Sunday March 30th 2008
Who: Ophelia and Simon What: Ring Shopping Where: Downtown Danvers When: Sunday Afternoon Rating: PG 13
Simon was nervous as anything. It wasn't just because he was going to be a father, or because he was going to marry Cissy despite him being in love with someone else, or the fact that that someone else was his best friend, or that she was gay, or that he was taking this same girl to buy the ring for another girl. It was all of those things piled one on top of the other that was making him such a wreck. Not to mention he was trying to keep his grades up and was working as much as he could in the school's garage.
So he was very glad that he was hanging out with Ophelia today. They hadn't spent all that much time together lately, which he knew was his own fault. Part of him wanted to avoid her a little, because being around her was a constant reminder that he couldn't have her. But he was going to ignore that today because he was going to buy an engagement ring for Cissy. He did love Cissy. It wasn't in the way that a man should love a woman to marry her, but they were having a baby and they were already a family, and it was the right thing to do. His mother had taught Simon a lot of things that were wrong, but this was something that had to be right.