I met Nichole when we worked
together as technicians for the Army working on helicopters. She was dating a guy named Joe and I was
married at the time. We worked on
separate teams so we never really got to work side by side. I was having issues in my marriage at the
time and never realized that she was having them with her man also.
We would both be in the gym at the same time since they allowed us to work out while we were at work three days a week. One thing lead to another and one day I told Bart at work I wondered what she was like. His comment was, “Interesting and he laughed.” I didn’t know what that meant and that was all that was ever said. Unknown to me, Nichole had said the same thing to him a couple months earlier.
A few months later there was a promotion party for a guy at work and it was a drill weekend. Everyone was going to go up to the legion after work and he was buying a keg to celebrate. Ari had asked me if I wanted to go and I told him sure. I went home and changed my cloths and came back up. When I got there Gina and Nichole were both in there. Ari and myself sat down and started to eat and when we got done grabbed some beer. They both came over to our table and sat down. Small talk started and they asked what we were doing for the rest of the night. Ari said we were going to go out and find a bar. They both laughed and said they were going to do the same and that we should end up at the same one.
We would both be in the gym at the same time since they allowed us to work out while we were at work three days a week. One thing lead to another and one day I told Bart at work I wondered what she was like. His comment was, “Interesting and he laughed.” I didn’t know what that meant and that was all that was ever said. Unknown to me, Nichole had said the same thing to him a couple months earlier.
A few months later there was a promotion party for a guy at work and it was a drill weekend. Everyone was going to go up to the legion after work and he was buying a keg to celebrate. Ari had asked me if I wanted to go and I told him sure. I went home and changed my cloths and came back up. When I got there Gina and Nichole were both in there. Ari and myself sat down and started to eat and when we got done grabbed some beer. They both came over to our table and sat down. Small talk started and they asked what we were doing for the rest of the night. Ari said we were going to go out and find a bar. They both laughed and said they were going to do the same and that we should end up at the same one.
We all went to Reno's and then after a while Ari wanted to go to a dance club. He said he knew of one down in Battle Creek and asked if I would drive. So off we went to Battle Creek which was about an hour away. When we got down there and went it the bar wasn't much to to talk about and we danced for a while. I couldn't drink because I was the designated driver. We left about 2am to head back to Grand Ledge and after we got back Gina said we were all invited to crash there since we had to be into work at 7am in Grand Ledge at the Armory in a couple of hours. So we all crashed out on the floor and soon our alarms were going off.
Nichole's phone kept everyone up going off all night because Joe had been driving by Gina's apartment and seen Ari's and my cars there. I asked her the next day what was going on with her and Joe and I didn't want to get involved with anything if they were together. She said no and that he was pissed and thought he had seen my car there and wanted to know why. She told him that is wasn't my vehicle and it wasn't any of his business anyway.
In the next few weeks I could see the tension build with them at work. If it wasn't over before it surely was then. They lived together only because they had signed the lease together. They had already started to ride separately to work but they at least ate together. That had already ended by this time.
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