Title: Because I Need You (7?)
Author: AngelicTorture
Disclaimer: I own nothing and no one you recognize.
Rating: PG 13(may change as the story goes on)
Distribution: Ask and you shall receive.
Spoilers: None so far.
Notes: Response to challenge posted by andonly at litafics on LJ. This part show's John's p.o.v of the 6 months since Lita left.
Summery: What do you do when you fall for your best friend?
Part 7: You're not here and I'm not there.
Do not get me wrong I cannot wait for you to come home
For now you're not here and I'm not there, it's like we're on our own
To figure it out, consider how to find a place to stand
Instead of walking away and instead of nowhere to land
This is going to break me clean in two
This is going to bring me close to you
She is everything I need that I never knew I wanted
She is everything I want that I never knew I needed – She Is by The Fray
John starred after the redhead's retreating form and tried to shake off the feeling that he might never see her again. He sat down sadly on the bed, he couldn't remember a day in his life that he hadn't spoken to her or at least thought about her. She was more than just a best friend to him, she was the best part of his life and he'd let her slip through his fingers. With a heavy sigh he got up and made his way down the hall.
xxxXXxxx
2 days later.
John was sitting in his locker room sulking. He hadn't smiled in 2 days and he hadn't been able to stop thinking about Lita. He had his phone in his hand, her number on the screen and his finger hovering over the call button.
"Hi baby."
Maria bounced cheerfully into the room. John snapped his phone closed quickly.
"Hey Ria…"
"What's the matter pookie?"
John resisted the urge to vomit; he'd asked her a million times not to call him that.
"Nothing. I'm fine."
"No you're not; you've been a big grump for days." The brunette pouted.
"Maria please stop talking to me like I'm a 5 year old…"
He closed his eyes and leaned his head back.
"Maybe I wouldn't have to if you'd talk to me…you're not still upset that she left are you?"
"She is my best friend Maria so I think I'm allowed to miss her."
A small smirk appeared on the diva's lips.
"I know what might cheer you up…"
"Right now Ria I don't think anything is gonna do that…"
"Not even if I told you I wanna be Mrs. Cena?"
John's eyes snapped open.
"You what?"
"I think we should get married."
"Why? You're not pregnant are ya?"
Maria rolled her eyes.
"No I'm not pregnant. We should get married cause we love each other silly…you do love me don't you?"
"Of course I do." He lied.
Maria squealed and threw her arms around his neck before running out of the room screeching something about her and John being engaged at the top of her voice.
John looked stunned.
"Oh crap…"
xxxXXxxx
1 month later.
Maria and Candice were giggling over wedding magazines. John had at least managed to persuade the excitable diva to limit the number of people who knew, he didn't want Lita to hear about it until he told her himself, if he ever did.
"John what do you think about these flowers?" Maria waved a picture in front of his face.
"They're…very nice." He replied halfheartedly, flowers all looked the same to him. with a sigh he got up and walked outside to sit by his pool.
Why hadn't he just said no, told Maria he couldn't marry her and run straight to Lita? Because as much as he didn't love Maria he still couldn't do that to her, he couldn't break her heart just to make himself happy. He pulled his phone out and dialed the number he knew better than his own. He did this at least once a day, sat starring at her number, his finger always ready to press the call button.
He heard laughter from inside his house and took a deep breath as his finger hit the call button.
"Hello?"
John's heart almost stopped at the sound of her voice.
"John? Is that you?"
He sighed.
"I miss you too John…"
"John where are you?" Maria called from inside. With another sigh he pushed the end call button.
"I'm right here babe…"
xxxXXxxx
5 months past but nothing changed much. John had tried to call the redhead a few times but never had the courage to say anything, just hearing her voice broke his heart. The final preparations were being made for the wedding. Even though they'd agreed to only invite family and a few close friends it was still becoming harder to hide it from everyone.
"Hey man." Randy Orton greeted John early one morning.
"Orton why the hell are you standing on my doorstep at 6 in the morning?"
"Got a house show in town later and the flights got screwed up so I had to get an earlier one. We don't all get to take a vacation whenever we want you know."
The St Luis native stepped past his friend and into the house.
"Oh please come in Randy." John said sarcastically as he closed the door.
"So why the hell do you and Maria get a vacation anyway?"
"No reason…we just felt like it." John lied with a shrug.
Randy sat himself at the kitchen counter while John started making breakfast.
"What's this?" Randy asked, picking up a sheet of paper that was lying on the counter top. John snatched it out of his hand but not before the St Luis native saw what was scribbled on it.
"It's nothing…"
"Dude, that doesn't look like nothing…was that wedding vows? Are you marrying Maria?"
Randy took John's silence to mean yes.
"How can you marry her when we both know you love Li?"
"Will you keep your voice down, Maria's asleep upstairs…"
"Does Li know about this?"
"No…"
"Damn it Cena you really are an idiot you know that…"
Randy was already flying out the door, pulling his phone from his pocket as he went.
"Li…I've got something to tell you…not over the phone…I'm on my way to your place now…"