CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER SEVEN

~~ Authors Note: Yes! I know the end is a total rip off on "FRIENDS" but who cares? ~~

Jody pulled out of Charlie's embrace and opened the door. Her mother walked in and looked at Charlie. She raised her hand and touched part of her face around her mouth. Charlie raised his hand and felt a wet spot were Jody's cherry lip-gloss had rubbed of. He quickly rubbed it off with his sleeve and looked back up.

"Jody, you have a visitor." Mrs. Sawyer said.

"I do?"

"Yes."

"Uh, ok. I'll be down in a moment."

"Ok." Mrs. Sawyer left.

Jody turned to Charlie. "Who could be visiting me?"

"Maybe one of your old friends."

"Yeah, probably."

"I'll stay up here and un-pack."

Jody smiled. "Ok." She went down stairs.

There was a guy her age sitting on the couch. Jody didn't recognize him at first, but after studying him for a bit she knew exactly who it was. Just as hot and cutter than ever.

"JAKE!!" Jody exclaimed.

"Jody, is something wrong dear?" Her mother called from the kitchen.

"No." Jody said. She grabbed Jake by the wrists and dragged him outside to the porch. "What the hell are you doing here?"

"I wanted to see you."

"Why?"

"Because I miss you."

"Jake!"

"What?"

"You can't be here!"

"Why not?"

"I went out on a date with you and you had a girlfriend!"

"I know I know! I was so wrong! I broke up with her that night you called."

"For me?"

"Yes."

"Then why didn't you call?"

"Because I forgot your number!"

"And what about my parents?" Jody said trying not to shout.

"I didn't want to ask them."

"Ok. Whatever."

"I haven't gone out with anyone since then."

"Oh my God Jake! You're telling me you haven't gone out on a date in 2 freaking years?"

"Yes."

"WHY??"

"Because I really like you."

"And?"

"And I wanted to wait to see you again. So maybe I could get you back. Because you are the most amazing person I have ever met."

Jody sighed and rolled her eyes. "Jake! This is insane! We met once! We kissed once! I was a long once, but still! I called you once and you cheated on me once!"

Jake looked into her eyes and kissed her softly. "Make that twice."

Jody stepped back and slapped him. She ran back inside and up to her room. Charlie was kneeled on the floor, bent over his suitcase. He looked up at her and smiled. He stood and hugged her.

"Who was it?"

"A jerk." Jody said coolly.

Charlie stepped back. "What? Who is it?"

"This guy my Mom set me up with once. It was two years ago. He said he hasn't gone on a date yet because he liked me so much. So basically, here is the guy just out of college who hasn't gone on a date in 2 years because he went on one date with me! How insane! And get this! We... well, I liked him and we were… at his apartment- nothing big happened mind you- and then I called him the next night. And he had a girlfriend and this was only about a month after we broke up. So I was really mad and then he said he broke up with her right then. How insane is this??"

"Really insane. Look, I can understand why he likes you, I mean, hello! But do you want me to go down and talk to him or something?"

"Not really. But you can come down with me."

"OK." Charlie agreed.

They both went downstairs. She led him out to the porch where Jake was still standing. Jody stood still and Charlie wrapped his arms around her waist and rested his chin on her shoulder. He loved doing that. Jake looked at them in confusment and what almost looked like disgust.

"Jody?" Jake asked.

"Jake, I want you to meet Charlie Sims."

"Charlie Sims? You told me you two had broken up."

"We had. But we got back together a month ago and now we are engaged." Jody held out her hand.

"After only a month?"

"Actually, after 2 days." Charlie corrected.

"That's messed up."

"No. I love him. I always have. And now I live in California, with Charlie."

"California? So I take it you won't be visiting all that often."

"Well, I won't be visiting you, that's for sure."

Jake looked heart broken.

"Oh come on Jake! You met me once! And that was 2 whole years ago! Get over it already!"

"I can't!"

"WHY NOT?? THIS IS SO STUPID!!"

"I think I love you."

