Life Goes On
By Melody Rasnake
Disclaimer:
Melody Rasnake: I do not own gundam wing, I wish.... (Dreamy look appears on authors face)
Melody's ever present brother, Austin: Hello (snaps finger in front of melody's face this doesn't work so he go gets a cup of water and dumps it on her head)
Mel: what the fuck (snapping back to the real world)
Austin: Get on with the disclaimer
Mel: oh right sorry anyway I also do not own Jason Yuy, Helen Maxwell, Joel Chang, Jasmine Chang, David Winner, Indigo Barton, Brittney Norris, Alexis Robbie, Seth Hamilton, Carol Maxwell, Saber Trong I think that is all of them (thinks smoke starts coming out of ears ) If I missed anyone sorry but they belong to the author of "A Hero's Child" and "Sins of the Past". The others are ether someone I know or someone my brothers and/or friends and I made up. (takes a much needed deep breath) so there no one can sue me, like it would do them any good since I don't have anything they could take other than my class ring and my piece of shit computer So....
Austin, with help from other brothers and Chris (friend) tie Melody to a chare and Duck Tape her mouth shut
Austin: any way now that she has shut up (smiles and winks) Here is the story.
Mel: (sweatdrops)
Chapter One
Sixteen-year-old Melody Winner set with her friends at the lunch table.
"So what was it like traveling with your aunts circus this summer, say Mel?" ask her friend Zach. Who was by far, Melody's best friend.
"It was ok, I guess. I mean Aunt Cathy is cool and all. But she is just as over protective as my parents are." she said "and she wouldn't let me do anything."
"Come on you had to of had a little fun." said her seventeen year old cousin, Kay
"Well there was that one day that Aunt Cathy was sick and Manager let me take over her act." Melody said
"Wow they really let you throw knifes at people." cry 18 year old Matt
"...."
"That is so cool," exclaims Matt's sister Jamie she's 16
"Anyway who going to the concert tomorrow night?" Melody ask trying to change the subject before she had to tell them that she gave Cathy's assistant a hair cut when she throw one of the knifes.
"Um, I think we all are," said Kay "Its like a tradition for god sakes!!"
"She's right. We go every year," Matt said throw a mouth full of food. "Besides there wouldn't even be a concert if it weren't for the fact that it's your birthday."
"What are you going to do about it wimp?!" They heard someone yell from across the room. Melody groaned as she stood up.
"Looks like Peter is back in school I guess his suspension ended yesterday from the last fight he was in." said Jamie as everyone got up and followed Melody over to where the fight was.
"Peter, Peter, Peter are we going to have to go throw this again this month." Melody asks as she stepped between Peter and his latest victim, a young Asian boy she had never seen before. "I was sure you had learn your lesson last month." she smirked.
"Back off and stay out of this, Bitch." Peter yelled as he swung his arm around to hit her across the face, but Melody grabbed his arm and held it very tightly.
"What did you say to me?" she asks calmly as she bent his arm back wards.
"What are you def? I said to back off Bitch." he replied stubbornly
"I don't think you want to call her that again. Remember what she did to you the last time you called her that?" called out Peter's best friend Jack "You were in the hospital for two months."
"Shut up would ya." he yelled back "I'm not scared of a stupid and weak little Bitch." he glared at Melody.
"That was the wrong move." Melody whispered in his ear Then faster than you could say 'shit look out' she punched him in the stomach making him to double over in pain. She then spun around kicking him in the head sending him flying him across the room and in to the wall knocking him out cold.
"Never call me weak or a bitch. It's really not good for your health" she said calmly as she wiped off her hands.
"Hey are you ok?" she asks as she turned to the Asian boy. The next thing Melody knew he had punched her in the face and she was lying on the ground staring up at a very piss looking young man.
"I didn't need your help," he yelled before storming out of the room.
"Stay away from my cousin you ass-hole." screamed an Asian girl who then turned and ran after the boy.
"What the hell was that about?" ask Matt as he and Zach helped a very surprised Melody to her feet.
"Don't minded them those to have a problem with people helping them." a young man with a long brown braid hanging down his back said as he walked up to Melody and her friends. "Hi, I'm Scott Brown and the two you just meet were Tia Chang and her cousin Taylor Hamilton."
