[ WP ] The narrator has a huge crush on the protagonist . It 's really starting to creep the protagonist out .

Clancy rolled back and let loose. Harmin cruised down the center stripe clean as a whistle and knocked the remaining pins into the gutter. 
 
 `` Hot dog!'' the whisper slipped past Clancys chapped lips, yellowed by nicotine flapping over corn-chowder teeth and bleeding gums. 
 
 He ran his fingers through what little wisps of hair he had traversing his scalp left. and made for the bar. 
 
 Harmin had died the year before. Clancy'd been sitting in the pick-up out by the reservoir when he heard the sirens. Following them back the the bowling alley he'd shown up to only a squad car and Harmin's car in the lot. Damn fool. 
 
 There went the league. Gunderson was no good after the stroke and Bob disappeared after his bar burned down. 
 
 As per the pact, Clancy took possession of Harmins skull upon his death. 
 
 For the longest time Clancy kept Harmin's skull on the dais by the parlor, where he could see it as he read the paper or took a dump from the kitchen. 
 
 Time wore on and Clancy wore down though, in posture and patience. Hassling strangers at the convenience store over offensive hats from the hat rack. burdening fast food employees with stories of his yesteryears as a pro-bowler. It was then that he decided to encase Harmins skull in epoxy and make him a bowling ball. 
 
 `` like you always dreamed'' 
 
 I'd been sitting at the bar that day sipping my julip when Clancy came in with Harmin under his arm. While most of the other ladies my age would say Clancy was a flabbish ragged man beat past all modicum of attractiveness I still found something charming about his dour air of defeat. 
 
 `` Oh Clancy wont you come and sit by me!'' I waved to him over the counter to the lanes where he stood holding Harmin. 
 
 `` sorry doreen i've got a few turkeys to bag'' and he ran off toward the other side of the alley. 
 
 two hoodlums came in through the fire escape just then what with a table leg and a switchblade. the one gave Clancy a solid whack in the back of the head bringing him to his knees and the other stabbed him in the chest as he let out a flacid groan. 
 
 that next week Clancy was buried with Harmin's skull and to my understanding they still are. The bowling alley put a reinforced lock on the fire escape and the mayor promised to get harder on crime in the town.