"AHHH! OH MY GOD!!! JAKE! LET ME REFRASE THIS! YOU MET ME ONE WHOLE TIME, 2 YEARS AGO!! WE WEREN'T EVEN TOGETHER FOR MORE THAN 2 HOURS!"

"I know. But Charlie, you understand, right? How can you not love her?"

"Jake, I don't know you. And you don't know Jody. I can't say I hate you and you can't say you love Jody. It just doesn't work that way."

"I though you loved me at first sight!" Jody teased Charlie.

"Nope. I spent day after day after day for a few months. I mean, I immediately had a crush on you, because you were beautiful and talented and so nice. But it takes more the first sight to love." Charlie said, directing the last part to Jake.

"You two are in some giant love bubble!" Jake said.

"Yup." Jody smiled.

"Fine! But you said that you like me! And I'll never marry thanks to you and Charlie! Go around with that on your back for the rest of your life!" Jake turned and left.

Jody sighed and stepped away from Charlie. She sat down on one of the wooden chairs and put her head on her hands.

Charlie sat down and hugged her. "Please, don't cry."

Jody sighed and forced the tears not to fall. Charlie hugged her and kissed her soft hair.

Mrs. Sawyer came out. "What happened to Jake?"

Jody shrugged and ran up to her room. Charlie smiled warmly at Jody's mother before chasing after his fiancée.

~~~~~ Back In San Francisco ~~~~~

Jody fell on to the bed and fell asleep. She was exhausted. She had just gotten home from her parents and she wasn't used to the time change yet. Charlie walked in after her and put their bags down. He lay down next to Jody and fell asleep.

They woke up the next morning they woke up and went to the company. Dirk hadn't been at work since Jody had come back from New York. But he was there today. He saw Jody alone and went up to her.

"Hey! I thought this Charlie gut joined. Where is he? Did you two break up… again?"

"No! Dirk, he's just in the bathroom."

Dirk's smile faded. "Oh, I see."

Just then Charlie came up behind Jody. He wrapped his arms around her waist and rested his chin on her shoulder (I told you he loved doing that). He looked up a Dirk. "Honey, who's this?"

"Uh, Charlie, meet Dirk Andrews. Dirk, meet my fiancée, Charlie Sims."

Dirk starred at then for a minute. "So, this is Charlie? You're engaged? You just told me you were back together."

"Yeah, but that Friday, he proposed."

"Whoa! That's soon."

"Yeah. Well, I couldn't see why we should wait any longer. Though, we aren't gonna get married for a while, it's still a great feeling just to know for sure that we are." Charlie said.

"It's still not for total sure." Dirk said coldly and walked away.

Jody turned to Charlie and shrugged before going off to change. Charlie stared off in the direction Dirk went before snapping out of it and going into the bathrooms.

~~~ THAT FRIDAY NIGHT ~~~

Sergei, Galina, Jody, and Charlie all decided to go to a dance club on Friday night. Sergei invited Dirk, and even though Jody and Charlie weren't totally comfortable with this, they agreed to let him come. Dirk wanted to show Jody that he had moved on so he invited Jessie, his friend. Though Jody knew they were just friends, and never anything more.

Charlie and Jody danced the whole time tuning out the world as usual. The music was live, but Galina requested that the singers sing a certain song and they agreed.

Charlie and Jody were dancing when they started singing "If I Were The One" from the ABA workshop.

Charlie smiled at Jody.

"Oh my God! I love this song!"

Charlie laughed. "Yeah, me too. Except the whole… Cooper thing."

Jody shook her head. "So then do you hate the Michael Jackson song?"

"Oh yeah."

Jody smiled and kissed Charlie. He held her close and she rested her head on his soulder. She looked over at Galina who smiled knowingly at her. Jody smiled back and closed her eyes. She was lost in thought when the song ended and Charlie spun her around. She bounced out of it and started dancing. They danced the whole rest of the time except when Charlie went to the bathroom.

Dirk asked Jody to dance and she said yes. So the danced for one song, and that was it.

Some time after mid-night they all went home.

Charlie and Jody crawled into bed and curled up next to each other.

