Fanfic Name / Nombre del Fanfic: One Song for Two Hearts
Chapter / Capitulo: chapter 2
Author / Autor: Clo
Rating / Clasificacion: AP15 (For Teenagers = Para Adolescentes)
Fanfic: CHAPTER TWO – Like a Friend (Pulp)
LISA
“Let’s see what’s the fuss about track 15, why it remains so much to Claudia my situation with Rick” – thinks Lisa while she looks for it, suddenly the voice of Pulp’s singer starts with “Like a Friend”
Don't bother saying you're sorry
Why don't you come in
Smoke all my cigarettes again
Every time I get no further
How long has it been?
Come on in now, wipe your feet on my dreams
You take up my time
Like some cheap magazine
When I could have been learning something
Oh well, you know what I mean, oh
I've done this before
And I will do it again
She lets her bathrobe to fall and starts pour some cream on her legs and gently massage her legs while listening carefully the lyrics…
Come on and kill me baby
While you smile like a friend
Oh and I'll come running
Just to do it again
“come one and kill me baby, while you smile like a friend, I’ll come running just to do it again, Goddess this song is about Rick and I, Claudia should be a psychologist or something like that…” – she sits on the bed wearing only her underwear and a towel around her head, suddenly the song changes from a ballad into a powerful rock, with guitars and a drum marking the rhythm – “well some change”
You are the last drink I never should have drunk
You are the body hidden in the trunk
You are the habit I can't seem to kick…
Her analysis is interrupted by the telephone insistently ringing, for a few seconds she doubts about answering, she already knows who is calling her.
You are my secrets on the front page every week
You are the car I never should have bought
You are the train I never should have caught
You are the cut that makes me hide my face
You are the party that makes me feel my age
At the end decides to pause the song to answer it…
– Lisa Hayes
– Hello Commandant, you forgot to say goodbye in the morning
– Rick, I’m sorry but you know…
– Don’t bother, I’m starting to get used to it.
– Then don’t complain Lieutenant
– I’m not complaining, in fact I rather you to say hello and good night, than goodbye and good morning, by the way what are you planning to do with your afternoon
– Nothing, – “why can you lie him and say that you have to wash your hair” – why are you asking
– What do you think if we go to have lunch with the Stearling and Claudia, maybe to go to see a film – Lisa silence makes him to complement – there is a cycle of classic pictures, we can see what’s on today
– Sounds wonderful, you contact the Stearling and I’ll talk with Claudia
– Is a plan, at what hour would like me to pick you up
– We can meet at the Gallery, there is no need for you to deviate only to pick me up
– Lisa, for once in your life behave as a girl and let me pick you up, as it was a…
– A Date? – “don’t hold your breath Lisa”
– Yes, a date Hayes, friends also have dates – “I told you”
– Alright, how 1400 sounds
– Two will be, see you later Lis
– Ok Rick, see you later
She hears the sound of the cut line by him and just remains holding the telephone as trying to explain herself what just happened… - “a date, I would give my life for a date with you without the stupid label of friends” – she pushes play and the song continues while she finishes to get dress
Like a car crash I can see but I just can't avoid
Like a plane I've been told I never should board
Like a film that's so bad but I've got to stay till the end
Let me tell you now: it's lucky for you that we're friends.
Like a car crash I can see but I just can't avoid
Like a plane I've been told I never should board
Like a film that's so bad but I've got to stay till the end
Let me tell you now: it's lucky for you that we're friends.
“Yeah Rick, let me tell you you’re dam lucky that we’re friends, I think I’ll better call Claudia… with her and the Stearling I’ll be stronger and won’t let him to convince me again” – she press the speed dial of the person that is not only her best friend, but her conscious, her own personnel Jiminy Cricket, the phone rings a few times and she hears the incredible happy voice of a woman who has suffered a lot in the last few years.
– I was getting anxious for your morning call, how was last night
– What are you talking about, last night I was – “why do I lie to her, she knows me better than anyone”, and it was
– Making love with Rick all night long
– I don’t think that technically what he does with me can be called “making love”
– At what time do you run away from his house
– Almost at night
– I don’t understand why you don’t stay with him and behave as what you already are
– Lovers, fuck buddies, I don’t know in which category we fall
– A couple
– Claudia, you know better than anyone we are not
– What do you say if I come over and discuss it with a cup of coffee and some muffins, I promise to get some if you have the coffee ready.
– Sounds perfect, by the way what are you going to do in the afternoon
– Probably fantasying with Roy
– Earlier
– I don’t need the shadows of the night to “fantasies” with Roy – Claudia answers with a naughty voice
– ¡¡¡Claudia!!! – answers Lisa in a fake surprise tone of voice
– Come’n you surely do the same once in a while thinking bout Rick
– Well I… yes but, I don’t go around publishing it
– Me either, I’m just telling you my friend, well why do you ask
– Rick wants to go out
– And you are taking me with you?
