Author's Note- I have been planning this story for a little while now. It's mostly just for fun, and not serious AT ALL. So if you like deep, meaningful stuff, look at Total Reverse of the Heart. Not exactly meaningful, but way more serious than this!
-Sophia
"This will be fun, Jesse," Susannah coaxed. "Its just karaoke."
"I don't know if this is such a good idea," Jesse replied. They were going to a party that some friend of Jake's was throwing, and everyone in Carmel between the ages of fourteen and twenty just had to attend.
"Don't worry so much," Susannah chastised. "I mean you don't even have to sing if you don't want to."
Jesse groaned and muttered a few curses in Spanish before entering… only to see Paul Slater on stage, about to perform.
"Okay, this is a throwback, I guess, but it certainly represents my situation," he was saying. As the music started playing, Jesse tensed up, recognizing the song.
"Oh no," muttered Susannah. "I thought we were pat this!"
Paul- "Jesse's a friend, yeah he's been a good friend of mine."
"That's not even true," Jesse said.
Paul- "But lately something's changed and it's not hard to define, Jesse's got himself a girl and I want to make her mine."
"Forget it!" Susannah called. Paul just winked and continued singing while people began to look curiously at Jesse and Susannah.
Paul- "And she's watching him with those eyes and she's loving him with that body I just know it! And he's holding her in his arms late, late at night!"
Now people were openly staring at Susannah and Jesse's very red faces. "Okay, first, not true, second, not your business," Susannah said, glaring.
Paul- "You know I wish that I had Jesse's girl, I wish that I had Jesse's girl, why can't I find a woman like that!"
Kelly Prescot shot Susannah a death glare.
Paul- "I play along with the charade, there doesn't seem to be a reason to change."
"Can we go now?" Jesse whispers. "Much more of this and I might do something regrettable."
"No we can not leave, we can't let him win," Susannah whispers back.
Paul- "You know I feel so dirty when they start talking cute, I want to tell her that I love her but the point is probably moot. Because she's watching him with those eyes, and she's loving him with that body I just know it!"
"You're so wrong, I have not been 'loving' anyone with this body!" Susannah growls.
Paul- "And he's holding her in his arms late, late at night, you know I wish that I had Jesse's girl, I wish that I had Jesse's girl, why can't I find a woman like that?"
"I see why you want to leave, but I think it's almost over," Susannah tells Jesse. "And you have my permission to beat him up later." Jesse nods.
Paul- "And I'm looking in that mirror all the time, wondering what she don't see in me, I've been funny, I've bee cool with the lines, Isn't that the way love's supposed to be?"
"I can't believe he's doing this in front of everyone," Susannah mutters.
"I can't believe you thought he wouldn't," Jesse replies.
Paul- "You know I wish that I had Jesse's girl, I wish that I had Jesse's girl, why can't I find a woman like Jesse's girl? I wish that I had Jesse's girl, why can't I find a woman like that?"
As the song ends, Paul makes his way over to Susannah and Jesse. "Like my performance?"
