Squirm

So this idea of a wonderfully awkward scene came to me a few weeks ago on the farm. I've really been writing a short story that tells of a youngish guy's day to day life away from his home town. He keeps in touch with a high school friend sporadically, and in one of these messages tells him about a girl he's possibly interested in. The girl has to have a fairly unique name, one that would be certainly identifiable in a small town. A few years later, the girl has met and married another guy in town, and this friend comes to visit Youngish. In a small group setting which includes girl's husband, Friend is catching up with Y. and happens to ask something like, "So, whatever happened with you and Girl?" Gut-twisting awkwardness ensues.

What I need to work on is giving the guy the type of personality that would obviously be mortified at the end. Maybe by portraying him as someone who doesn't talk much about his interests in the opposite sex very much, making this such an unlikely event to happen to him. Still debating whether the story continues beyond a few lines after the bomb is dropped.