Title: Love should.
Continuity: 'The Return.' (Season Three's 13th episode.)
Song: 'Funny how love is', by Queen. (Fragment.)
Feedback: Of course, reviews are highly appreciated.
Warning/Comments: Karen's POV. Slightly A/U. Finally, Karen has a saying in this multi-shot. It was about time, haha. I just didn't feel like writing this chapter from Jim's point of view, because I thought that would be like ignoring Karen's feelings and just forgetting completely about her. As much as I might want her out of the way of Jim and Pam's way, she deserved a space here.
"Hey."He greeted her softly.
She quickly sat next to him and took a deep breath. The time had come to end with some of the lies. "Do you still have feelings for her?"
He paused for a moment that seemed to last an eternity and sighed. "Yes."
She stood up from her seat and walked away before he could add anything else and break her heart a little more.
Funny how love can break your heart so suddenly.
Funny how love came tumbling down with Adam and Eve.
Funny how love is.
Love should make a person feel safe, confident, happy.
Love should give people reasons to get up in the mornings.
Love should do people good.
Love should be the realization of people's dreams.
Love should give people hope.
Love should make people feel empowered, "bright and shiny."
Love should give people wings.
Love should heal people's wounds.
But, funny how love is, it does exactly the opposite.
Love makes you feel insecure.
Love destroys your confidence.
Love makes you unhappy.
Love ends with the reasons to get up in the mornings.
Love does people wrong.
Love is the reason why many people's dreams get shattered.
Love makes you feel hopeless.
Love makes people feel powerless, dark, and twisted.
Love can be like a huge anchor, forcing you to sink into an ocean of depression.
Love hurts people, leaving them broken.
Or at least there's one kind of love that causes all of that. The most feared of all: unrequited love. It is well-known that unrequited love is one of the worst feelings someone can experience: loving someone to death, madly, and knowing that he/she doesn't, and probably will never love you back.
Unrequited love makes you desperate and complicates everything. And by everything, I mean absolutely everything.
With unrequited love, people feel like dying because they can't get the much needed affection from the person they're in love with.
Because of unrequited love, people get obsessed with the object of their desire and they wonder, over and over and over again, what have they done wrong, what can they do to make that person love them, what is it that everybody else has and they don't, and other toxic, stressing thoughts like that.
People who are victims of unrequited love find it hard just to live, because it is so painful without the person they love. In fact, unrequited love victims don't live: they barely exist.
Unrequited love takes all possible way of control away from people's hands, so quite often Hell just breaks loose.
Unrequited love means pain, tears, bitterness and emotional instability.
All of that seems so familiar to me.
I hate to admit it, but it's true: I am trapped in a relationship that's based in unrequited love.
How did I get myself into this? I do not know by now.
But I am trapped in a relationship that's based in unrequited love.
I am in love with a man who doesn't love me back.
I am in love with a man who's never going to love me back, not the way he loves her.
It is sick, and lame, and messy, and awfully painful.
I am in love with someone who settles for me.
That's the truth.
And yet no matter how many times I repeat to myself that I have to end this, I can't manage to do it.
The thing is, unrequited love doesn't follow the 'What easy comes, easy goes' rule. You can fall in the blink of an eye, and it can take you years to get over someone.
Even if that someone doesn't love you back.
Especially if that someone doesn't love you back.
And that's my situation.
Funny how love is.
Funny how it's breaking me to pieces when it should be making me happy.