"I know you're not ready, but when do you want to have a wedding?"

Jody shrugged. "November, or April, or June, or August whenever."

"I mean like how long?"

"I'm not sure. But shouldn't we be together for awhile before we get married? We've only been back together for a month." Jody said sleepily.

Sure."

Jody smiled.

Charlie looked down at her and saw that she was asleep. He turned of the lights and closed his eyes.

The next morning Jody woke up and saw Charlie standing at the foot of the bed smiling.

"Morning." Jody yawned.

"Hi. Can I ask you something, because it's been bugging me since last night."

"Sure, what's up?"

"How come you never danced with me like you did with Dirk?"

"What are you talking about?"

"You two were like on fire. And we were just sorta dancing."

"That's just because you can't see what we look like when you and me dance. That's why Dirk asked me to dance. He said he wanted to have tome fun. I was like whatever but I said yes anyway. Trust me, I was no where as 'on fire' with him as I am with you. And besides, you are a way better dancer."

Charlie to up. "Ok?"

"He just has a different fire inside of him."

"Are you saying I don't have a fire?"

"NO! Charlie, would you listen to yourself? You know, someday I'm gonna find out what the hell you did at Sergei's bachelor party and no matter how small it is, I'm gonna turn around and stuff into your face just like you are now."

"Hello? What do ink I did? I was drunk out of mind!"

"Yeah?" Jody was getting confused. "I was drunk last night."

"So was I! But not as half as I was that night! Ok? So what the hell do you think I did? What did you expect? So what if I got drunk? So what if I slept with this totally drunk dancer girl? I was drunk!" Charlie yelled, realizing to late what he said.

Jody looked at Charlie. "You what?" She hissed.

Charlie's eyes widened. "Got drunk." He offered.

Jody stood up and slapped Charlie across the face as hard as she could. Then she locked herself in the bathroom.

Charlie fell asleep on the bed and didn't wake up until almost 11am. He didn't call the company. He didn't care. He wasn't hungry. He wasn't bored. He wasn't sad. He felt completely dead inside. How could he be so stupid?

Jody came home around 2pm. Charlie ran up to her and she stepped back.

"Look, Jody, I'm sorry. I told you, I was drunk!"

"And that's supposed to just fix everything?"

"No. Of course not. Nothing can ever make up for what I've done to you, but-"

"That's right! Nothing!" Jody snapped.

Jody, Jody I love you. You know I do. I love you. I've never loved anyone else at all. I can't imagine my life or the world for that matter with out you in it. You have no idea what kind of living hell it has been for me this past year without you. But then I saw you again and my heart went crazy. It skipped a beat I swear! It hasn't done that in a year. If you leave me now, I don't know what I'm going to do. All I know is that I can't live without you in my life for more than 10 seconds! I love you." Charlie could feel hot tears start to run down his face. "Jody?"

Jody just stared at him. "Charlie. I love you. But what you did, how wrong it was, can never be forgiven! Even in the little perfect world we shared, it can't happen. Did Sergei?"

Charlie looked into her eyes. "Yes." He said softly.

"Oh My God! You know, I should go tell her. I should go tell her what kind of loser she is marrying. But I'm not going to. And do you know why?"

Charlie didn't try to stop the tears. He shook his head.

"Because it would hurt her to much." Jody said icily as she began to cry.

Charlie went to comfort her but Jody pulled back.

"Out! I want you out! Out of the apartment and… out of my life! I don't care I never see you again! I want you out! Now!" Jody grabbed her purse back up and left again.

Charlie just stood there. He felt like dying.

~~~ 1 Week Later ~~~

There was a knock on the door to Jody's apartment. Jody figures it was Galina again, but she wasn't in the mood. She lifted herself off the couch anyway and went to answer the door. She opened it and a tall guy her age was standing there. He was obviously not a ballet dancer, but he was really hot. He had long eyelashes- the kind every girl would die to have- and bright green eyes. He was really cute and his carefully chosen clothes brought out his appeal.

"Jake!" Jody exclaimed. "What are you doing here?"