I met up with my friend Jessica today. I hadn't seen her in about two weeks so we had a lot to catch up with. We went into town, walked through the park and bought chocolate peanuts and strawberry bon-bons. Was just like a typical day meeting her really.

We went back to her house after town and I noticed that Jess' sister looked a little upset.
"Mum and Dad are getting a divorce," she said, looking close to tears.
"A divorce? It's that bad?" replied Jess.
I was then filled in with the details. Apparently Jess' parents had been going through a rough patch. A very big, very unpleasant rough patch. I was surprised that I hadn't known. I thought I knew everything. I mean, I thought I was told everything anyway. It would explain why Jessica has been acting so strangely this last year. She'd stayed so quiet about it all...

Her parents were upstairs at that moment talking it through. After a while, Jess and her sister got called upstairs and they said I could come into the room too (since I was hovering at the door, trying to give everyone space).
"We're not getting a divorce... but we're not happy with each other anymore. We will get a divorce if we can't sort this out," said Jess' Mum. Her eyes were red and puffy and it was obvious they had both been crying. I was really quite moved by it all. Shows I'm not a heartless cow after all. I've never particularly liked Jess' Mum but my heart really went out to her then.

It's strange how much other people's lives can affect you. I feel strangely emotional. And I also don't want to get married now. It's obviously not worth the effort if it ends in tears everytime. It's a good thing then that Rob doesn't want to get married either.