– No silly, wants to go out with friends… you know the Stearling, you, he and me
– Sounds awesome, I’ll bring my treats to get pretty in your house, and talk some more about your “situation”
– See you then… by the way I loved the song
– I knew you would
RICK
Rick hangs the auricular thinking, his mind goes over and over the same topic without imaging that Lisa shares a few of his ideas and dreams
“One day I’ll make Lisa to explain why she is so afraid and of what…” – sees the Minmei’s poster in the wall – “in the other hand… I would have to explain her about my own fears”.
He goes to the kitchen to prepare a cup of coffee, it is an exact replica in color blue of Lisa’s, opens the mugs cabinet and takes one, his favorite a present from Lisa, It is a mug with a funny Snoopy dressed as Red Baron over his doghouse, he didn’t turn his CD player off so the music continue playing… very low he sings the one is playing and suddenly stops as if the words finally mean something, something rather strange because that particularly song accompanies him for a while now, courtesy of his good friend Max Stearling, so he decides to replay it…
You are the last drink I never should have drunk
You are the body hidden in the trunk
You are the habit I can't seem to kick…
You are my secrets on the front page every week
You are the car I never should have bought
You are the train I never should have caught
You are the cut that makes me hide my face
You are the party that makes me feel my age
– The last drink, the body, the dammed habit, always sneaking to avoid the paparazzi, hiding the fact we are together, you make me feel like that Minmei, every time I’m with you I feel I making a huge mistake
Like a car crash I can see but I just can't avoid
Like a plane I've been told I never should board
Like a film that's so bad but I've got to stay till the end
Let me tell you now: it's lucky for you that we're friends.
– But I cannot to help myself, all my friends ask me what the fuck I’m expecting from you… in deed let me tell you that you are too dammed lucky and I’m to dammed fool
“Minmei, I don’t understand why I continue hook with you, you are not good for me, but I don’t have the balls to take a silly poster off the wall because I’m afraid to lose you. If only Lisa give me a sign, I’ll be able to gather the courage, but I don’t know if she feels something else than friendship and lust” – takes the kitchen phone and dials the number of the man sent by Roy to help him to go on with his life.
– Hello
– Miriya, hi… how are you being
– Fine Lieutenant, are you looking for Max
– Yes, thank you
– ¡¡¡¡¡MAXXXX!!!! – it doesn’t matter how long she has been living among humans and all Max and his friends efforts, Miriya continues without understanding many human things, as not yelling someone in the ear – he’ll answer in a moment
– Thanks Mir
– By the way, how’s Lisa
– Fine – answers a bit confuse and at the same time flatter to be him the one people asks about Lisa well being
– Nice to hear, I haven’t seen her in a while…
– What happened honey
– Is Rick, talk you later
– Thanks Miriya, give a huge kiss to Dana on my behalf
– I will – answers and passes the headphone to her husband
– She left you deft – the Max’s cheerful voice
– Just a bit
– Why I’m having the honor to receive a call from you so early Rick
– Come’n is almost 10 am
– Yeah, that’s what I mean, after the few hours of sleep I suppose you have last night is early
– You suppose – he realizes that he cant not pretend, at least not with him – well, but you know I can complain even if I don’t sleep nothing in all day long, being with her gives me energy for everything.
– How are things with Lisa
– The same
– Continue running as fast as her feet allow her in the morning
– Yeah, and I don’t understand why
– Call me crazy but haven’t you consider to ask her why – as answer he only gets silences and understand Rick refuses to speak about it – I guess is too early for this conversation
– You are right, by the way I called to invite you to have lunch with Lisa, Claudia and me, nothing fancy, you know just friends getting together
– Sounds great
– Maybe afterwards we can see a film
– Just one condition, not the newest Minmei’s, I don’t want to witness your murder by Lisa Hayes
– I don’t think she would mind
– When are you going to understand that the main reason Lisa maintains her distance is that little girl
– Lisa… jealous of Minmei, she well know we are not together
– Perhaps, but she does not know what you feel for her
– Brother, not even I know what I feel for her
– Or Lisa
– Rain check for the psychoanalysis, ok
– Alright – Max answers without understanding how his squad leader could be so brave in battle and so coward in real life – at what time are we meeting
– I’m going to pick Lisa up at 2
LISA
– He is coming here for you?
– Yes, he told me he’s arriving around 2
– What the heck I’m doing here
– Taking breakfast and hearing my problems
– I can’t be here when he arrives
– Why not?
– How can you be so bright for some things and just dumb in your love life
– ¡Claudia!
– I’m sorry girl, but really you don’t have a clue of how to behave in a relationship
– How do you want me to know how to behave, if my latest boyfriend died years ago, besides we don’t have a “relationship” we just sleep around
– I’ll join you in the restaurant
– What’s the need to use two cars
– To have some privacy silly…
– For what???
