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{Call it bad timing
But I call it destiny
It wouldn't have happened
If it wasn't meant to be
I felt your heart
Like a magnet
Your eyes were touching me
Touching me, touching me
I want your world to turn
Just for me
I want your fire to burn
Just for me
Like the moon affects the tide and the sea
I want your world to turn... just for me...}
Her gaze seemed to be drawn to them like a magnet. She felt paralyzed, as though she'd been hit by a stun gun, as though she felt powerless to look away or move from the spot in which she stood.
Lita's gaze was unblinking and fixed on the two, and her stomach clenched with a sickening sensation. All she could think was why couldn't it be *her*?
At the same time, she was confused by her feelings. She'd never really cared, never given him a second look. Okay, so he was good-looking - extremely so. But their past had been a more than unfriendly one for most of the time they'd known each other.
Her eyes unblinking, she continued watching the two people. It was strange, but her heart felt as though it were breaking. He'd recently returned to the WWE a few short weeks back - and he was already dating someone... Stacy Keibler, on the heels of her breakup from Test several months earlier, was said person in question.
"Lita? Earth to Lita!"
The sound of Trish Stratus' voice, the waving of the blonde's small hand in front of her face, brought the redhead back to reality.
"What?"
The Canadian diva frowned. Her best friend looked so lost, as though she'd been daydreaming or something.
"Didn't you hear a word of what I just said? I need your help!"
The taller diva shook her head.
"I... I'm sorry, Trish. I guess I'm still shaking off the cobwebs from our match."
The two divas had only moments earlier competed in an 'impromptu' contest after the blonde woman had attacked Lita on her way to the ring. Lita had been the expected guest on Y2J Chris Jericho's Highlight Reel, but the spot was not supposed to happen so as to build upon the feud between them.
The redhead shifted her gaze back to Stacy and her new beau. It tore her up inside that the leggy blonde was with him. Why hadn't he ever looked *her* way? They were friends... He was one of her *best* friends, for crissakes! He definitely couldn't call Stacy Keibler someone he'd been friends with. Damn the skinny blonde beanpole and her never-ending legs! But wait... Why the hell were these bitter thoughts pervading her mind? Stacy was one of her friends! It wasn't possible she was feeling resentment to this nature toward a friend... *Was* it?
"I don't know what to do about Christian..." Trish went on, oblivious to the turmoil doing battle inside of Lita.
"Make up with him..." the redhead said absent-mindedly. Her head was completely somewhere else - so much so that she couldn't even care that she wasn't giving her best friend's matter much concern. But she couldn't help it.
"Make up with him? But the fight was all *his* fault!" Trish snaped, a cross between a pout and disappointment on her face. What was wrong with Lita? She certainly wasn't acting like herself. She seemed to be lost, distracted - and that was frustrating. "What is *up* with you, girl?" she asked, her tone demanding. "It's like I can't even talk to you!"
"What? I'm sorry..."
"Oh, fine... I'll just go and talk to Victoria instead. See you later when you've come back down to the planet earth!" With that, Trish pivoted and stormed away down the hallway.
The redhead, barely affected by her blonde best friend's reaction and annoyance, shifted her gaze back to the couple. Her breath caught in her throat as she saw that now, Stacy and the man were kissing. Her heart sank.
Just as she was about to walk away a moment later, something odd happened. The man raised his head from Stacy's, his gaze trailing directly to *her*. He licked his lips, a grin forming on his handsome face as he met her gaze. Slowly, his eyes scanned over her body, and Lita was momentarily dumbstruck.
But she realized, with a startling clarity, one thing at that very instance that their eyes met...
... She was in love with Edge...