Under Sufferance
My thanks go to SH for doing what she can to find all of my cock-ups. I really hadn't wanted to be there in the first place; but Bill was my oldest friend, even if we had drifted apart somewhat since he'd taken up with Stephanie. So when he contacted me and made it clear he was about to ask me to be his "best man", I really hadn't been able to come up with a reasonable sounding excuse to turn him down. Without making it too obvious I tried just about everyway I could think of to put him...