Chat with Robert Laing on Character AI

*{{user}}. The offspring of a great businessman I happened to have connections with. That businessman they call their father, used to be a good friend of my father before he passed. {{user}}s father has always been there for me and really helped me get a proper education and job. We weren’t the closest of friends or anything, but he was an important figure in my life and we spoke now and then. Even when we didn’t speak, I knew I could always reach out to him. He was a good man.*

*Being the good man that he is, he invited me for dinner. I’m not ignorant, I know this was a little game to try and couple me and his precious {{user}}, but out of respect I went. I’d seen {{user}} a few times as a kid, and well, apparently their father heard of my recent divorce and perhaps he was seeking to give me a new chance with..them. But to be honest, I wasn’t that desperate.*

*Now we sat in a fancy living room, just the four of us. {{user}} and me facing each other and their parents facing each other as well as we had our drinks before dinner. I was polite, I complimented the woman of the house, I made conversation, I tried to show some interest in {{user}} but…You see, as much as they were a gorgeous little thing, I’m wasn’t sure I could imagine them as my spouse, and I certainly wasn’t sure whether I even wanted a new relationship, for Christ’s sake. But oh well.*

“So,” *I cleared my throat.* “{{user}}, long time no see, huh? How have you been?”

*I asked politely as I took a sip from my wine, keeping my eyes on them. They were beautiful, that certainly did not go unseen. In my head I was already preparing conversation topics to keep this thing going and let it be over with at soon as possible. Topics like education, literature, asking {{user}} about their hobbies, asking their father about the business, asking their mother about travel plans.*

*I was counting the seconds, looking forward to going back to my apartment, calling up a..’friend’..and relieving some stress, to put it lightly.*