Story Title: New Love

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Chapter Title: In the End

Song: In the End by Linkin Park

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"Carly!" Courtney calls as she pounds on the Penthouse door "Carly, are you home?" A bewildered Carly opens the door. "Hey, hey Courtney what is it? What's wrong?" Carly asks ushering her inside the Penthouse. "Oh Carly, this is bad." Courtney says, "This is really, really bad." "What is it Court? Come on what's wrong?" Carly presses her friend. "Oh God it's Jason…" Courtney begins. Carly interrupts, "Oh my God is Jason okay? Was Sonny with him? Are they alright?" "Carly they're fine, they're okay it's nothing like that." Courtney reassures her, "Are Sonny and Michael here?" "No, Sonny and Leticia took Michael to the park." Carly answers. "Good," Courtney says "I really need to talk to just you, things are bad between me and Jason." Carly looks at Courtney skeptically, "How bad?" "Really bad." Courtney answers.

All I know

time is a valuable thing

Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings

Watch it count down to the end of the day

The clock ticks life away

It's so unreal

"Okay, you and Jase had a fight, it's nothing new, everyone fights. Give him a day or two and he'll get over it." Carly suggests. Courtney chokes back her tears, "No Carly this time is different. This was a really big fight and I don't know how we are going to get past it." "Courtney, you and Jason love each other, okay, a lot like Sonny and me and we're doing fine! We fight, we make up, we move on. Sometimes are worse than others, but we get over it and I'm sure you and Jase will too." Carly tells her. "But Carly," Courtney begins, 'You don't know the whole story." "Okay, then tell me the whole story, what did someone threaten you guys again?" Carly asks. "No, it's nothing like that and before you ask no Jason didn't do anything to me." Courtney starts. "Then what happened?" Carly urges.

Didn't look out below

Watch the time go right out the window

Trying to hold on



but didn't even know Wasted it all just to

Watch you go

"Okay here it goes." Courtney began as Carly was listening intently, "I don't remember much about the fight, but it was one of the biggest ones we have had. I got angry and so did he, I yelled, he yelled, I threw things, they hit him. It was really bad. He started to leave, but I stormed out before him, and went to Jake's. I must have had to much to drink and I don't remember much else from that night." Carly is starting to get the idea of what went on but she is trying to dismiss it, "Courtney, where are you going with this?" Carly asks though she already knows. "Well when I woke up yesterday morning, I though it was an ordinary day, though I was hung over I thought I was at home." Courtney says no longer able to contain her tears, looking right at Carly who is visibly angry. "Go on." Carly says in such a cold, hard voice it gives Courtney chills.

I kept everything inside

and even though I tried



it all fell apart

"Well," Courtney continues shakily, "I woke up and I wasn't in the Penthouse, but I still expected to turn over and see Jason lying next to me since I didn't remember our fight. Umm… I turned over and there was someone lying next to me…but it wasn't Jason." Courtney takes another look at Carly and thinks to herself 'if looks could kill'. "Who was it?" Carly asked, her voice rising as she stands up. "Carly," Courtney continues "Listen it was a mistake I didn't know what I was doing I swear I would never do that to Jason. Carly's eyes are like ice as she asks even louder "Who was next to you?" "Carly, please don't be angry, think about the baby." Courtney pleads. Carly, who is unable to hold in her anger says "Damn it Courtney, my baby is fine now who did you sleep with?" "I never said I slept with him…" Courtney tries to say but Carly interrupts with " You didn't have to say it, if you woke up in bed with someone you obviously slept with them, now who was it? Oh-oh my God, did you sleep with Ric? It was Ric wasn't it?" Courtney is crying and finds some anger at Carly's accusation, and yells back "No! Of course I didn't sleep with Ric, I wouldn't do that, I would never do that." "Well then who was it?" Carly screamed. "It was AJ, alright! Are you happy now? I slept with AJ, but it was a mistake I swear!" Courtney cries.

What it meant to me will eventually



be a memory of a time

I tried so hard and got so far

But in the end

It doesn't even matter

"Oh my God, no. Carly screams, "AJ? Why would you do that to Jason? Why?" At this time Carly almost runs to the door and flings it open. Courtney pleads with her, "Please Carly, please…try to understand." "No!" Carly yells, "this is going to kill Jason!" "Jason already knows. I wasn't going to tell him, but Emily tricked me into doing it." Courtney explained. Carly who is still standing by the open door says in an eerily calm voice, "Well then I owe a lot to Emily, get out." "Carly you don't mean that I know you don't!" Courtney says. Carly's anger is once again visible, "Get out of my house, now before I call Johnny, you are no longer welcome here." Courtney's tears are streaming down her face as she leaves.

I had to fall

To lose it all

Carly slams the door crying too, as Sonny comes down the stairs, saying "Jason called me and was to angry to talk, he said to stay home and I would probably hear the whole thing from Courtney. I didn't want you to know I was here so I told Leticia to tell you I was already at the park." Carly looks up at her husband saying, "I don't want her in my house again." "Don't worry, if Jason gets it his way, you won't see her in Port Charles again." Sonny told her.

But in the end

It doesn't even matter