Rowley's Breaking Point

Greg arrives

It was 2 days after I told Cheryl Greg was staying that I had to pick him up from Grand Central Station. If I'm going to be honest I was so nervous. I didn't know if Greg was gonna be angry at me or if he would be overjoyed to see me again. Cheryl was worried too. She knew what I had been through and saw Greg as a manipulative person. But it was too late to cancel on him now. I kissed my wife goodbye and quickly shouted goodbye to my daughter as she watched Sesame Street.

Before I knew it I was at Grand Central Station. Greg was late by about 20 minutes. Then that 20 minutes turned to an hour. I was beginning to lose my patience but I was more concerned if Greg was ok. So I rang him up.
"Hey Greg it's Rowley. Are you at the station yet?"
"Oh hey. Man I'm sorry I got there early and took a look around."
"Took a look around where?! Greg why didn't you just ring me when you got there?"
"Rowley calm down! You're getting way more mad than you should be, I'll walk back ok."
I felt guilty for lashing out at Greg.
"I'm sorry Greg. It's ok I'll just drive over and pick you up from wherever you are.."
"Ok man see you in a bit"
"Bye"
The call ended. Was he already causing problems? I hadn't even picked him up and there is already inconveniences.
"No-no Rowley it was just a misunderstanding" I told myself. I started my car back up again and drove over to pick up Greg.

I saw him. He started waving at me. I pulled up and he hopped into the car.
"Hey Rowley! How have you been?"
"Well yeah everything's been going g-"
He cut in.
"Yeah Rowley man. Honestly can't believe Natalie kicked me out again. Life has been tough for the last couple of years"
"Yeah.." I sighed.
I started up the car and began to drive home. We made small talk along the way but most of it was about him. Soon we were home.
"Rowley! Why haven't you invited me round more. You've got such a big house." Greg exclaimed.
"Well. We haven't really talked for about 5 years.."
Greg gave me a look. I could feel myself caving in.
"Well Rowley I wasn't the one who left their friend behind for some other guys"
Damn. That hurt I felt a tremendous amount of guilt, maybe I was in the wrong.
"Greg. I'm sorry. I just- I don't know. I'm sorry."
Greg smiled and nodded his head.

We both got out the car and I carried his bags into the house.
"We're home!" I called out. Cheryl popped her head out of the kitchen.
"Hey."
She walked over to Greg. I noticed him looking her up and down..
"Nice to meet you, I'm Greg."
"I'm Cheryl." She gave quite a blunt response.
She turned to me and kissed me.
"Hi hun. Do you want me to take those bags?"
"No it's fine I'll carry them up to the spare room."
Greg butted in. And took the bags off me.
"No no Rowley I'll take them up."

I followed Greg upstairs. As we made our way to the spare room we passed Christina. Greg bent down and introduced himself to her. She seemed to find his little jokes funny. I was glad she got on with him because I know in the pit of my stomach that he would definitely be here for more than a week.

A couple of hours had passed and we all sat down for dinner.
"Thank you Cheryl this looks delicious" Greg said.
"Oh thank you!"
We all ate and Cheryl being her curious self began asking Greg about Natalie and what he had been up to.
"Well Natalie and I met in a college party. Do you remember Rowley?"
"Oh yeah yeah."
"Yeah so me and Natalie had a one night stand kind of situation but me being me, uh, I was very compassionate and wanted to stay with her. So we stayed haha"
"Zoo wee mama! Greg you had a one night stand?!" Greg and Cheryl laughed along with me.
"So as I was saying a year or two down the line Natalie became pregnant. I- I was not ready but I pushed through and we decided to have it. Because, uh, initially she wanted an abortion." Greg continued. He told us more about how they were so happy and suddenly she just completely changed and kicked him out and forced him away from their son. I felt terrible for him and I could tell Cheryl did too.

After dinner we all helped clean up. I tucked Christina into bed and went back downstairs to find Greg and Cheryl laughing and drinking wine.
"Oh hey Rowley wanna join us?" Greg said
"Yeah yeah sure!". I poured myself a glass of wine and joined in. Everyone was getting on so well. Maybe Greg did change. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if he stayed longer. The night went on and at about 11pm Greg went up to bed.

Later around 12pm Cheryl and I went up to our room. It was just me and Cheryl alone. She gave me those loving eyes. We took off our clothes and well you know what happens next. Once we finished Cheryl giggled about how we were quite loud. Shoot. What if Greg heard...
"What if Greg heard?" I asked
"Oh don't worry I'm sure he was asleep" she replied. So many scenarios ran through my mind. What if he recorded it and uploaded it to a website, what if he was secretly watching, what if he- I managed to stop myself thinking about it and went to sleep.