Chapter 2: The Arrival

Chapter 2: The Arrival

Jody waited nervously by the door in the airport. Charlie would walk through the door any minute now, and Jody couldn't be more excited or nervous.

Charlie walked through the door. He was wearing khaki pants and a blue Hawaii print shirt. He was carrying a black backpack. He looked around and saw Jody starring at him. She looked so happy. He ran up to her and dropped his stuff on the floor. He hugged her and kissed her on the check. "Jody! You look great! I've missed you!" Charlie said.

"Hi Charlie!" Jody said. She was unbelievably happy to see Charlie, but she wasn't sure how to show it, so she just hugged him again, for a long time. "Oh, I've missed you so much Charlie!"

Charlie was finding it unbelievably hard not kiss Jody. She just looked so good. She smelled even better and she was so hot. He had to use all of his mind force to keep from kissing her.

Jody hugged Charlie some more and then they got the rest of Charlie's luggage. Then they ate lunch at one of the small restaurants at the airport.

After lunch, Jody led Charlie to her car in the parking garage and helped him put his stuff in her car truck and back seat. Then she slid into the driver's seat and Charlie sat in the passenger seat.

When they got to Jody's apartment, she showed Charlie the guestroom and said that Cooper was out at work.

When Cooper got home he took Jody in his arms and started kissing her. Charlie had finished unpacking his suitcase and walked out into the living room/den and saw Jody and Cooper kissing. He felt like a bullet had just been put in his heart. He coughed to announce his presence and Jody pulled away from Cooper, blushing slightly. "Oh hey Charlie. You remember Cooper right?" Jody said.

"Oh, yeah, sure. Hey Coop." Charlie said, and abruptly turned around and went back into the room he'd be staying in until he found his own apartment. He shut the door and plopped down on the bed, thinking about how stupid this move was. He loved Jody so much, but she loved Cooper. He knew if he ever was going to make this move work, he had to get away from Jody and Cooper, before his heart exploded.

Jody knocked on Charlie's door. He got up and opened the door.

"Cooper went out to get us some pizza. He'll be back in about 45 minutes. It's really far away." Jody said.

"Ok." Charlie said. Suddenly he grabbed Jody and started kissing her. He could feel Jody kissing him back, and he pulled he down on to the bed, where they sat kissing for 20 minutes. Jody pulled away and blushed. Then she got up and left the room. Charlie lay back down on the bed and hit himself in the head with his hand several times.

Jody went into her room and kneeled on the floor by the bed. She cried for about 10 minutes and then she got up onto the bed and lay down.

Cooper came in the front door. "Dinner!" he yelled.

Charlie came out of his room first. He greeted Cooper with a hostile handshake, they were both very jealous and competitive of each other. Then Jody appeared from her room. She barely glanced at Charlie, but she hugged and kissed Cooper immediately.

Cooper opened the pizza box and handed out plates. They ate the pizza and watched tv for an hour. Then Charlie got up and went back into his room. Cooper and Jody started kissing again, and Charlie peeked out and saw them.

When it was almost 10pm, Cooper and Jody walked hand in hand into their room. Charlie glared out of his door as he watched them. He got undressed and put on his sleeping pants and crawled into his empty double bed (he didn't wear shirts when he slept). He lay there thinking for hours about the mess he had just mad for himself.

Suddenly, his door opened and Jody peeked in. "Are you awake?" she asked sweetly.

"Yes, I'm still awake." Charlie said.

"May I come in?"

"Yes." Charlie said.

Jody walked in. Charlie couldn't help but notice that she was only wearing a dark green bra and tight blue biker shorts. She sat down at the end of the bed. "I know I can talk to you. I can't talk to Coop because he'll get mad or jealous or something. But I know I can talk to you without you going completely insane. So, what are we going to do? About all this I mean. With me and Coop, me and you, you and Coop. What are we going to do?"

Charlie gulped and began to talk. "Well, you love Cooper. Cooper definatly loves you. So where does that leave it?"

"What about you? How do you feel about Cooper? About me?" Jody asked, thinking out her words carefully before she said them.

Charlie blushed, but in the dark room, Jody didn't notice. "Well," Charlie said, "I'm not exactly friends with Cooper, and I am friends with you." Charlie said.

"No, really Charlie, please, tell me how you really feel. I won't hate you or anything. Please?"

"Well, I, uh, like you as a friend, love you as a friend, like you as a really good friend, love you as a really good friend, like you as-"

"Charlie! If you won't tell me, I'm going to leave now." Jody threatened.

"Jody? I like you. I really like you. I just, I don't know. Jody? I love you. I love you more every second. I can't stand it because I know you don't love me, but I can't help it Jody. I've loved you since I met you in Sergei and Erik's room. I love you." Charlie blurted out.

"Ok." Jody said and got up, left, and shut the door behind her.