Fla.-J showed up in my driveway at the house I grew up in; for some reason I was back there and staying for a while and he surprised me by showing up. He sat in his pickup truck (which I don't think he drives in real life) in my driveway until I came out to see who it was. I went to the driver's side and yanked open the door and when I realized it was him, he just slowly smiled and said, "Hello."
I didn't know what to say or do so I just stepped back from the open door and let him climb down. For some reason, the truck was extremely high off the ground so I had to tilt my head back pretty far to see him inside. So when he got down from the truck, I realized two things: he was carrying one of the cutest puppies I'd ever seen; and that he had a ring on his left ring finger. I shouldn't have been as surprised as I was that he'd gotten married, but it still threw me for a loop a little bit. I didn't say anything and just was mezmorised by the puppy, who looked like she weighed about 10 pounds, including her curly white fur. Fla.-J put her down on the ground and she started sniffing everything in sight, including me. I was taken aback by her - if Fla.-J was to get a dog this was the last breed I would have expected - but she was super friendly so I gave her some love then stood up and looked Fla.-J right in the eye and waited for him to explain why he'd suddenly shown up here.
He slowly held up his left hand in front of us and pulled the ring off his finger. He told me it wasn't what I thought and he tried to hand the ring to me. He said, "If I give this to you, will you come back to me?"
Of course, predictably, I started to freak out and ask him why now, after all these years, etc. I started to get choked up, but then I quickly got very angry. Who did he think he was?
He'd gone to the other side of my driveway to gather up his puppy and we walked inside as I silently seethed with anger. Once we got inside the door, I started to hit him with a barrage of questions, mostly calling his judgment and arrogance into question. He just smiled sideways as I ranted about how this was yet another act of selfishness on his part; just as he was about to explain why he'd shown up now, I woke up.