"Hi, I'm Melody Winner and this is my cousin Kay Davise and our friends Matt and Jamie Johnson, Jamie's boyfriend, Zach Altizer." Melody said as she introduced everyone. "I take it you know those two."
"Yea, unfortunately. Our parents are close friends."
"Looks like we've found a fellow Goth.," commented Zach as he took in Scott's over sized black jeans and shirt and black biking gloves.
"Would you like to join us for lunch, Scott?" ask Matt as they headed back to their table.
"Sure" he said as he followed them.
"Anyway what time are we going to meet at my house before the concert?" ask Jamie.
"Hey everyone I'm home!!!" Melody called as she opened the front door of the Winner family mansion. "Guess nobody is home, O-well"
Then Melody cot a gleams of herself in the mirror that hangs on the wall just in side the front door. 'Well at lest my face match my cloths' She thought.
Austin: you guys are problem wondering what Melody looks like so I'll tell you. She is about 5'3", 95 lb She has a figure that would put Barbie to shame. She has brown hair that comes down to her but that she keeps in a high pony tail on top of her head with to piece that hang down and shape her face. She has the deepest green eyes you have ever seen. She almost always wears black 1/2 cover-all, bike gloves, and ether a pair of tight black flared jeans and a tight black, low cut, shirt. Or a long floor length black dress and black booths and around her neck she always wears a black ribbon with a silver rose on it.
Mel: mum mu mu (steal has her mouth duck taped)
Melody decides she would get a snack before heading up to her room. She peep her head in to her dad's office as she walked by and was surprised to see him sitting at his disk on the phone. He looked up and waved for her to come in and have a set that he would be with her in a min. Slowly she walked in and took the set across from him in one of the big letter chars. About five minutes went by before he hung up the phone and looked at her.
"Well it looks like Mrs. Styles wasn't lying when she said you got in to a fight today." David Winner said when he got a good look at her black eye. "Would you like to tell me what happened?"
"Well Peter was beating up this new Asian kid. And when I told him to stop he called me a weak little b and then he slapped me. So I made him eat his words." she relayed evenly as she look at one of the pictures on his disk.
"Is this the same Peter you sent to the hospital last year?"
"Yea, One of these days he is going to learn not to call me a b."
"Melody, Sweetheart, you don't have to settle a fight with your fist when are you going to learn that fight in the end hurt only you." he sighed as he got up and walked around to the other side of the disk and lend up against it.
"Look," she yelled as she got up from where she had been sitting. "I will not allow someone to talk to me like that!"
"You will not take that tone of voice with me young lady!!" he yelled allowing the fustian and disappointment to sep in to his voice. "You're gowned for the next two weeks."
"What about the concert tomorrow night?"
"I'm sorry but you can't go."
"Oh well I can always go next year." She sight as she walked calmly out of the room.
David shook his head, he knew her well enough to know that she was lying about not caring if she went to the concert. But he also knew that she would never let anyone know just how upset she really was.
"Oh, Indy, what would you do?" he whispered in to the empty room
David didn't see Melody again until the next morning, when he came down stare for breakfast. When he walked in to the kitchen he know something was up.
"Daddy!!" cried a little boy from his set at the table
"Shut up, Andrew, remember what he did to Mel?!" shouted his eight-year-old sister, Kimberly as she gave her father an angry glare from where she was standing at the sink cleaning up the dishes from her breakfast.
David shot a look over at Melody, who was eating her meal in the window set that looked out over the gardens. She didn't seem to know what was going on around her do to the fact that she had her headphones on listening to her cd player.
"Morning Honey!" he said to his wife, Alexis, who was sitting at the table reading the morning paper.
"Good morning David" she said dryly
"Not you too." he sight "I'm not going to change my mind. Is that clear?"
"Whatever you say David"
David set down at the table and picked up the local part of the newspaper. He took a sip of his coffee then almost eminently spit it all over the table. Andrew laughed at this.
"I told you putting salt in his coffee would be funny." cried Kimberly.
But it wasn't the taste of his coffee that had surprised him. It was the photo in the paper or to be more precise the group of people in the background.
"What the hell? It can't be," he cried.
