Disclaimer: Don't own 'em, don't sue my ass!
Distribution: Flights.
Rating: G
Summary: Two lonely people make a whole.
Carm looked out the window and watched as Jeff got into the whore's car and drove away, away from their past, away from what should have been their glorious future, away from what should have made them both happy.
Carm was so hurt she didn't want to feel anymore. If she felt, she hurt so if she didn't feel, she wouldn't hurt, right? Right?
Andrew watched her from his house across the street. Why had be moved so close to them, he asked himself for the nth time? Because you love her. You've loved her since you first came into the WWF and she made you laugh with a joke about her father's views on women in wrestling. But she loves another, his inner voice reasoned.
Another who just walked away from the most wonderful woman in the world. Another who couldn't take the time to understand and appreciate the beauty of the woman he'd been so lucky to have. Jeff Hardy, Andrew thought, you're a risk taker in the ring and an idiot outside of it.
He watched her as she sat on the window sill, her leg tucked under her, her eyes lost in the foliage of the tree she'd planted with Jeff on the day they'd moved in and he knew what she was thinking, what was on her mind. Andrew understood Carm in a way he knew few people did. When she was hurt, she didn't let it show. Not in an obvious, take-care-of-me-before-I-die way. She was a take-charge kind of woman and when she hurt, she took charge of more things to hide her feelings until she could trust herself to deal with them.
But what she didn't know was that he was there, waiting for her, waiting for her to be able to feel again so he could love her with everything he had.
It had been three months now and every night Andrew and Carm went their own way, each going to the solitude of their empty houses. And every night, he thought about what Carm must be doing. On the nights they had dinner together, he knew she just went to her office and that, more often than not, fell asleep at her desk out of pure exhaustion, physical and mental and emotional. On the nights they didn't, he wondered if she remembered to eat.
But worst of all, what he got from their long talks was that Carm thought this was going to be her life forever, to be alone. She didn't trust herself to love anymore. She didn't trust herself not to cry in front of people. She didn't even trust herself to be strong. She actually was starting to believe that crying herself to sleep was normal, that being
alone was her fate, what the gods had in store for her.
Carm looked out her office window across the street to Andrew's house. Through her open windows, music drifted to her ears and she smiled. This had become part of her daily ritual, listening to music from Andrew's house. But tonight, it made her think. For some reason, she got the feeling that Andrew wasn't perfectly happy with his single status. He'd been dropping hints for the past couple of weeks and tonight, as she sat in her office, it all became clear to her.
She ran over to the window and leaned out of it.
"Andrew!" she bellowed. "Andrew Martin! Lower the damn volume!"
"Carm?" he shouted back at her appearing in his living room window, "are you okay?"
"I'm fine. And maybe getting better. Come over?"
"What's up?"
"Don't ask me questions I can't answer just yet. Just get yourself over here!"
Carm watched him run across the street and ran out of her office until she was standing at the top of the stairs.
"What's going on?" Andrew asked, breathing somewhat heavily.
"Do you ever get lonely?" Carm asked him, slowly making her way down the stairs.
"Huh?"
"Alone in that house night after night. Do you ever get lonely?"
"Yeah," he answered, swallowing as he watched her make her way down the stairs.
"Me too. Andrew, I don't want to be lonely anymore."
"Neither do I Carm. And I don't want to be lonely with you."
Carm gasped, the convoluted meaning of his words hitting home. She said nothing, did nothing except run down the stairs into the arms of the man she knew would not walk from the possible greatness of their love.
Artist: Ricky Martin
Album: Sound Loaded
Title: Nobody Wants To Be Lonely
There you are
In a darkened room
You are all alone
Looking out the window
Your heart is cold and lost the will to love
Like a broken arrow
Here I stand in the shadows
Come to me, come to me
Can't you see that
Chorus
Nobody wants to be lonely
Nobody wants to cry
My body's longing to hold you
So bad it hurts inside
Time is precious and it's slipping away
And I've been waiting for you all of my life
Nobody wants to be lonely, so why
Why don't you let me love you
Can you hear my voice
Do you hear my song
It's a serenade
So your heart can find me
And suddenly you're flying down the stairs
Into my arms baby
Before I start going crazy
Run to me, run to me
'Cause I'm dying
Chorus
I wanna feel you deeply
Just like the air you're breathing
I need you here in my life
Don't walk away, don't walk away, don't walk away, don't walk away
No no no no
Chorus x2