"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."- Dolly Parton
Melody🤍
'Awe crap,' Mel thought. What did she do this time? She turned her head in the direction of the table, only to see Hazel giving her a look that could only be translated as "you're fucked". She then raised her phone and motioned towards it as a signal for Mel to check hers.
As Mel looked at her phone, a message came in
Haze:
He made me tell him what happened with Valerie and Jake
The stuff you didn't tell him
Sorry!!
Melody felt her heart drop yet again. Amongst her thinking, Luca had pulled her into a staff bathroom.
"Look-" she started before getting cut off. "No, Melody, what the fuck?" he barely even called her "Mel," much less her full name. She knew she was in trouble.
"Why, why didn't you tell?" she noticed that he stopped himself from ranting in Italian, which he did a lot when he was mad.
"I didn't want you to get upset and do something. Plus, I had it under control."
"Do something like what? I'm not mental. I won't fucking kill him!" he said, barely holding his voice together. "And had it under control? By letting him walk all over you??"
"No, Luca! I was going to talk to them today. Not everything has to end in a fight," she hissed.
"Fuck," he gritted, leaving the bathroom
"Where are you going?"
"You're going to talk to them now. That was the plan, to begin with, right?"
"Fine."
"Fine."
Melody tried to keep her composure as she entered the cafeteria. She went over to Jack's table and tapped him on the shoulder. His whole table of football bros or whatever turned around in confusion.
"Hey, uh, Jack, right? Can I talk to you real quick... outside."
"Love confession?" one of his tablemates laughed. Mel was so annoyed by her argument with Luca that she spoke without thinking.
"Mind your fucking business," she glared, making the guy hold his hands up in a surrendering position.
"Okay, damn." Jack said, "Let's go, I guess."
She led him past Luca, feeling his eyes but the back of her head. She stopped a couple of feet away from him.
"Look, about Saturday-"
"Yea, what the fuck was that? All I did was-"
"Do not interrupt me. I apologize for pouring punch on you, and I know I shouldn't have done that. However, I do not appreciate your borderline harassing me." Melody concluded sternly and not apologetically.
"What?" his face scrunched up in confusion "That wasn't harassment." Melody could feel the heat radiating off Luca, but she refused to look his way.
"You grabbed me and tried to make me go upstairs with you. What do you call that? Melody crossed her arms, her voice getting louder.
"I don't know, trying to fuck?" he shrugged.
Mel knew what was going to happen before it did. Luca came from her post around the corner.
"Are you serious dude? Apologize," he demanded
"What." Jake raised an eyebrow
"I said, apologize."
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Trapped
RomanceLuca Apollo Romano is a 17-year-old pessimistic asshole and student at Crestview High. He doesn't believe in happiness or hope, well not since his parents died and he went under the custody of his abusive uncle. He just can't seem to escape this loo...
