Because Cat & Jereme wanted me to write it.

Oct 22, 2005 02:59



It all started about two months ago. I had already become good friends with Cat and we hung out a lot. The summer had been good for our growing friendship. We would hang out almost every day and just sort of appear in each others apartments. It was good.

Now, Cat had this friend whom she had been pen pals with when they were silly little children. One day while Cat is at the bus stop, who should appear but this friend from her past. They talk and catch up and think that this is pretty cool to run into each other after all these years. Cat, of course, comes home and tells me all about it and about how they became pen pals a long time ago. I thought it was pretty neat.

A few days later, I'm heading to the mall when I run into this girl. We start talking and lo and behold it is Shawna, the girl from the bus stop. We talk for a bit and I offer her a ride to the mall where she worked at the time. Again, later that day I came home to tell Cat about how I had run into her pen pal friend.

We decide that it would be fun for us all to hang out together as Shawna has just moved into our complex with her boyfriend and they don't really know any one yet. So one night in the not to far future, we all get together: Cat, Shawna, Me, Quinn (my fiance) and Jereme (Shawna's boyfriend). I immediately detect something isn't quite right with Shawna and Jereme's relationship, but I keep my mouth shut, after all I've just met them. We have a fun evening and agree that we should all hang out together more in the future.

A few weeks pass. Over these few weeks I get to know both Shawna and Jereme, both as a couple and separately. I notice that Jereme is a very different person when he is around Shawna. I also notice how comfortable and flirty he is around Cat. I can't help but think to myself that Cat and Jereme would make a cute couple, from even the first day I realized I had thought that. I play over what I've seen in my head for a few more days, now that I've figured out what I think and I talk to Cat.

Now, Cat and I talk about everything. I bring up to her that I think Jereme and Shawna's relationship is struggling and that the don't seem 'right' together. I also let slip my thoughts on her and Jereme being a very compatible couple. She takes a bit to absorb what I've said and I ask her if she thinks I should say something. She shrugged, not sure since at the time I didn't really know either Jereme or Shawna all that well.

A few more days go by. I come to the decisions that I can talk more comfortably with Jereme than with Shawna, that I think Jereme would be more receptive to the idea of there being problems in their relationship and finally that Jereme is the one loosing out the most in his current relationship. I decide to talk with him.

After spending and evening over with Cat, Jereme and Shawna, Shawna heads home to do her homework, Cat goes to bed and I ask Jereme to hang out a bit longer. It felt a little awkward, since, as I said I didn't know him that well yet, but he seemed happy to spend some time getting to know each other and so we come hang out over at my place. Once we're sitting down, I hit him with my observations: He and Shawna are clearly not happy; Their relationship does not appear healthy; and I think he should really think about what he wants from his relationship because he clearly isn't getting it. He confesses that he and Shawna have been having problems for a while and that they have been trying to fix things. He mentions a time frame and I make a face. I've noticed things progressively getting worse over the past few weeks. He says that he's scared of leaving the relationship. He's afraid no one will love him again. He's afraid no one else could handle him being sick. I tell him he's silly and that I can think of a few people I think he would be good with. He catches that. "Like who?" he asks. I turn red. "I don't know if I should say." I respond. He presses. "It's just, I think you and Cat would be great together." I finally confess. He's taken aback. "Cat is only a friend" he tries to convince either me or himself, I'm still not sure who. I shrug. I inform him that I feel a little weird talking to him about all of this because I don't really know him that well, but I felt I needed to say something. Sometimes an outside perspective is needed. He leaves for the evening with much to contemplate.

Over the next few days, Cat and Jereme both confess that they have feelings for the other (though on separate occasions and the other one didn't know I knew the other felt the same back). It's a little weird keeping it to myself, but Shawna was still a friend and I didn't want to do anything. Jereme tells me he's going to break up with Shawna in a week, when her best friend is here for support, I agree that's a good way to do it, with her here having support.

Then Cat shows me an instant message conversation she had with Jereme where he tells her how he feels. It's totally sweet. We talk for a long time and I finally go home. That night I'm talking to both of them and they are talking to each other and sending me IM's about what they are saying to each other as well. At about 1am Jereme suggests Cat and he go for a walk. Cat tells me. I ponder a moment. "Cat," I say, "If you go on that walk you'll kiss him." There's no message for a minute and then. "I know." "Do you want to kiss him?" I ask gently. Another pause. "Yes." "Then go." And they do. Before they go I ask Cat to stop by when she gets home. Over an hour goes by and I'm just about to call Cat's cell phone, concerned that something may have happened to them.

There's a knock at the door. Relieved, I open it to find both Cat and Jereme standing there looking very guilty. I invite them in. I make tea. "You tell her." "No you tell her" I hear being whispered in the living room. "Tell me what?" I ask with a more than suspicious tone. "You were right." Cat finally says. I raise an eyebrow then smirk. "I see." We talk for a bit more. "And what about Shawna?" I ask. They've decided not to say anything. Jereme was already going to break up with her, to save her feelings and a mess of drama if she found out.

A few days later Cat is feeling guilty. She's talking to Shawna on-line and tells her what happened. Needless to say, the proverbial shit hit the fucking fan. Shawna flipped.

Now, I know she had a right to be upset, but she took it very poorly. I sort of felt like the whole thing was right out of some high school soap opera. And I was smack dab in the middle of the muck.

Over the next few days pretty expected stuff happened. Shawna and Jereme officially broke up, he started sleeping on the couch and looking for another place to live, while Shawna flamed him to everyone she possibly could. The situation changed by the hour, Cat and Jereme were texting me at work about what was going on.

Cat and Jereme make it official. Again, Shawna finds out. This time, by breaking into Jereme's LJ and reading Cat's post that said they were officially dating. I roll my eyes at the drama. Cat and Jereme are clearly better for each other than Shawna and Jereme were and things worked out as they did so it was obviously meant to be.

Things were shaky for a bit at the beginning. Both Cat and Jereme felt it was moving too fast, but they were both afraid of loosing each other after having found each other so recently. Things seem a lot better now though. I've never known Cat to be so happy and relaxed. I even think she's sleeping better. While Jereme always seems to have this silly grin on his face.

To quote a song I wrote a long time ago: "Together life is the happiest I will ever be, because I know in all the world you were meant for me. So hold me close forever, never never never let me go. Never let me go."

The End
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