This is different to the other stories I've written so I hope you don't hate it. I've written it from Angela's point of view which was a challenge for me as I don't usually write from anyone's point of view. I'm not sure what my nspiration for this was but it came to me and I had to get it out. If you like it I may try to write more like this so I'd appreciate reviews. Thanx, jem
It drives me crazy sometimes. He loves her so much and everyone else can see it but her. Maybe she doesn't see it or maybe she just doesn't want to see it. I'm her best friend but I don't know what's going on in her head half the time. How she can ignore his looks, touches and gestures, or pass them off as innocent and platonic is beyond me.
If those looks, touches and gestures were directed at me, and most of the time I wish they were, I'd have no trouble acting on them. Sure, the gorgeously handsome FBI agent flashes me a flirty smile every once in a while or tells me I look hot. But those comments you really can pass off as platonic. Booth has no interest in me as anything other than a friend. And that surprised me at first. We're very similar Booth and I. He often mentions that I'm the most normal of the 'squints' as he calls us. I thought maybe we'd hit it off, but it soon became very clear that it was 'Bones' he was interested in. Even when he had a girlfriend you could see his heart was with Brennan.
Everyone here knows how he feels and we're all pretty sure Brennan feels something because her face lights up when he arrives. We all see it. But thankfully everyone is too busy looking at her to notice how my face lights up. When he comes around here with a new case I know I'm going to get to spend a little time with him and that's a good feeling. Well for a while anyway. The more of him I see the more I get frustrated and angry that it isn't me he loves and it isn't me he comes to see. By the time the case is over I'm hoping it'll be a while before the next one. Then inevitably I light up the next time he walks through the door and go through the pain all over again.
Sometimes I wish I'd never met the man. But then I think of the impact he's had on my best friend. In the last year she's become so much more open, more social and more trusting. I tried for years to draw this out of her but it took Seely Booth to do it. And if he hadn't come along, Brennan would still be hiding in the lab instead of living her life. I can't wish that away from her no matter how I feel. After everything she's been through in her life she deserves to be happy. But I deserve to be happy too, don't I?
