It was a regular Friday night when the guys from work would go to the local bar to have a few knowing they have to put in still another half a day on Saturday. They worked 6 days a week which left them one day to spend doing what they wanted and needed to get done.
One of the guys was divorced but had a new relationship in the works and was happy. Still another was single but engaged and was already sharing a home with his sweetheart. Then the third one was the playboy who always had a different girl every week and just didn't know what kind of girl he wanted.
Then there was Jim. Jim was black while the other three guys are white. He has been with the company the longest and has been the teacher and guru of the other three. Jim was married and had 5 children. Well he never, ever gets to see his oldest daughter as her mother never wanted to marry Jim after finding out she was pregnant. She said the only reason he was marrying her was because he got her knocked up and that was the story she told everyone until Jim found out that she went off birth control after she had Jim had become sexually active. She stayed locally for a while and Jim did see her on occasion and one day she took off without him knowing she planned on going and was left a note that she took the girl and headed out and not to look for her. He found out later on that she took the girl to California and Jim was heart broken.
His wife is white and was in a very abusive marriage to a white guy that produced a son. They stayed together for several years hoping to iron out their problems, but he became more into drugs and other women and she wasn't about to tolerate anymore, She filed for divorce and was granted full custody of their son. She was a frequent customer at a local club where Jim was working a few nights a week trying to make ends meet and found her to be very attractive. Eventually he asked her out and he found out all about her marriage and was upset for all she went through. They started to date slowly at first because of her bad marriage and eventually it got more intense and heated up.
It took his wife a long time to want to be with another man sexually and Jim made her comfortable and at ease and didn't rush her. One night they went to his apartment and she asked him to make love to her and to be easy and gentle and it was great and that night their oldest daughter was conceived. They didn't rush into marriage as his wife was gun-shy so they agreed to wait until she was ready. They got married when she was two and she felt ready to settle down. Now that he had more to feed he continued working his part time job and he got a better full time job with the guys he is working with now.
They had rocky times at first because her son wasn't sure he wanted a "black dude" as his father but Jim talked to him and told him that he didn't have to call him dad if he didn't want to and he would still love him just the same. They got very close and now are the best of friends and he does call him dad. He and his step sister got along very well and it was just the 2 of them.
Jim's sister became very ill and was on her deathbed from ovarian cancer and asked Him to take care of her son when she was gone. He adopted the boy but he was very disrespectful to Jim's wife and son and eventually had to be put away for being unstable and having some mental issues that he didn't know the boy had. He didn't want to do it but it put a huge wedge in his marriage. They were happy with their son and daughter and one day his wife got very sick having lunch at work and she found out she was pregnant. Jim and his wife were half happy about it but abortion was out of the question. Eight months later he was the father of still another daughter.
Jim was popular at his job and customers always went to him and they treated him with respect and he knew his job and he knew it well. He always was dealing with this one girl at one of their suppliers and they became very friendly and they agreed that they would meet each other face to face to put a face behind the phone voice. She was white and surprised to find out that Jim was black because his voice did not give him away. She decided to meet him after work on a Saturday afternoon because he usually had extra time and didn't want anyone at the job to know of their meeting.