Chapter Four
Over the next month, Jason and Carly fell into an easy rhythm as roommates. They hung out most nights, sometimes with the boys there, eating what Carly called "Gourmet dinners" of pizza, nachos, or hamburgers. They laughed more times then they cried, though there were the occasional tears. Like the day Jax came back to Port Charles and announced he was moving to Europe to be with Brenda. Carly came back to the penthouse fuming mad.
Jason was sitting on the couch with Bernie.
"That bastard!" Carly yelled as she slammed the door closed behind her. " He said he was going out of town to see his brother not her. Does everything always have to be ruined by Brenda? Sonny still gets a love struck look on his damn face when he says her name. And you!" she pointed at Jason, accusingly " You married her!"
"For you." he said
"I said distract her" Carly huffed " I never said marry her!"
Jason stood up and Bernie followed his lead. "We'll have to finish this later." Jason said
"Of course. Of course." Bernie said. Then, as he was leaving, he said to Carly " Have a nice day."
"Oh it's been a real thrill so far." she sneered.
Jason closed the door behind Bernie. He said to Carly. "Let Jax go. You don't need him."
Carly plopped on the sofa and cried " I know that. But I wanted him to want me."
"Why?"
She looked at him and said softly "It makes a girl feel good."
Jason sat down next to her. "Do you love him?"
Carly's eyes locked with Jason's. "Not like I love you." she said
He stilled.
"Forget Jax." Jason said ignoring her admission "Who needs him, anyway? You've been happy this last month without him around, right?"
"Yes. But I've been here with you. If I move home I'll be spending my nights alone again. Or I'll have to go out and find a new man in a town full of bores. I don't even have any hopes of meeting The One out on some date with a new guy. And that is depressing as hell."
"Does everything have to come back to this theory about The One for you?"
"Yes."
"And if you never find him?"
"Oh, I found him already. But the problem is he doesn't want me anymore."
Jason could swear her eyes were saying it was him but his mind wondered if it could be Sonny or, worse, Jax.
And if it was him Jason didn't want that. He couldn't give her a marriage and this dream life she just couldn't stop aching for. Better to not even go there.
"Then move on." Jason said "Find a man who does. Until then you have me and you can stay here as long as you want."
Carly nodded her head slowly. She moved close to him on the couch.
Tears came to her eyes, "I want to stay here forever. Would that be too long?"
Jason's own eyes pricked with unshed tears. This woman could get to him like no other. But he couldn't lie to her so he said, hoarsely, "I don't think that would be a very good idea."
"I think you're wrong about that, Jase." She raised his hand and put it over her heart. Holding it there she said, "This is yours. Stop walking away from it. You're making us both miserable and it doesn't have to be this way."
We're part of the same place,
We're part of the same time.
We both share the same blood.
We both have the same mind.
And time and time we have so much to share.
No! No, no, no, no, no!
I'm not waking up tomorrow morning
And finding that there's nobody there.
Dreamgirls lyrics
