She couldn't believe that right now, she was in a car with Roy, and he was taking her to his place. This was so not the way she wanted to end the night. She didn't want to hurt him, but she didn't want to rekindle anything that used to be. She figured that he might be able to comfort her, but she knew the only person that could comfort her was him...

She was standing at the door, and Roy was hastily trying to get the door unlocked. He looked back at her and smiled, "I'm so happy you're here tonight. I knew you'd come back to me!" He smiled again, adoringly.

She almost laughed,  "Um.. come back to you? Roy, I'm not trying to hurt you, but did you really think that we were going to start back up just because you requested our song, and that you danced with me, 'cause I was to pathetic too tell J-"

"-Im Halpert? Is that what you wanted to say Pam? I cannot believe that you want to go to someone that's got the hottest girl in the office wrapped around his finger. Jim is just a washed up loser, Pam, he's skinny, and he's cocky, and doesn't know what you like." He winked at her when he said this, "Pam, he doesn't like you anymore. Just come to me, I've changed, Jim has changed, and he likes Karen..." Her mouth fell open.

"Excuse me?! How do you even know any of that? Do you even know what happened... with me and Jim?" Her face was trembling, she was so close to tears, "I don't know how to tell you this, Roy, I had no intention of telling you this tonight, but I love him, I love him, and how dare you say those things! God, why am I even here? I'm just going to walk home, good night." She turned around and walked down the steps, and started to walk the sidewalk.

"Hey, wait! Pam, come on! I didn't mean it! Please, babe, I need you!" Roy ran up to her, and held her shoulders.

Pam slapped his face, and she could see the anger flaring in his eyes. Normally Old Beesley would totally be scared of this, and would say sorry, but this was New Beesley. She stood her ground, and besides, she wasn't going to apologize to a man who she had dumped a long time ago. "Never, don't you ever, talk about me or Jim in that way again. He's twice the man you'll ever be! And, don't talk to me at work, you may embarrass me." With that, she turned on her heel and walked away, and finally out of Roy's life.

He couldn't believe that right now, he was in the car with Karen, and he was taking her to his place. This was not the way he wanted to end the night. He knew she was pretty drunk, and he figured that Karen would be all over him, but he would decline with a "headache". This is how he had always responded to Karen, just so he wouldn't think about her...

"Hey Jim," she giggled quietly, "Did you notice how Pam didn't even have anyone to dance with? She couldn't even get Dwight to dance with her! Pfft..." Jim's knuckles whitened as he squeezed the steering wheel.

"Karen how many drinks did you have tonight, that your saying all this stuff about Pam?"

"Jim I only had one, and that was a martini, what's up with you tonight? You're so tense. Is it because this wedding was exactly like Pam's. Oh wait she didn't even have a wedding because you told her that you had a crush on her. Right?" She asked this as though it was the easiest question to answer. He also guessed that she was not as drunk as he thought...

Jim stopped the car suddenly, at a small diner, "Karen, I don't just have a crush on Pam, and we didn't only kiss at Dundies when she was drunk..." Jim took a second to look at Karen and her reaction, she was looking out the window, but from what he could see, he could tell that her eyes were brimming with tears, and he lips were sucked into her mouth, so that he wouldn't hear her sobs. He hated to see her like this, but he couldn't keep lying to her about Pam.

"At Casino Night, last year in May, I told Pam that I was in love with her, that it wasn't just a crush, she told me that she couldn't." He remembered that night so well that it always had haunted him. I can't... I'm really sorry if you misinterpreted things... He shook his head to get the memory out.

"And...?" Karen whispered, "what about the kiss?"

"Well, I walked away from her, and when I went upstairs, to kind of look back at Scranton one last time, she was up there, I could hear the cry in her voice. She was on the phone with her mom. I walked up to her and just kissed her, she was the first one to pull back, but God that kiss meant everything to me. She told me she was still marrying Roy, so I walked away from her, and left. And that's when I found you. And Karen I think you're so amazing, and you make me laugh, it's just not the same as Pam. Well that sounded awful." He half laughed.

She giggled to and sniffed, "Jim, please, I've been dumped before, I'll just call a cab." With that, she got out of the car, and closed the door. Jim sighed with relief, and started to drive back to his place.

Jim drummed his fingers on his steering wheel to the beginning of the Snow Patrol song, "You Could Be Happy." He knew he should be more upset about what happened with Karen, but he felt a huge relief lifted off his shoulders.

Is it too late to remind you, how we were?

The lyrics always reminded him of Pam.

I should've stopped you from walking out the door.

When he was humming to the music, he noticed someone on a sidewalk walking with their head down. He looked at them sadly, he saw a satiny gown that was brown. No way... he thought to himself. He pulled to the side of the road, and rolled down the passenger's window and yelled out, "Pam? Why are you walking home by yourself?"

She looked up, and smiled big. "Jim? Um, yea I got in a fight with Roy, I'm sure you saw us walking out...together. Where's.. Karen?" She stuttered with the name.

"Oh that's..um...over. You want a ride home? How far away is your house? My house is just a block away. You wanna come over?" Please say yes, please say yes, we need to talk about what happened...

"Oh sure, my house is about 3 miles away anyway," she laughed at how dumb that sounded. She jumped inside Jim's Corolla. And they were on their way.