Tony Collins, Darcie's Husband

Spencer was just watching Amy warming up with Kimberly when he felt someone come and sit down next to him. The girls practising using their mitts by throwing long balls to each other. He turned to see who it was, a little surprised that it was Tony Collins. He had seen Tony arrive with Darcie but hadn’t expected either of them to come over when Darcie had seen him and turned the other way. The last time they had spoken was out the front of Spencer’s house when Tony had given his blessing to Spencer sleeping with Darcie. How would he be now?

“Hey Tony,” Spencer began.

“Hey Spencer,” he returned. “so, you and Darcie are…”

“Yeah,” he said. Why did it feel so weird to be telling the husband of the woman he’d been seeing they basically broken up?

“I’m sorry man. It’s got to be tough,” Tony said.

Spencer was amazed that this man would be trying to comfort him now. What a crazy world this really was!

“It’s for the best really. You and Kimberly,” Spencer didn’t know quite what to say.

“Just give her time. You never know. She could come around. Just be there for her if she does. It doesn’t have to be like before. Here and there if either of you is in the mood.”

“We’ll see,” Spencer said. He didn’t want to say that he had already slept with someone else last night.

“Anyway, I’ll leave you to it. Just wanted to come on over and check on you. I’ll buy you a beer if you’re in McLaren’s sometimes.”

“That would be good. I’ll take you up on that.”

Tony got back up and left Spencer alone. Tony returning to sit with Darcie for the girls’ game.

It was just a practise game so scores weren’t kept but my Spencer’s rough calculations Amy and The Carter Junior High team won by a run or two. Amy played well. Spencer was up cheering for his girl when she hit a home run. Amy managed another run in as well as a sharp catch at third base. Kimberly too doing a good job at the team’s catcher.

Spencer congratulated Amy after the game as they were heading to the front of the school to wait for a taxi back to their house. Spencer allowed Amy to pick what takeaway they had for dinner tonight as a treat for doing so well but she was happy with leftover pizza in the fridge. Amy happy to eat it cold again the next day which is something Spencer could never do. It had to be heated up in the oven for him.

Spencer put Amy’s sports uniform on to wash that afternoon before he headed out onto the lake with his canoe to get a little exercise of his own in. Unfortunately, Spencer’s left shoulder was clicking a little bit and causing him some pain, perhaps from the accident this week, and had to call it quits before very long. He’d look at booking an appointment for a massage or a physio next week when he had a car to get around properly again.

Over pizza, Spencer and Amy watched a pair of movies together on the couch. A recent romantic one for Amy first and then an older classic for Spencer. Amy always finding her dad’s choice in movies boring and falling asleep beside him. With the movies over, Spencer picked up his daughter and carried her into bed. If she got much bigger or his shoulder kept aching as it did then, he wouldn’t be able to do it for much longer.

It had been a big week for Spencer so he took the opportunity to get an early night just like Amy did. He had a lot to do come Monday and didn’t want to drag his feet at all.