ALL MY LIFE
PART SIXTEEN
"Come on Jody. What's wrong?"
Jody turned to Scott, offended. "What's wrong?? Five years ago the love of my life left me to go to Russia. Now, the new man I love leaves me too. That's what's wrong!"
Scott felt horrible, he had forgotten all about the Charlie in Russia thing. "Oh, gosh. I'm sorry Jody. I forgot- I didn't realize… I'm sorry. I don't ever wanna hurt you, I love you. I… I don't have to go."
Jody looked into Scott's eyes and saw how much he wanted to go, and how he was giving up everything for her. She sighed and shook her head. "No, no, go. But… we have to visit every weekend."
Scott smiled and kissed Jody. "Thank you. Thanks you. Thank you so much."
Jody giggled and pulled back. "Whoa, ok. Don't over do it there."
Scott sighed happily. "I love you."
"I know." Jody smiled. "And you owe me big time!"
Scott smiled slyly. "Now?"
Jody giggled and sprang out of the bed. "No!" She shrieked. "Besides, we have that big lunch thing in like an hour. We should start getting ready."
"Oh yeah…" Scott mumbled and climbed out of the bed.
A while later Scott and Jody emerged form their room. Jody was wearing a sparkling ankle length blue dress with this straps across the back and spaghetti straps from below the shoulder. Scott was wearing nice black dress pants and a black over coat thingy with a nice white tee shirt under it.
"You look so beautiful." Scott said, not taking his eyes off Jody.
Jody smiled and blushed slightly. "Thanks. You look great too…" Jody's voice trailed off when she saw Charlie in the lobby,
Charlie met her gaze but looked away quickly. They hadn't seen each other since their kiss the day before. Charlie kept sneaking glances at Jody the whole after noon. She looked so beautiful… and then there was Scott. They didn't leave each other's side the whole night, so it's not like Charlie could have gone up and talked to her. Though he tried.
"Um, hi Jody… Scott." Charlie said.
Scott and Jody turned around to face him slowly. Scott gave him a look that clearly told them he had interrupted one of their moments. Charlie smiled weakly and tried to calm the butterflies in his stomach.
"Hey Charlie." Jody said awkwardly.
"Charlie…" Scott nodded at him.
"Is something wrong?" Jody asked, noticing his nervousness.
"No, no, I'm fine. I was just wondering if I could talk to Jody alone." Charlie said, trying not to sound to lame.
"Oh, sure." Jody said, and pulled out of Scott's embrace.
Scott watched unhappily as Jody and Charlie walked off together.
"Um, Jody, about that… kiss yesterday…" Charlie said, waiting for Jody to cut him off. She didn't, but he kept on waiting.
"Yeah?" Jody finally asked.
"Um… if you could just, like, not tell Kathy, I'd appreciate it a lot."
Jody shrugged and nodded. "Sure Charlie. Oh! And you know how you said now we could be friends since we're actually talking again?"
"Uh huh." Charlie mumbled, a little disappointed at the outcome of the kiss conversation. Had that kiss really meant nothing to her?
"Well, Scott's moving here to be on Broadway-"
Charlie started to laugh, but stopped abruptly when he saw Jody glaring at him. "Sorry."
"Yeah. Well, so he's moving here, right? Which means I'll be up here a lot visiting and all. So, you know, since that's all convenient, we can start hanging out again. You know, like friends."
Charlie nodded. "Sure, that sounds great. Look… Jody-"
Just then Scott came up behind them and wrapped his arms around Jody's waist. "Hey guys." He said, giving her a small kiss on the back of her neck.
"Hey Scott…" Charlie mumbled. "Well, I guess I should be getting back to Kathy. But, It'll be great to do that again Jody. See ya." Charlie said and walked away.
Jody spun around in Scott's arms and kissed him softly. "Hey."
"Do what again?" Scott asked, glaring at Charlie as he left them.
"Oh, just hang out. You know, since I'll be up here a lot with you moving."
Scott nodded. "Oh… is that how you did it with Charlie?"
"Huh?"
"When you guys were together, did you drive 2 hours every weekend to see him?"
"Oh no. We moved in together in this apartment that was on hour away from Coop's company and an hour away from ABC. But I don't wanna do that again."
"So you drove 2 hours everyday??"
"Yeah… kinda stupid now that I think about it. But, you know, we just wanted to see each other. But it makes a lot more sense doing it this way, don't you think?"
"Sure Jody. Whatever you say…" Scott murmured as he kissed her again.