Her arms crossed over her chest as she watched him guzzle beer.  So many thoughts rolled through her mind but she didn’t verbalize them.  Her face, however, gave away her disgust with a curl of her lip.<br/><br/>“You’re right.  I’m not going to let you bring that in the car.  I’m also not going to let you have another one until later.”  Claire wasn’t even going to give the poor sap a chance to not agree to what she had planned.  Granted, she wasn’t quite sure exactly<i>what</i>she had planned but step number one was definitely going to get him off the beer train.  Step number two might involve a shower.  He was also going to start working out again.<br/><br/>She shifted her weight from one foot to the other as he laid bare his soul.  He had been through something extremely painful physically and apparently mentally but it had been five years ago.  Claire was sympathetic but only to a point.  What was he planning on doing?  Wallowing in his misery for the rest of his life?  Drinking himself into any number of health problems and then an early grave?  It was time to suck it up, buttercup and get his ass in gear.<br/><br/>“A diner it is.  I’m sure there’s something around here, we can just look it up on Yelp.”  Claire backed up a few steps as he stood up so he had room to move by her to lock up.  Once he was squared away, she led the way to her Jeep Cherokee.  It was an older model but well-maintained and she was proud of it.<br/><br/>As for the view, well he got it.  She was wearing a pair of skinny jeans that made her backside look uh-may-zing along with a pair of ankle booties and a cropped sweater topped by a warm vest.  The wind whipped through her hair again and once more she tucked it behind her ears before she got in the car.<br/><br/>A few minutes spent on Yelp located the closest mom-and-pop diner and they were soon on their way.  She left the radio on a local station playing quietly and risked a glance at her passenger.  “So...how bad is your knee?  I mean obviously you can walk.  Can you run?  Any kind of sports?”