Songfic without the song in it! Reposted cause I shouldn't have put the lyrics here! Ooops!
Please look at this link for the song!
You will have to copy it and remove the spaces that I had to put in because it wouldn't let me post it!
But if you can be bothered it would make the story better as you know what I'm thinking.
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Popular Mechanics For Lovers
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First Verse
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Kirsten Nichol was in love. He knew it and he hated it.
She wasn't in love with him.
Sandy Cohen had knocked her off her feet and straight into his heart.
Waspy Kirsten with her bright blonde hair and acid tongue.
Goofy going-to-save-the-world Sandy.
She found him adorable, that much was obvious.
What was she doing?
Kirsten Nichol, the rich, beautiful and bound to be successful Newport Princess with this scruffy, Jewish lawyer from the Bronx.
It just didn't make sense.
It was wrong, Jimmy swore on it.
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Second Verse
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Jimmy Cooper and Kirsten Nichol; that was the way it had always been.
Jimmy and Kirsten Cooper; that was the was it was supposed to be.
That was what everyone expected, the whole of Newport, his family, her family, himself.
It was practically written, given.
Not Sandy and Kirsten Cohen.
Kirsten Cohen.
Kirsten Cohen?
Who was she? She wasn't meant to exist.
It was always Jimmy and Kirsten.
Just Jimmy.
Just Cooper.
Kirsten Cooper.
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Chorus line
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Too true.
Broken hearted.
That was also true.
He'd broken her heart and now she'd broken his in return.
All's fair in love and war.
Broken hearted, married, father-to-be.
One of those didn't fit.
The fact that Kirsten wasn't part of that equation didn't fit.
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Third Verse
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It was a high-school romance, it wasn't a huge romantic relationship but did that matter?
It wasn't exactly exciting, just day-to-day dating but that's what they'd wanted, wasn't it?
Those parts, the lack of romance and suspense in their relationship, Jimmy found easy to forget. It was easy to forget it wasn't always perfect.
In his head it was always perfect. His memories digitally re-mastered to wipe out the not-so-perfect bits.
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Fourth Verse
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So he hadn't been enough for her. He didn't complete her like Sandy did.
They were so obviously made for each other it made Jimmy sick.
He'd never completed Kirsten's world, he never could and never would.
What would he give to rewind and try again?
He would do anything, fall at her feet and beg her to stay. Not go to Berkeley, not meet Sandy Cohen.
He would do anything for her, he would never hurt her, never bring her down.
But he knew it was too late, he'd already brought her down. He'd cheated on her.
That was low; so far down he didn't want to think about it. And he knew he'd hurt her, brought her down into despair.
But now she was flying and he was the one who was down, so down.
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Chorus line
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Could broken hearts ever be mended he wondered.
Certainly Kirsten's had been but then she hadn't broken her own as she broke someone else's.
Perhaps hers hadn't been broken, merely bruised. He loved her more than she had loved him. His heart was definitely broken.
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Fifth Verse
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Jimmy hesitated; he was wrong. Sandy loved Kirsten, he would take a bullet for her, he would cut his heart out for her, and she believed every word he uttered.
He'd lost Kirsten, but at least he'd lost her to a better man.
Sandy would die for her.
Sandy loved her.
Sandy deserved her.
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Sixth Verse
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Jimmy wasn't enough was he Kirsten?
Songs and dreams aren't enough but that's he had now.
So what? She doesn't care.
She shouldn't, it was all his fault.
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Seventh Verse
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There's no sense in trying to change anything, Jimmy knew that. He had been though.
He'd tried to find something that should change her feelings about Sandy but there was nothing, everything that could be a problem they didn't seem to care about.
She was his.
Nothing could make her Jimmy's again and he wouldn't try.
He had tried to talk to her, but there was nothing to say.
He had a wife, a baby, anything he said was pointless, worthless and more often than not, a cliché.
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Chorus line
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Help, that's what he needed but he didn't want it.
What was the point?
He'd had it all and he'd lost it.
A stupid mistake that broke his heart into pieces.
No one and nothing could help.
She was Kirsten Cohen now.
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Fifth Verse Repeat
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He loves you.
I love you too.
But you love him.