Such a complicated, twisted love story.

I liked this one, even listened to the song. The dancing theme was very well done. Thank you!

So I'm in love with you.

I love this song so much. Bye A Fine Frenzy right? The whole time I was reading the story I was singing the song haha. Seriously this song is so hauntingly beautiful, and I love your story.

I actually really do love the way you've interpreted the song, and sort of mixed it around a little. Really it's beautiful, and inspiring, and the way you've made the whole story like a "dance", I love that :)

All in all I just love the piece. Great work!

:)

That was so sweet, in a sad way. Personally, I loved it.

I cried so hard.
I seriously haven't cried like that in a while, but I think I'm feeling a little hormonal and tired - and this story just struck such a chord with me, what with love just not being enough in the end, and the way your broken relationships change you, and things being what you need and yet not, and just... *sob*!

I know it's silly to thank someone for writing a story they were going to write anyway, and which they wanted to write for themselves (much less a story which was written pretty much a year ago), but thank you for writing this - it was cathartic in a way, and mightily depressing in another, but reading it was ... I'm struggling to think of the right word.. it was enjoyable and entertaining, but I'd have to attach deeper, less light-hearted meanings of the words to that description. It was touching, but without the sense of "aw" and relating-to-the-unknown that I would normally associate with the word (I'm not entirely sure that makes sense)..

Either way, it was wonderful.

I loved the way you managed to point out the things Kelly didn't like about Cameron (like his teeth).. even though writing about those things were pretty much an obvious thing for the story, it made it seem so much more realistic, because after all, no one's perfect!

I also loved the way you wrote the story - using "I" and "you" and "me" to really convey the personal thoughts of the story... That style put me off slightly when I started reading the beginning of the story, but it was easy enough to get used to, and created a wonderful atmosphere very, very quickly.

I also liked the bit in which you added her thoughts in brackets:
"You said that you couldn’t play my game anymore (what game? This was a dance), and that you wanted out of this, out of your and my relationship (what happened to “our” relationship?)."
Her internal protests to his excuses were the perfect touch, and (since I'm personally assuming she didn't voice these thoughts - sorry if I've interpreted it incorrectly!) made the whole scenario even sadder.

Anyway, I've spent a while now trying to word this review - I'm gonna head off, and I hope you've been enjoying life as much as possible. Well done on this amazing piece of work - take care!

This is A-MA-ZING! I have so much to say that this review might turn into a story itself.
I know the song and love the song. The story created a mini movie in my head and I could picture every emotion with the dancing (perfect analogies by the way) and that beautiful song playing in the background.
It's a really realistic relationship, it's like you added another dimension to the typical love stories on here. People usually end their stories when the couples became 'official' said the L word. This was so much more!
Although I love it, I couldn't understand/relate to some of the concepts in here (but that's just me).

mythee

This was beautiful! I can't believe I just discovered this now, but this was really beautifully written! It was so heart wrenching to read because it's so easy to relate to!

wow...just wow, that was completely amazing. you've rendered me speechless here, i'd never heard the song but i turned it on while reading and it was perfect and the entire story was just plain perfect. its a real bittersweet one, it was heartbreaking and wonderful and almost made me cry because i know exactly that point of view. anyways, loved it :)

wow. this is a really good story. i dont often read stories that are this good. but this sent shivers down my spine, it's that good. i found it on the SKoW website and it is by far the best i've read :)

xx

aussie-crazy-banana

i guess it's better to have loved once than to never have loved at all.

I'll be truthful to you and tell you that it was not interesting. Inteeresting is too boring a word to describe this story. This is a piece of someone's soul in wiiten form; not a useless rant of the main character, but a story and feelings you can feel. I don't really mind if you don't get my review, because my mind works on a wierd level and I think some of my own words don't make sense to me. So put in simple English, I'm trying to tell you that you wrote a wonderful piece (well, what should I call it?) that is not to be ignored.

So I was just prancing around on SKOW and saw your fic and thought:
"Oh I know this song! Might as well read it!"
And when I finished?
Woah...this is one awesome story!
Sad bitter end but that's life right?
Kudos to you!

Beautiful. Loved the song and this story to pieces; I listened to the song while I read this, and it did make for a good angsty cry. It wasn't insanely long and eye-killing, nor was it super short, leaving the readers hanging. Perfect :D

Keep writing :)

- Raine.

This was just magnificent.
Seriously, it was truly amazing, beautiful and captivating.
Your writing just flowed and kept me wanting more.
It was a great story, and also made me tear up, it was quite heartbreaking.
But honestly, this was incredibly and I definitely loved it!

First of all, love the song - absolutely gorgeous. I think this was a great take on it, and on the idea of an "almost lover". You've really captured how complicated and insane relationships can be, and how you can completely and totally love a person one moment and want to murder them in their sleep the next. The lines from the song fit into the story well, and the general theme of the dance you had going also worked splendidly. And like the song, very beautifully written, but without losing any of the narrator's personality. I should think you have a pretty good chance of winning this skow round with this one. Rock on. ;]