– Lisa, it’s time to stop pretending
– What I’m pretending
– That you don’t have feelings for him, I told you my story with Roy for a reason, look if you don’t have the guts to tell him at least show it
– What do you think I do in bed
– Men don’t think while having sex, their blood is not in their brains, you have to show it outside the bed
– Decorating his house, cleaning it, doing his bloody laundry, and the list can go on and on
– He sees it as favors from a friend
– Claudia I don’t know what else I can do
– You have to do something and fast, before he tires to wait for a sign
– And why on earth he can make the first move
– Because my dear friend he is a fool
– Goes beyond being a fool, what I have to do… get down in my knees and proclaim my love, take flowers and give him a serenade
– It could be, why don’t you start by stop running from his place as you usually do, or has he make you feel that he is not comfortable with you there
– No at all, he is so tender, he doesn’t stop hugging me while we sleep
– See that’s something, most men count the seconds for you to stand up and leave
– That’s nothing, there is no secret there
– That means a lot Lisa, by the way don’t return his boxers
– Why not…
– He is not giving you your panties
– What makes you believe he has them
– He is Roy’s clone, that why
– Well if he do have them, is going to use them to clean his furniture
– I don’t think so, he is going to use them for something more entertainment
– ¡Claudia! For God’s sake, what’s going on with you this morning
– Come on Lisa, of course he misses you once in a while and well, you know men when miss someone…
– Seriously Claudia, what did you dream last night
– What do you think
– You’re awful, if Rick in deed does that kind of rituals, which I don’t doubt at all, I don’t think I’m the one on his mind
– That’s what you think because you haven’t realize, or don’t want to, the smock face he puts every time he sees you.
– That’s his normal face
– Well you bring that idiotic look a little bit more
RICK
A jeep is traveling in New Macross streets, Rick caught in this thoughts drives it, he is heading to Lisa’s place, the same tribulations she had earlier that day, in his head Max words repeat over and over again.
– As always you are right Maximilian, first of all I have to define my feelings for them – says out load while complementing in his mind “I believe I’ll better play some music I don’t want to think about it, I want to enjoy the afternoon with my pals”
He turns the radio on and listens the disc jockey without really listening – “if only Lisa gives me a sign, I would dare to give up with Minmei”
– Following a part of my exclusive interview with super star Minmei and her manager Kyle regarding her new Christmas album…
– ¡NOT NOW! – yells while turns the radio off, only to realize that next to him is a jeep with a family also waiting for the change of light in the intersection, coincidence of life is the same family that witness Lisa’s rage episode in the morning – good afternoon
– Good afternoon Rick, is everything OK
– Yeah, only thinking out load – change of light – see you tomorrow at work Oka
– See you Commander
“I think I have to definitely stop thinking about I or I’ll end up crazier than I already am”
Finally reaches is destination, parks the jeep, and while walks toward her door, that funny feeling he feels in his chest every time he sees her starts, how his palms sweat and his hearts beats harder and harder as it wants to get out of his chest. Lisa waits for him seating in her couch with the same feeling, he knocks the door and doesn’t have to wait long for the door to open… there in front of him is Lisa Hayes and all doubts he might have disappear, at least for now.
She looks stunning; he can not stop admiring how well her legs look in those pants she is wearing, her green blouse with a low cut a little bit lower for Lisa usual wardrobe, her hairdo is a simple ponytail but it looks great on her, the final touch of her outfit was a pair of gold with jade earrings, but all he can do is trying to figure out how is the panty and bra coordinate she is wearing underneath all. She also realizes that he puts a little of effort in his clothes, his jeans (betting to herself is he is or not wearing underwear) and his black Mao neck shirt (which she gave him in his last birthday), his hair as always with that “I just get out of bed” look, which was totally forgot and forget for his smile, a smile that could disarmer her any time.
– Ready
– Totally
– You look great by the way
– Thanks, you are not bad either
– Stearling are going to meet us at the restaurant
– As well as Claudia, do you know if Max and Miriya are taking the baby
– I guess so – and he cannot avoid to imagine how beautiful Lisa looks with a baby on her arms, and would she look holding Rick and Lisa’s baby
– I hope so, I really want to see little Dana, there been a while since the last time I spoiled her
– I’m sure she misses too, would you like to hear some music
– Yeah, why not – “as long you don’t play Minmei” thinks while answering
He turns the radio on, immediately, as he would read Lisa’s thoughts, switches to the CD player to avoid ruining the day listening Minmei’s voice, the song is the one both listened and analyzed in the morning
– You won’t believe but just this morning I heard this song for the very first time
– Max loves it, that’s how I heard it – “and it’s how the mocking bird, as you called her, makes me feel”
– Well I just adore it… that change in the middle is amazing, from a slow ballad into a power ballad – “if you only know that its reflects the guilt I have every time I sleep with you”
Both smile and let the song get them, they follow the lyrics dedicating it to that person to who there are hooked up as drug, the one they seem unable to let go.
Like a car crash I can see but I just can't avoid
Like a plane I've been told I never should board
Like a film that's so bad but I've got to stay till the end
Let me tell you now: it's lucky for you that we're friends.
There’s just one tiny difference at the end… she is not lucky that they’re just friends.
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