Characterisation (well, not as such...)

Rachel is a single mother who meets Will New Years Eve at a party. After first being a little cool that evening and showing him her shoulder she warms up as they meet each other for having dinner together. Rachel has made a lot of bad experiences with single men so she is afraid of getting to know him better. Rachel decides later on that Will as being a single father (that’s what she thinks) is the best that could possibly happen to her. But Will is not a single father, he did not tell her so as well so he asks Marcus whether he could help him in this precarious situation. Marcus agrees so they go to visit Rachel and her son Ali at their house. Marcus gets into trouble with good old Ali who is guided by very defending feelings for his mom (he wants to have her completely for him alone and says she doesn’t need other than him). As a matter of fact these two now don’t get on to well and Ali offers Marcus to kill him if he don’t go and take his frickin’ father along with him. Marcus spontaneously decides to go for a walk (he runs for it so to say) so Will (a little startled at first) goes after him and tries to talk him into coming back with him while Rachel tries to eliminate her son’s feelings for protecting her chance to have the possibility to get to know other men at least later in her life.

Rachel is afraid of relationships because of a) the trouble she’s been forced to go through and b) her son’s problems with her having a boyfriend.