Chapter 8
"Ok." She began, "Cooper. Cooper, I don't love you. I never ever, ever, ever have, ok? It's time for you to get over me. And I'm sure your company will do fine with out me. I'm not coming back and you can't change my mind."
Cooper glared at Jody, and hen at Charlie. He got up and left, his coat still on the hook in the wall. He came back a few seconds later to give them all the finger and grad his coat. Jody shrugged him off and to Charlie and Adam. It had been easy, almost fun, to flick off Cooper, but Adam was another story. He was just so sweet and cute, Jody dreaded to hurt him like this.
"Adam? I hardly even know you. I've only meet you twice, and I don't love you. How could I? I don't even know your last name yet, let alone know you enough to love you. I'm sorry. But, if you want, I still want to be friends." Jody said, looking into Adam's big sad brown eyes.
Adam nodded and shifted away from Charlie. He knew that Jody didn't love him, and he couldn't blame her. He just hadn't expected it to be so hard and hurtful when she told him that.
"Charlie, I love you. You know that, so don't worry about Cooper. Okay?"
Charlie smiled and stood up, ignoring Adam. He took Jody's face and held it in his hands. "I love you too." He said before he leaned in to kiss her. Adam cleared his throat and stood up. When neither Charlie nor Jody acknowledged him, he left, leaving them kissing passionately on the couch.
A few hours later Charlie and Jody lay sleeping in his bed. Jody wasn't wearing anything so she shivered, waking Charlie. He looked at his girlfriend, sleeping peacefully in his arms. His doorbell rang and he pulled away, waking Jody up. She blinked silently as she watched Charlie wrap a blue towel around his waist. Then he left his room to answer the door.
He opened the door and saw both his parents standing out in the hallway holding suitcases.
"SURPRISE!" they both yelled.
Mrs. Sims looked at Charlie and raised her eyebrows. "Charlie," she began.
Charlie looked down at himself and quickly slammed the door. He ran back into his room and saw Jody sitting on his bed under the covers. "Hurry!! Get dressed now! My parents are here!" Charlie said, panicking.
Jody sprang out of bed and threw on some underwear, a pair of really short jean shorts and a yellow tube top- no bra, the only clothes available at the time. She was really nervous because she had never met Charlie's parents before, not even before the wedding. And a fine first impression she had just made, sleeping with their son.
Charlie put on some underwear, a pair of guy shorts, and an old red tank. He grabbed Jody be the wrist and in less than 4 minutes he had his arm around Jody and he opened the door.
Mrs. Sims looked at Charlie and Jody and her eyes lit up, as if she finally understood the situation. Mr. Sims tried to ignore what had just happened and hugged his son along with his wife.
"Uh, mom and dad, this is my girlfriend, Jody Sawyer."
"It's nice to meet you Jody dear. Oh, wait! Jody? Jody Sawyer? The Jody Sawyer? The one you almost married?" Mrs. Sawyer asked, her eyes suddenly getting very narrow.
Charlie got very tense and Jody could feel it. "Well, yeah, but let's not get into that." He said.
Mr. Sims sensed his son's nervousness and changed the subject. "So, can we come in now, Charlie?"
"Sure." Charlie mumbled as he moved out the way.
Mr. and Mrs. Sims walked into Charlie's apartment and put their bags down. Jody watched them nervously. She didn't think they liked her very much. First, they must know all about Jody and Cooper and their almost baby, so they probably totally disapproved of that. Next, they had just caught them sleeping together.
Mrs. Sims sat down on one side of the couch, next to Charlie who was in the middle. Jody was on the other side of Charlie and he had her arms around her. He would occasionally give her small kisses on he cheek while they all talked.
"So, Charlie?" Mr. Sims asked, "What have you been up to lately?"
Charlie thought a moment before answering. "Well, as you know, I broke up with Jamalee, had a son, and got back with the only girl I've ever loved." Jody smiled when he said this and waited for someone to respond.
"So how is my precious little grandson anyway?" Mrs. Sims cooed.
"He's okay. He's at Jamalee's now."
"Oh Vinney! We must visit little Erik while we are here!" Mrs. Sims squeaked to Mr. Sims. Mr. Sims ignored her, but nodded to acknowledge her speaking.
