[BrightFuture]

Whew, I’m exhausted typing all the updates.

So, next day (day three) was the race day. I had a hard time getting my kids out of the bed, they partied too much the previous night, hehe. We headed to my mutual friend’s house in town, because the race track was not far from there. We had to navigate through the busy traffic in town and I thought we were late and would miss the most expected – the trophy trucks. When we got to my friend’s house we realized that nothing was going on yet. She was home with the baby and her H was at work that day. My other GF and her son and his GF arrived later.

Then somebody called on the house phone and my GF talked. It was H giving us updates on the race. He had a communication with one of the guys who had a radio. The race was delayed by a couple of hours because of the mud slide somewhere in the mountains along the race path. H called a few more times giving us the updates. Then he called to let us know that the race was starting and we headed to the tracks. We drove in and there were a lot of cars and trucks with spectators aligned on both sides of the race track. We parked and started getting out our stuff of the cars. Next thing I know, H shows up and tells us about the wind conditions and to go on the other side, so we would avoid the dust from the passing race cars. Then he noticed that I had my car windows cracked a bit and told me that it would be a good idea to close them.

I didn’t see where he went after that, because I was busy with situating the dog and bringing the stuff from the car. My mutual friends said that it looked like he was by himself again. At least not with his drinking crowd again. He might have been with his new body, a guy who recently lost his wife. I didn’t see H’s car anywhere close to us. Obviously he was anticipating us and looking for us to arrive. I didn’t see him for the rest of the race. I just felt sad again, because we were all together with family and friends, and I don’t really know if he was with somebody. I know he would have enjoyed everybody’s company, like he always did.

I thought that it was very nice of H to keep us updated. It felt like he really did care. I even told my GFs that it was very nice of H. They both were kind of surprised too. One of them asked me if I would take h back if he would want to come back to M. They both looked at me, and I said that I don’t know, I probably would want to see the changes in H first before deciding on this. I left it at that and they didn’t ask any more questions.