ordeal..."

"Heh, and you aren't about yours?"

"Touché" the two would let out light laughs as the waited for their food. Finally getting it as they continued conversing as they ate.

"Hey do you think that we might be you know... growing apart?"

Isaac stared at him in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"Well, I'm asking because it feels that way. Don't really hang out as much, the only time we did it felt less like we enjoyed each others company and instead just felt like people just... there, if that makes sense. Hell, even at the party it did feel like we didn't hang out that much."

"Well, I was trying to get with Callie to screw with Dex and I'm pretty sure Felix was looking for Robyn to talk with, and Dex was clearly looking to hang out with Callie so..."

"So how did that happen with you and Callie?"

"If I'll be honest, I don't recall." letting out a small chuckle "Said something about wanting to make out with someone and low and behold I was at the right place at the right time. Pretty sure that happened after you and that girl you were talking to went to go see that supposed UFO crash site." Being vague when he mentioned the crash site

"I was going to show her the crash site, because she was interested"

"PFFT. Bull shit, we both know what you were doing"

"Look, I mean this with the up most honesty. I actually did intend on showing her that crash site, and if anything that was gonna happen would've happened"

"Oh so you did make out with her?"

"Why are you so obsessed with this?"

"I'm not, I'm just trying to hear what went down when you two were hanging out and all. You two make out or something"

Samson looked away, a bit nervous before answering "Y-yeah kind of"

Isaac would scoff, "I knew it!"

"We were in the middle of it, but we stopped once we heard sirens"

Isaac was a bit embarrassed sucking air through his teeth while he cringed a little, "sorry about that, didn't mean to C-block you or anything like that"

"Well, if anything I at least got to know a bit more about her that night... If that makes sense"

"Like did you... sleep with her?"

"No, hell no she seemed out of it and... full disclosure she had a panic attack and I don't think she wants to fool around after that you know?"

"Holy shit, was she ok?"

"Yeah, she was perfectly fine after that."

"How did you two date?"

"Drove her home, was doing work, like you said; Right place, Right time. We hit it off, date went well. Guess she thought I wasn't too hideous considering we went on a few more dates before" lightly chuckling.

"Well that's sweet, hopefully she isn't like Vivian"

"Nope, she's nothing at all like Vivian. Though she is a tad reserved she means well deep down."

Isaac nodded while the two finished up their meal, "that was a good burger, how was your pancakes?"

"Effing amazing"

Finally, the check comes as it was split. Both respectfully would pay their tabs and leave the diner,

"That was great, maybe we should hang out again"

"Well, we have Jay Owens party that he throws at the end of the semester."

"True, but I meant more than just that."

"Well, We're all friends on Chattrbox. Maybe hit me up when we're both free?"

"Sure! and uh... I hope your family lunch with your girlfriend goes well."

"Thanks Isaac, I appreciate that" and with that, the two would head back their homes and turn in for the day.