"So, how long are you staying?" Jody asked.
"Only a few days, probably only about a week."
Charlie sighed in relief and looked at Jody.
"So Charlie. When you said the only girl you ever loved, did you mean Jonnie here?"
"Jody, Dad. And yes, I did."
"What about Jamalee and Sandra?" Mr. Sims asked.
"No."
"Sandra?" Jody asked.
"I'll tell you later." Charlie said.
"Are you sure, Charlie?" Mr. Sims asked again.
"Yes, Dad. I love her."
"Humph!" Mr. Sims grunted.
Jody could feel Charlie tense up again. She gave him a reassuring smile, but it didn't help. He just sat there, trying not to explode.
"Charles, speaking of Sandra, I saw her the other day at K-MART. I told her we were coming to visit you and she said she'd be up tomorrow! Isn't that nice?" Mrs. Sims said.
Charlie could feel a vein start to stick out of his neck. He angrily stood up. "Excuse me." He said and went into his room. He shut the boor and plopped down onto his bed.
"So, Jody, tell us about your self. You're a dancer too, right?" Mrs. Sims said after a moment.
Jody glared at her for a second before standing up. "Excuse me." She said and opened Charlie's door. She locked it behind her and turned around to face Charlie.
She stood in the middle of the floor and Charlie held her in his arms. He began to kiss her. After about 10 minutes Charlie's parents barged through the door, holding a screwdriver and the doorknob. They saw Charlie and Jody making out. Charlie's shirt was on the floor, along with Jody's tube top.
Mr. Sims coughed and Jody screamed. She grabbed he shirt off the floor and ran across the room into the small walk in closet. Charlie looked at his parents, totally horrified. He picked up his tank and shoved it on over his head. Jody was still in the closet, hiding her half-naked body.
Charlie led his parents back out into the main room and suggested they got rent their hotel room. They agreed, picked up their suitcases, and left.
Charlie slowly entered his room again. Jody was still in the closet. "Jody?" Charlie called out.
"Charlie? I'm sooooo embarrassed! Your parents aren't supposed to see me naked!"
"I know, I know! They weren't supposed to walk in on us after sleeping together either."
"Well, yeah." Jody said, coming out of the closet. She was wearing one of Charlie's old large sweatshirts. "Where did they go?"
"To the hotel?"
Charlie kissed Jody softly before they went out to the couch. Charlie put his hand around her and they turned on the tv. When Mr. and Mrs. Sims returned, Charlie was on top of Jody and they were kissing- in their clothes- on the couch. Mr. Sims smiled and went peacefully back to the hotel, dragging his wife behind him.
"So," Jody asked later that night, "Who's Sandra?"
Charlie sighed. "She was my girlfriend before ABA, you remember, the one who dumped me."
"Yeah? And?"
"And we were really close. We were only 18, so we weren't going to get married or anything. I think she might have loved me, but I didn't love her. I didn't really know what love was then, I was only just barley 18. When she dumped me, I figured I'd be heart-broken for life. But it actually didn't hurt much at all."
"So what was with her this afternoon?"
"Well, we used to say we loved each other, and she did. I didn't, but everyone thought that I did and that we'd get married and all. We didn't, of course, and…… I dunno." Charlie shrugged and looked at Jody, hoping that covered all she wanted to know.
"Oh. I see. When was the last time you saw her?"
"The day we broke up."
"Oh." Jody said, sounding a little weird.
"Are you okay?" Charlie asked.
"What's going to happen tomorrow when she comes?"
"I don't know. Let's get some sleep, ok?"
They went and crawled under the warm covers of Charlie's be and fell asleep.
When they woke-up the next morning they hurried and got dressed. Charlie put on blue Hawaii print guy shorts and a white tank. Jody put on a short light blue skirt and a lime-green spaghetti strap shirt. She fixed her hair up all nice and waited.
At exactly 2pm the doorbell rang. Both Charlie and Jody went to answer it. Jody opened the door, and a tall, thin girl was standing outside. She had strait brown hair and looked a little like Maureen. She was wearing flare blue jeans and an orange tube-top.
"Hey! I'm Sandra Evans." She said sweetly.
