CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Several Days Later, The Day Before The Wedding…

Coming home from the rehearsal and lunch, everyone gathered in Sergei and Galina's apartment.

"So what should we do on our last day of 13 un-married friends?"

They all looked at each other and shrugged. After a while, Erik finally spoke up.

"Why don't we all just go rent a movie or something?" He suggested.

Everyone agreed and piled into 3 different cars and drove to the nearest blockbuster. After a long debate, they all finally decided and drove back home. Settling in to watch the movie, Kellie made a point to sit next to Charlie. He didn't seem to mind much, because he had Jody on the other side of him. Sergei put in the movie around 8pm and they all waited for it to start. Jody rested her head on Charlie's head and watched as "Physco" began to play on the screen. They had chosen this movie over their other horror choices, "Silence of the Lambs", and "The Shinning." Everyone agreed, but no one knew why. This was the day before Sergei and Galina's wedding! Wouldn't they want to get sleep?

Holding Charlie closer as Jody became more frightened, they both stared at the screen mesmerized. As the old lady's skeleton turned around in the chair, Kellie screamed and jumped practically on top of Charlie. When he didn't do anything about it, Jody let go of him as the man tackled the other disguised man on the tape. She wrapped her arms around herself and leaned against the back of the couch.

When the movie was over, everyone except Sergei, Galina, and Kellie left the apartment. Kellie was staying in the guestroom. Jake and Dirk went to their apartments in the same building and everyone else went back to the hotel.

Charlie lay on the large, comfy bed, waiting for Jody. When she came and lay down next to him, he rolled over and kissed her. She pushed him off of her and rolled over to her side of the bed.

"What's wrong?" Charlie asked.

Jody shook her head. "Nothing."

Charlie sat up and looked down at Jody. "No, really. Did I do something?"

Jody sighed and sat up. "Why didn't you stop Kellie when she practically jumped on top of you? She was all over you!"

"Well, what was I supposed to do?"

"Gee, I dunno." Jody said as she placed her earrings and engagement ring on the nightstand. "Maybe something like, 'hey, get off. i'm already engaged. i'm in love.' I mean, anything would have worked."

"I… I didn't know it meant so much to you."

"Oh come one! You're allowed to hate every guy that looks at me but I can't dislike that this girl is ALL OVER YOU and you do NOTHING about it."

Charlie sighed. "Look, Jody, I didn't even notice she was there hardly. I was just watching the movie!"

"Yeah, sure, that's why you were grinning so much."

"Jody! I was smiling at the movie because… it… was funny."

Jody threw herself down on her side and faced away from Charlie. "Excuses, excuses! That's all you ever say."

"Jody, why are you making such a big deal out of this?"

"Ha! How can I not? After what you did to me… it's hard not to."

Charlie closed his eyes and nodded. "Ok… look… I love you. I'm really, truly sorry about tonight. If she does anything else… I do something then, ok?"

Jody nodded and lay back down. Closing her eyes, she muttered, "Ok."

Charlie sighed and rested his head on the pillow. Falling asleep, he prayed that their fighting was over for now. He hated fighting with anyone (except maybe Cooper), but he especially hated fighting with Jody. Starting each fight, he wondered if it would be their last. What if the fight got so big, they broke-up again. Charlie knew he couldn't handle having his heart broken again, even if it was his fault.

P.S. WHY WUZ "FATE" DELETED? IT WUZ MY FAVE!!