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.
