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Author's Note: I wrote this at 3am one night. I can't remember actually typing half of this. I swear- I thought I had written something about Erik getting a cat. How weird is that? Anyway, I wanted a stupid fanfiction, so here we go. But, this is my last "Center Stage" fanfic. I just wrote this and wanted to post it to see if you thought it was good or stupid. Good fight, good night.
I don't own anything from "Center Stage"… or "Celebrity Deathmatch". I just like that thingy at the end. C~ya.
One
Jody stood outside her apartment building, saying goodnight to Charlie.
"Are you sure your ok??" Charlie asked, bringing her under the small roof as it started to rain.
"I'm fine, Charlie. I just had a bit of a headache. Sorry about all that. I'll probably be fine by tomorrow."
"Well, ok then. Good-night Jody." Charlie gave her a quick kiss and stepped quickly out into the rain to get a cab.
Jody took out her key and unlocked the door, hating the fact that she had had to lie to Charlie. She didn't really have a headache, she had a bad feeling. As she climbed the stairs to her own apartment, the feeling grew. She unlocked her door and stepped in. Just as she had expected, bad news was waiting for her. Cooper Nielson.
Jody sighed and shut the door behind her. "Cooper, how on Earth did you get in here? And why are you here? And… what do you think you are doing, smoking in my apartment?"
"What? You let Eva do it, don't you?"
"Yeah, but that's my point. You never smoke unless something's wrong. So, what's wrong?"
Cooper shrugged and sat on the couch. He propped his feet up on the table and looked up at Jody. "Nothing's wrong. So, what's up with you? We haven't talked in so long, I only see you at the company."
Jody sat next to him. "Nothing's going on, Cooper. I just got back from a date with Charlie. But, really Coop, why are you here?"
"Charlie Simms, huh? You still with him? How long has it been now?"
Jody smiled and shook her head. "About 3 months Coop. Now, please tell me before I kick you out, what the hell are you doing here?"
"I love you, Jody."
Jody stared at him for a minute without saying anything. "Cooper… you cheated on me. You treated me like shit. And now you expect me to take you back?"
"No… I just thought you should know. I've always loved you Jody… well, since I met you. You're so beautiful and talented and nice and… smart and everything else. I deserved everything that you did to me after that night, and I'm really sorry."
Jody glared at Cooper. "I'm not about to fall for that stupid… fake… charm or whatever you wanna call it. You have your pick of any other girl in the whole city. I'm with Charlie now, so just leave me alone. What did you expect me to do? Run into your arms and tell you that I love you? Break up with Charlie and come into work tomorrow and just tell the whole world that I love you?"
"Look Jody! I just thought you should know how I feel about you. Sorry if that was the wrong thing to do! I just… I can't live without you. I can't sleep at night, I can't eat. I can't even dance anymore. This is killing me inside. The only thing I can say is that I hope you do come to the company tomorrow and keep on dancing there. You're easily my best dancer, my company can't do anything without you."
Jody stood up and looked down at him. "Good-night Cooper."
"Night Jody…" Cooper stood up and gave Jody a strong good-bye kiss before leaving. The weird thing was, Jody didn't even push him off… she actually, dare she think it, liked it. She had forgotten how it felt to be in the arms of the one and only Cooper Nielson. To kiss him and think that he was the only one for you… Jody shook her head.
Why was she fanaticizing about Cooper? Just 30 minutes ago she was obsessing over Charlie and how wonderful he was… and Charlie was great. But now, what was she supposed to do? Just go on dancing with Cooper and dating Charlie like nothing had changed? Jody shut the door and was about to go into her room when the phone rang.
"Hello?"
"Jody is that you?"
"Oh, Charlie. Yeah, it's me. Why?"
"You sound kinda weird. Are you ok?"
"I'm fine. Uh, why are you calling? You're home already?"
"Yeah- that cab driver is amazingly fast."
"Sure, Charlie. Um, is something wrong?"
"No, not really. I just wanted to say good-night."
"You already did that, remember? It started to rain outside and you took me under the ledge and said good-night."
"Yeah, I know. Look, Jody, you really do sound weird. Are you sure everything's alright?"
"I'm fine. Just… still have a little bit of a headache."
"Oh, alright. Well, go get some rest then."
Jody smiled. "Ok. Night Charlie."
"Good-night Jody."
Jody hung up the phone, going back into her wonderful Charlie state of mind for a minute. Then she remembered Cooper and went back and forth for more than an hour, really giving herself a headache, before she finally fell asleep.