Jason lives a comfortable life. His business is successful. Both his children have wonderful futures ahead, and people think he’s pretty neat. There is just one thing Jason wishes he could get rid of -- his ex. When they meet for coffee, however, Jason realizes that after ten years, he wants Howard back. Luckily, Jason has a plan. For Howard, his life is as good as it gets. He’s raised two great children, and helped his ex build a business that provides Howard palimony. Unfortunately, his ex is also the ultimate Zen-wrecker, and no amount of deep breathing can get him out of Howard’s head. When Jason shows up broke and with a hair-brained scheme to get Howard back in his life, under the guise of celebrating the tenth anniversary of their divorce, Howard isn’t sure if he’s being insulted or wooed. But he reluctantly agrees to go back to work at the company, and to allow Jason to move back home. Can ten years heal old wounds? Have Jason and Howard ever stopped loving each other, or should they call it a day and just celebrate their “divorce-ary?” And in the end, who will be the real trickster -- Jason, Howard, or that marvel we call love?

The Divorceary

Whatever the reason, the kids seemed more vulnerable than usual, and Howard didn’t plan to let whatever may or may not be happening with him and Jason mess them up. God knows the divorce, or whatever it was they had done, had probably been hardest on the kids most of all. The fact that Janey and James had come out of it at least appearing to be relatively unscathed, was something Howard would be eternally grateful for, and there was no way he was going to change that. Whatever was or was not going to happen with Jason was going to be thought out with the kids coming first. He was sure Jason would agree with him on that, but Howard knew that he would need to remind himself of that as he felt Jason’s arm around him.


Howard relaxed into it again. After all, the movie was only about half-way done, and if he sat there stiffly for the rest of it, he would probably have an aching back by the time it was over. Anyway, it didn’t hurt anything. Did it?


Chapter 30