Charlie and Jody have Problems Too
"Come one! I thought I told you that I loved Ryan!"
"You said you two broke up!"
"Yeah, so? You and me broke up, and you still love me! So why can't me and Ryan break up and me still love him?"
"Because Ryan is the biggest jerk I have ever met in my entire life!"
"Hey! How would you like it if I dissed the person you loved?"
"I dunno. How would you feel about dissing yourself?"
"Uh! You are such a…"
"Toad?"
"YES! Exactly! You are a toad! I mean, what am I saying? I'm calling you a green amphibian that goes 'croak croak'!"
"Ok? Random!"
Just then Ryan walks into the room.
"OK! ENOUGH REHEARSAL FOR TODAY!" Cooper yelled from where he sat in front of them. They had been rehearsing the dialogue part of his new ballet.
Charlie kissed Jody before standing up. He walked off backstage to change. Jody went off in the other direction to change as well. They met each other out in the lobby and left for Charlie's apartment. He couldn't cook if his life depended on it, so he ordered them pizza.
"How do you expect to lift me if you fill me up on Pizza every Friday night?"
"Jody, look, I've been meaning to talk about that. I've noticed that I do fill you up on pizza every single Friday night, and sometimes Chinese or something. And I know you eat more on other days and for lunch and stuff. But you never seem to gain more than a penny's worth of weight."
"That's because I dance non-stop every single day. It's called exercise."
"Yeah, but still. You are the smallest girl in Cooper's company and I'm worried about you."
"Are you saying that I don't know how to eat healthy?"
"No, of course not. Just that, maybe you're eating healthy and then…." Charlie's thought trailed off.
"And what? And then I go puke it up?"
"All I'm saying is-"
"That I can't run my own life! That' you think I have an eating disorder! And that you have no idea what it's like to be a female ballet dancer!" Jody grabbed her coat and purse and left Charlie's apartment.
Charlie slumped down on the couch. He always managed to say the wrong thing when he was in love. Normally he could always say the right thing, but now, around Jody, the more time he spent with her the more he started screwing up their relationship. He could pull off saying the right thing on stage, but he knew that's not what he'd ever say in real life, and that bothered him.
He knew he loved Jody and he knew that Jody loved him. They had been going out for 2 years, and they were 20 now. Charlie had given up on ABC after less than a year. They weren't making the kind of ballets he wanted to dance in, and they didn't have Jody. So he got into the Cooper Neilson Dance Company. Both he and Jody were principle dancers. Sometimes it bugged him how close Cooper had to get to Jody during rehearsal, but then he remembered how Jody loved him and how Jody always blew off Cooper.
But knowing all this still didn't help with his problem, and his problem was his mouth. He had been saying the weirdest things lately. Every thought that had gone through his head in the past 2 years about Jody that he hadn't said aloud, he was saying now. He wasn't even thinking about it first.
He turned on the tv and ate the whole pizza by himself. He felt bad about that later, so he worked out a little extra the next week.