Every Other Weekend
Naitlyn
AN: don't own the song by Reba McEntire and Kenny Chesney
Every Other Friday
It's toys and clothes and backpacks
Is everybody in?
Ok lets go see dad
Caitlyn turns around in the car to see her kids sitting in the backseat.
"Is everybody in?" She asks her children.
Both kids smile excitedly and say, "Yes mama!"
"Okay. Let's go see dad." Caitlyn puts on a smile and turns around.
She starts the car and backs out of her garage.
Same time in the same spot
Corner of the same old parking lot
Five o'clock at the corner of a parking lot, Caitlyn parks her car and sees him already there. He's standing outside of his car, leaning against the door. She doesn't look at him as she turns off her car and sighs. Caitlyn gets out and helps her children out of the car.
Half the hugs and kisses
There are always sad
We trade a couple words and looks and kids again
Every Other Weekend
"Come give mama a hug." She says to her daughter and son.
They hug her and she kisses the tops of their heads. They run towards their father.
"Daddy!" they both yell excitedly.
They hug their father and he hugs them back.
"Hey, Caitlyn." Nate says politely.
She just nods and watches her children climb into the back of his car. Nate sadly watches Caitlyn wave and get into her car.
Every Other Weekend
Very few exceptions
I pick up the love we made in both my arms
Nate hugs his children after they both get out of the car. Every other weekend is his favorite time. He gets to see his children.
It's movies on the sofa
"Who wants to watch a movie?" Nate says as he backs out of the parking space.
He hears his children squeal excitedly and start naming off movies.
Grilled cheese and cut the crust off
"Daddy," Nate hears his daughter Kelly say, "could we have grilled cheese for dinner?"
Nate smiles and says, "Of course, Kell-Bell. No crust?"
Kelly nods happily and watches her father start to make their grilled cheese. His son, Sam, interrupts him when he's cutting them into triangles. He says:
"But that's not the way mom makes it daddy"
Nate sighs and smiles at his son.
Breaks my heart
Nate hands them their sandwiches and watches them run off towards the living room. His heart is still breaking from the look in Sam's eyes when he told him he wasn't making the grilled cheese the right way.
I miss everything I use to have with her again
Every Other Weekend
He misses the way she could make him laugh at anything, no matter where they were. He watches his children say the blessing and then they say, "Amen."
But I can't tell her I love her
He shakes his head at the thought of actually telling her how he still feels about her. I love her he thinks to himself as he watches his children giggle at the movie.
I can't tell him I love him
Caitlyn sighs as she watches them pull out of the parking space.
"I love him." She whispers to herself.
She sighs once more and backs out of the parking space.
Cause there's too many questions and
Ears in the car
So I don't tell him I miss him
Her children are usually listening when she says something. The quiet gets to her and she keeps missing him. She turns on the radio to try and escape her feelings towards her ex-husband.
I don't tell her I need her
He kicks himself every time he sees her every other weekend. He doesn't tell her he needs her.
She's (He's) over me, that's where we are
Both grown adults are both thinking the same thoughts, unknown to them.
So we're as close as we might ever be again
Every Other Weekend
Every Other Saturday
First thing in the mornin'
I turn the TV on to make the quiet go away
Caitlyn flops down on the sofa and turns on the television. One thing she hates about every other weekend is the quiet when her children are gone. She shakes her head and tries to concentrate on the movie playing on the television screen.
I know why, but I don't know why
We ever let this happen
Fallin' for forever was a big mistake
There's so much not to do, and all day not to do it in
Every Other Weekend
She doesn't like thinking about what happened between them. She doesn't know why they fell for forever, but it was a mistake. Her tears silently roll down her cheeks as she tries to think of something to take her mind off of him, even for a minute.. a second even. Anything to make the pain and loneliness go away.
Every Other Sunday
I empty out my backseat
Nate closes the door to the backseat as his children run towards their mother.
While my children hug their mother in the parking lot
We don't touch
We don't talk much
Kelly and Sam hug their mother with huge smiles on their faces. Caitlyn looks up at Nate. Neither says a word nor touches each other.
Maybe goodbye to each other
Then she drives away with every piece of heart I've got
I reconvince myself we did the right thing
Every Other Weekend
"Bye." Nate says quickly and gets in his car.
He watches her drive away and he tries to convince himself, for the millionth time, that they did the right thing. He drives away in the opposite direction and flips on the radio to make the silence and heartache go away, even for a minute.
So I can't tell her I love her
He never tells her how much he loves her.
I can't tell him I love him
She never says she loves him so much it hurts sometimes. She just drives away just like every other weekend.
Cause there's too many questions and
Ears in the car
Too many questions to be answered. Too many thoughts.
So I don't tell him I miss him
She doesn't tell him she misses him.
I don't tell her I need her
Nate doesn't tell her how much he needs her.
She's (He's) over me, that's where we are
Both are convinced that the other is over them.
So we're as close as we might ever be again
Every Other Weekend
Yeah for fifteen minutes we're a family again
Nate believes that in those fifteen minutes, that they are a family once again. He loves those fifteen minutes.
God I wish that he was still with me again
She unlocks the door to her house and wishes he was still with her.
Every Other Weekend