Melody looked at her father out of the corner of her eye. She was surprised to see that kind of reaction over a little salt. She was even more surprised to see that his face had gone almost completely white. She watched as David dropped the newspaper and quickly left the room. Curious to see what had scared him she walked over and picked up the page and looked at it. It was a photo of the ground breaking for the new hospital in the back ground studded a young women with her light brown hair in pig tails and a man in his early fifties with bangs that covered half his face.
'Whats so importent about this photo' she wonder
"Beep, Beep"
"Hurry up guys the bus is here!" called their mother
"I just don't understand what got him so upset," Melody said after showing the newspaper to her friends.
"Hey guys, what you talking about?" ask Scott as he walked up to the group sitting under a tree in the courtyard of the school eating their lunch.
"Hey Scott, we're trying to figure out what got Mel's dad upset when he saw this photo." Jamie said holding up the clipping.
"Hey, let me see that. That lady looks………." He trailed off as Melody jumped down out of the tree and went running in to the arms of a guy he had never seen before.
"James, I can't believe you made it," She cried
"Who is that?" Scott ask Jamie as they all got up and went to join Melody.
"That is James, Mel's older brother. He has been gone seen April."
"Oh!"
"Hey guys, long time no see!" smiled James
"Hey welcome back. How was your trip?" Jamie cried as she ran over and tackled the new comer.
"Hey man, what up?" called Matt
"Hey, not much, you?"
"Same."
"I was hoping you would get back in time for my birthday concert." Cried Melody as she hugged her brother.
"Amy and I would never dream of upsetting her royal highness on her birthday!" He laughed, as he picked her up and spun her around.
"What? Amy is here too."
"Of course you don't really expect me to leave my soon to be wife behind now did you?"
"What you ask her yeah"
"James, James." cried Andrew and Kimberly as they came running up to their older brother and sister. "Your back!"
"Hey Rats"
Scott and the others watched the family reunion from a distance.
"I can't believe dad won't let you go to the concert." stated James "I mean if it weren't for you there wouldn't even be one. Maybe I should talk to dad. I could….."
"NO" yelled Melody
"But why?"
"I don't want him to know that its that important to me."
"But he most likely already knows that you were really looking forward to going."
"Just don't say anything. I'll be at the concert. Trust me!"
The lights were out. She had told everyone that she was going to bed. The croutons were blowing in the wind. The moon shown on the silhouette of a person jumping down from the balcony. The figure landed softly with out making a sound. It slowly began to creep away from the house.
"Aw, Melody is sneaking out," whispered Kimberly from the nursery window.
'S,' thought Melody
"But that's ok we'll let her do it this time. It is her birthday after all. But I want a souvenir," chimed in Andrew
Melody looked up at her to younger brother and sister and smile. Then turning she made her way across the yard.
"Have fun," they whispered as they watched Melody slip off in to the night.
"Ladies and gentlemen, can I have you attention, please," called the leader of the band Tommy. "Thank you. I have something I would like to say. I would like you all to make welcome to the stage a dear friend of, well just about, everyone here. Melody Winner!! While she is making her way up here, here is a song for the youth of the earth and colonies."
The music starts up and the band starts singing "Youth of the Nation" (song belongs to P.O.D.
"Thanks for watching the kids. We should be back in a couple minutes. We're just going to pick up Melody and we'll be back," said David as he and Alexis walked out the door of their house.
"I'll shoot the shot Bang you hear round the……" Melody sang the word to her favorite song One girl Revulsion by Super Chickin to the mic.
"BOOOM"
"What the hell was that," she cried as an explosion rocked the statemum.
"We're under attack," screamed someone as everyone ran for cover.
Running out side Melody was joined by Scott, Jamie, Zac, Matt, James, Amy, Kay, and Tommy
"Look its some Moble Dolls," yelled Scott over the noise
"But why are they attacking here" Melody ask
They watch the battle for a few minutes when James notes that the battle was right over the residential part of the town.
"God, NNNOOOO" the scream imitated from Melody's throat as she watched in horror as the hill were her house set went up in flames.
Before anyone knew what had happened Melody had taken off in the direction of her home. Everyone took off after her.
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(Austin: Pumpernickel)