Until
I met
you.
Chapter
Three:
"Strawberry
smoothie for my friend here, he's had a rough day."
John was at the counter trying to set me up. I wasn't fully
against it. We were all sitting around at this point, around a
pile of sticks in the middle of a circle of rocks in the sand,
waiting for the fire to start. The moon looked so gorgeous
glimmering it's reflection of the low tide of the ocean.
"I'll bring it over when I'm done here okay?"
My palms started to get warm, and sweaty. My leg starting
shaking. "John I don't know about this." He sat
next to me, putting his arm around me. "You'll be
fine, you got game bro." I laughed. "Game? What is
this? Middle school?" He nodded. "It might as well
be, you're the new kid, and you're sitting at the cool
table, it's a new start." I shook my head at his
nonsense. It's not a cool kid table, it's a beach. I
went with it though. I looked down at my hands, fiddling with
my fingers. I hadn't felt this nervous since my first date
ever. "Get ahold of yourself." I said to myself, not
a second after this, a smoothie cup was in my face.
"Talking to yourself eh? Are you some sort of crazy maniac
on the loose?" I smiled, looking over at her smooth face,
gorgeous green eyes, and light brown hair, with green tips.
Wow.
"Well, are you a maniac?" I
shook my head. No, but you could make me go crazy any day I
thought. "Issac." I extended my hand.
"Melanie." We shook hands and I felt a jolt of
excitement through my fingertips. "Melanie, would you like
to take him on a walk?" I looked over at John, smug look
on his face. "I'm not a dog." She stood up,
pointing to the shore line. "I don't mind at
all." I stood up, looking at her body. As we continued, I
looked every inch of her over. She had one side of her lip
pierced with a stud, a nose ring, and her ears had tunnels in
them. She was wearing a Bring me the horizon t shirt, and blue
skinny jeans. She was gorgeous. "So Issac. What brings you
to California?" I waved back at John, who I could hear
laughing at me. "John's getting married, and I decided
I wanted to live out here." Things were quiet for a
moment, before we stopped, and she pulled me dowen onto the
sand. "Woah Uhm.." She giggled. "Look at the
stars you pervert." I couldn't help but
smile.
We instantly connected, and our pasts were
pouring out of us like soup. "Wow, I can't believe you
had to walk through the store with a thong on your head."
She rolled around laughing. "It was such a rebel
moment." I looked at her, sitting up. "So what about
your mom and dad?" I didn't want to ask at first,
because I know how I would feel about talking about it.
"Well, Normal family I guess. Rich parents, not much time
for me when I was growing up. They didn't approve of my
friends, or my clothes, or my music. I started to get fat and
they laughed in my face, telling me I had it coming." My
hand made it to her shoulder. "Oh my god, Melanie. I'm
sorry." I hesitated at her silence for a moment,
"Well if it makes any difference, I think you're
beautiful the way you are, and they are nuts to laugh at
you." I could see a sparkle in her eye, as her face lit
up, and she hugged me. "Thank you so much." She cried
into my shoulder, pulling away, wiping her tear. "So
what's your horrror story of a childhood?" I gulped at
the way she said it. "Horror story".
"Well.." I didn't want to feel like it was a
competition of who's life was worse, so I skipped the
'horror' part. "Well I was adopted into a loving
family, they were nice, they loved me like I was theirs, and I
guess I couldn't have asked for a better child hood."
But I did, every single day I wish my parents were still alive,
no matter how much I loved Nina and her family..I wish I could
had grown with mine. "
Melanie
smiled. "So you had the perfect childhood?" I nodded.
"Mostly." The sky started to turn orange. "Wow
it's beautiful, isn't it?" I looked up and shot
up. "It's seriously been that long?" She nodded.
"I guess time flies." I helped her up, and started to
walk toward the now crimpson glow of the fire pit.
"You want me to take you home?" She nodded,
grabbing her jacket from one of the logs, and putting it on,
and we walked tp her front door, only a block away from where I
was now living.
