Popular Culture Review Vol. 14, No. 2, Summer 2003 | Page 93

Themes in A W e d d in g S to ry 89 In the case of Catherine and Jason, both suppressed romantic feelings for quite some time before getting to the “point” where love could not be denied: Jason: And during this whole time, this year and a half friendship, um, I had been, I’d have these resurgences of feelings for her that I would just push down, you know? And it’d rise up and I’d push them down. ‘No, she’s just a friend.’ ‘Yeah, but you really like her.’ ‘No, no, she’s just a friend.’ C atherine: Jason and I were just friends, so we were constantly just look ing at each other as very good friends, almost best friends, you know, and so - from that point on, trying to keep it down, um, it started to rise and build, and get to a point where it was just overflowing, and that was when the phone call came. Jason: I sai