A/N: Sorry I haven't updated in so long!! I've been soo busy!! But that's no excuse. I'm gonna try my best to update A LOT MORE. Key word, TRY. )

PS: Don't even try to understand the thing about a square purse. It's a LONG story/ inside joke between my friends and I. So they better appreciate its cameo!! That was the only place I could squeeze it in so, yeah. It sounds pretty stupid, but whatever!!

(this is still part of the last song line.)

"I'm Jenny, Nick's girlfriend. You must be Joe, right?" Joe stiffened his back, completely shocked. It felt to him as if all the oxygen on the Earth had just vanished, and he had no method of surviving.

"Gaa, girl--girlfriend??" Joe cried out, completely and utterly heartbroken.

"Jay-"

"Save it Nick. I'm done begging for your forgiveness. I'm sorry I screwed up. I'm sorry I'm not perfect. But mostly, I'm just sorry I EVER loved you!!"

Slam.

Right now, Nick was thankful his girlfriend was not the sharpest crayon in the box and apparently hadn't got that Joe and he had been so close and intimate. Although Nick knew Joe didn't mean what he said, it still killed him to hear the words come out of his mouth. But Nick knew it was in his best interest to let him go. Forever.

I've got a hole in me now. Yeah, I've got a scar I can talk about.

Joe's eyes stung as he ran out of the building and into the city lights. He didn't care who all saw him letting his emotional side out. He wasn't as "macho, rock and roll, have no emotions" as everyone thought he was. It's about time they saw he had a heart and feelings. But right now, Joe didn't care about any of that. He hailed a cab and sat there thinking the whole ride home.

A girlfriend? How could he? And one that could mistake a book for a "really square purse" D at that. What does she have that I don't? Well, besides the obvious things :) He didn't even officially break-up with me! He just said we were "taking a break." He didn't mention that involved seeing other people!!

Joe thought over all these questions and the many options of answers until he arrived home, climbed into bed, and fell into a restless sleep.

Weeks past, and Joe was doing no better than he was when he first found out Nick left. No, he wasn't partying which was good, but he also wasn't doing the essential things in life (ie: eating, and when he did it was junk food, showering, sleeping, etc). He just sat around his apartment and moped. That and indulged in ice cream, eating it by the gallon. Things proceeded like this for the next two weeks, until Joe got a all from a number he hadn't seen on caller ID for over a month.

He keeps a picture of me, in his apartment in the city.

"Huh-hello?" Joe answered. Silence. "Nicky, are you there?"

"Yeah, I am," Nick said so quietly it was barely audible.

"Oh, okay, umm...what's going on?"

"I miss you, Joe." Joe felt himself smile for the first time in along time. He wasn't sure if it was because he was happy Nick was pained and felt how he'd been feeling, or simply just because Nick missed him.

"How does that brilliant girlfriend of yours feel about that?" Joe said bitterly.

"I don't know. She broke up with me. She got all pissy when she saw I had more pictures of you and I than I did of her. It's alright though. I would've broken it off with her if she hadn't with me first."

Somethings in this world, man they don't make sense.

This made Joe smile again. The fact that Nick had pictures of him made him happy, but knowing that their relationship had ended because of it just made him want to laugh.

"Nick, do you still love me?"

Way to be blunt, Joseph, he thought to himself.

"Jay, of course I do. More than anything."

"Then why'd you leave? Actually, better question. Why don't you come home?" Nick didn't know how to answer that really. He knew why he'd left, but now that Joe had seemed to reform, why not head back to Jersey?

"I don't know, Joe. I just..I need time. Time to find myself, find what I want to do with my life."

"But that doesn't make sense! You could just as easily live here, and go to work everyday. Just like you did when you were younger."

"Somethings don't make sense, Joe. Just trust me, okay? I need to be here right now."

Somethings you don't need until they leave you. Then they're the things that you miss. (You say..)

"And you trust me! I never realized how much I needed you, how much you meant to me until you left. I took advantage of you, never thanked you for anything you did for me. Half the time we were together I was either drunk or hungover, and quite frankly, I don't blame you for leaving. But the other half are moments I wouldn't trade for the world. And now that I realized that you truly mean everything to me, you're gone. I love you, Nicholas. More than anyone or anything, and...I'm sorry."