"I'll see
you around." I started down the drive way, and on the
whole walk home all I could think of was Melanie, which was
starting to weird me out a bit. I never really had a
girlfriend, and I wasn't sure how these things went. I
didn't know how to tell if a girl liked you, how long to
wait to ask a girl out, or anythinng like that. I just hoped It
would lead to that some day. She may have been weird and
unacceptable to most people, but I thought she was gorgeous.
The most beautiful person I had ever seen. I kicked a rock into
the street knowing I would have to explain myself to John and
Grace. I walked up to the door, opening it to see Grace and
John looking at me, holding a plate of waffles. "Welcome
home." I blushed, kicking off my shoes. "Hey guys, I
just went for a walk." They saw right through my lie.
"Dude, don't you think I know what happened?"
John raised his eyebrows. "What happened exactly?"
Grace asked. I scratched the back of my neck. "Well, we
talked, and the sun started to come up, so I walked her
home." John Kissed Grace and looked back at me. "None
of that?" I shook my head. "I was a comlete
gentleman." Grace patted me on the head. "Good
boy." We all laughed.
I hadn't seen Melanie for a week after
that night, but I'm getting ahead of myself. We were
sitting on the porch. "Hey there downy boy." I rolled
my eyes as I saw Bev walking up to me. "Hi." She put
a fake frown on her face. "Not happy to see me?" I
shrugged. "I'm tired." She sat on the chair next
to mine and touched my leg. "So I heard you were with
Jelly Mellie." I raised an eyebrow. "Who?" She
giggled, "Melanie, the fat smoothie girl." I stood
up, pushing the chair in at the table. "Don't call her
that." She laughed. "Why not? It's true." I
rolled my eyes again. "You ever think that being nice to
people will make you a better person? Like all I ever hear you
do is complain and gossip ana insult people." She studied
her fingernails. "Nice doesn't pay the rent." I
scoffed. "Neither does being a bit**." She smiled,
"Well I have a place to live, don't I?" I smiled
back deviously. "Daddy pays your bills Bev. It doesn't
count." I walked away feeling much better. At this point I
hadn't seen Melanie in three days. I had walked down to the
Smoothie Shack a few times, noone had seen
her.
"John... What is wrong with me?" He gently held his
hand on my shoulder. "I don't know dude, I'd say
love but you barely know the girl." I sighed, getting up
and going into my now decorated room. I had bought myself a
plain light gray bedspread. My pillows were those big soft
fluffy ones, slept like a damn baby. My window had a gorgeous
view of the beach, and also had a day bed infront of it. There
was a desk, where I kept my writing, drawings, and books at.
There was a walk in closet with a mirror on the side of it.
There was also quite a bit of space to move around. I could
hear John yelling to me, but I pretended to be asleep.
"Dude you got a visitor." I shot up, instantly trying
to act as if that did not just happen. "Oh, uhm. You wont
believe the nightmare I just had." He looked at me
unamusement on his face. "Pretend all you want. Just come
downstairs." I nervously messed my hair, looking in the
mirror.
I casually, extremely casually might I add,
fall down the stairs. "Sh*t" I mutter under my breath
as I feel blood running down my toes. "Smooth." I
look up and blush, seeing Melanie looking down on me. "Oh,
you're bleeding.. " I stood up, not letting my bloody
foot touch Grace's floor. "It's fine." She
hurried next to me, insisting I lean on her until we get to the
first aide kit in the bathroom. "You need to sit on the
toilet." I sat down, lifting my foot up and proping it up
onto the sink. "I watched her as she rummaged through the
first aide kit, getting frustrated at how small of the bandaids
were. I very much wanted to ask her where she was, but if she
had made sure that noone had known where she was, she wanted to
keep it that way. "Ah! Perfect!" I smiled as she
cleaned my foot with warm soapy water, putting on the bandaid
and returning the smile I had given her. "Issac, I'm
sorry I haven't been around the past few days." My
eyes popped open in shock, could she read my mind? "I had
a few....minorities." I stood up, looking down into her
eyes and then her looking away blushing. "I was just
worried about you, kinda thought my sexyness scared you
off." Her face got redder. "You're so
cocky." I winked at her. What was coming over me? This
girl was bringint the confidence out in me more and more each
day, and from that day on, we were together every moment. And I
liked the way she made me feel.
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