Exit Stage Left 7/

Exit Stage Left 7/?

By: Fele414

Sorry it has taken so long to update, but I've been really really busy. I barely have time to write this, so you can only imagine the time I have to read over for grammatical errors and whatnot, so please forgive me if some of it's a little rough to read. Keep the reviews coming, if I don't get enough of them I won't continue. Enjoy…

"What do you mean what am I doing here, we agreed I'd be here in a month. Or did you forget, I didn't," Cooper's face was filled with anger. "I didn't forget," Jodi said barely above a whisper. She looked over at Charlie, "um, Charlie could we have a few minutes alone." His gaze fell to the ground looking almost defeated. "Sure," he said, "it wouldn't be the first time you chose Cooper Nielson over me," the last part so low neither of the other two heard him. "I'll meet you back at the studio, okay?" "Yeah, I'll see you there."

"So you and Charlie huh, figures," "it's not how it looks," Jodi sighed in frustration. "Look, there's just something between me and Charlie that you'd never understand," "well what is it?" She looked away, I was pregnant with his child, she wanted to say. "I can't tell you," "you can't tell me?" Cooper began to circle around her putting his hand to his chin, "well let's see what could it be," "jesus Coop, what is your deal with Charlie. We're just friends." "My deal," he ran up to her grabbing her arms, "my deal is that my girlfriend never stopped loving him, even while you pretended to love me. Look at me Jodi, look what you're doing to me. I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't dance because of you. I call you 10 times a day and every time they tell me you're out with Charlie. I mean what could it be, did you have his kid or something?" Jodi's face froze in horror giving Cooper his answer, "that's it isn't it, you and Charlie had a kid." Jodi pulled away from him, "no, of course that's not it. What would make you say such a thing, how dare you Coop." "Eva told me," Jodi stopped in her tracks and spun around to him, "look I don't know what Eva told you, but," "damn it Jodi, stop lyeing to me, stop lying to yourself." Jodi now crying looks away from Cooper unable to look at him. "I have to go," she managed to say, "I have to get back to rehearsal. Why don't you give me a call later tonight and we can talk." "Sure, whatever."

Jodi made the long trek back to the dance hall however; the journey seemed a lonely this time around. The winds that seemed so magical just a half an hour ago now seemed threatening. Just off in the distance dark clouds threatened down pour, urging Jodi to push forward or risk getting soaked. Now within view of the studio she could see Charlie standing by the stairs. A smile stretched across her lips, but soon disappeared once she noticed Katie standing with him. Katie saw Jodi approaching in the distance and grabbed Charlie kissing him passionately. She tried not let it affect her, but she couldn't help it. Charlie pulled away looking up to see Jodi walking toward them. He went to call her name but Katie saw to that and pulled him into another kiss. Pulling away he was too late, she ran up the stairs into the building before he could get a word out. He looked at his girlfriend and sighed, "look I have to get back, why don't we meet up afterward I really need to be with you right now." She placed her palm on his cheek and smiled wickedly, "whatever you want darling."

During the rest of rehearsal neither one of the two said a word to each other. The tension between the two was obvious and Bouvier could sense something was wrong. "Okay, what's going on here? You guys just are concentrating, Jodi you arms look like to pieces of spaghetti and Charlie, your center's off." He waited for a response from them, but neither spoke up. "Alright then, maybe you guys just need a break. I'll call it quits for tonight, but I want you two here half an hour early tomorrow so we can work on warm ups together." Jodi grabbed her bag and ran out of there before Charlie could even catch up to her.

Later that night…

Jodi sat crying on the couch with a box of tissues in her hand. Jen walked into the room looking at Jodi, "girl why are you crying now? Oh, it's Sleepless in Seattle, I love this movie yo." Jen sat down and after a few minutes she was crying to. "I hate this part man. When she finds the backpack and thinks she missed them." "Ssshhhh," Jodi tried to quite her down, "look the elevator's opening.

Suddenly the front door flew open and Katie came running in. "You bitch," "which one," Jen asked. "Her! I'm sure you had nothing to do with Charlie breaking up with me tonight, now did you? What, it's not enough that you had Cooper Nielson, you had to take my man too?" Jodi felt a ping of anger growing within the pit of her stomach, the likes she had never felt. All the pent up frustration and stress from Charlie, the new ballet, and Katie was finally about to be released. "Look, I have no idea what your talking about, but you have no clue what Charlie and I have been through what we were." "Exactly," Katie pointed her finger at her, "what you were! Charlie's mine now, I've worked hard at making him happy and you come here and in just a few weeks you ruin everything!" "You know what? You're attitude really sucks, and I am not going to put up with it anymore! You hear me! You may think Charlie loves you, but there will always be a piece of him that you can never touch, the piece that belongs to me. And as much as you want to deny it, it's a rather large portion. Now if you'll excuse me, the sight of you is making me nauseous." Jodi grabbed her jacket and ran out of the apartment.