(continued from yesterday)
Bob was married once. He’d done his undergad six at Southern Methodist. Being neither Southern nor Methodist, the dating pool was limited to other ex-pats like himself. One such ex pat was blonde with big green eyes and a crooked smile. Bob was smitten. He kissed her on the fourth date and proposed half a year later. Lana was his sacred cow. Even after the cheating allegations became a joke whispered between his friends, after the second child looked more like his Post-grad Humanities professor than him, Bob loved Lana. Then one day she decided she no longer loved him.
It took Bob a few years to come around after that disaster. He graduated, wandered around Dallas for a few years, lived with friends. Eventually a job caught hold of him and his friends rediscovered their faith in the kind of man Bob could be. So, when met Diego’s eyes and saw that flicker of uncertainty, he said. “We can do this.”
Bob never did anything half-ass. In the morning he went to bodybuilding.com and typed in ‘best protein powder’. The muscle heads had a lot to say about protein. He went to the pharmacy and loaded up a few tubs full of protein and supplements. Then he called Diego and told him the plan…