I don’t Know If I will ever see her again

Mike knew something was off the moment that Peter walked into their apartment. He was glossy eyed and staring at nothing in particular as he took his coat and new hiking boots off. He had brought those boots a few weeks ago when he was looking for new shoes and decided on hiking boots just in case he decided to actually start hiking. After all, there was reason that hiking boots could not be regular walking boots.

Mike paused the cop show, partly to see what was wrong, but also because the living room area of the apartment was so small that Peter was blocking the view of the tv just by walking in. "Hey, you all right?", said Mike

It took a moment for Peter to respond, and even then it was not really answer to the question. "I don't know if I will ever see her again.?

"Who?"

"The love of my life," said Peter. He let out a big sigh that turned into a large yawn. He had been having trouble sleeping. He always had trouble sleeping, and the sleeping meds from the doctor did not seem to be working as well as he hoped.

"I didn't know that you had a girlfriend"

"I don't, I saw her at work. I helped her get her medications. It was love at first sight." At this remark, he let out another sigh and finally took off his second boot. He had been idly twisting the shoelaces of the boot while he had half-way off his foot.

"I don't think that actually exists, anyway," said Mike as he moved to one side of the couch so that Peter could seat on the other side. He left the badly written cop show on pause. "Anyway, What was her name? How did she look?"

"I don't think I should tell you, I am not even sure if that breaks HIPPA." Peter said this as he let out another yawn. His stomach also rumbled, he normally would be eating right now. That was his schedule. Come home from work at the pharmacy, eat, and then videogames. "She was slightly tan, maybe partly Hispanic, with beautiful dark blond hair and silver earrings. I think she was taller than me too."

"Annnnd," Mike said. "Did you ask her out? Did you get her number?"

"No" Peter paused. "All I could do was ask her was if she went UPC. She does, and she is a sophomore sociology student. I didn't want to be a creep. Besides I never really had a girl friend. And she is like seven years younger then me. My youngest sister would kill me for acting like Leo. Besides, what would she want with a loser like me?

"Fair point"

There was a brief awkward silence, then Mike started the show again. Peter watched for few minutes before slipping into his room. After a few moments, there was some type sad music that started coming from Peter's room. Mike couldn't place the song, but it stopped shortly after when Peter's wireless headphones took the music from the computer's speakers.

Later, there was Chinese food dropped off at the front door.