Once and Always
Chapter 1
Note:
The kids have been saved from the island & are home safe & sound, I'll shut up now!
It was a hot day in L.A. and they where all at the air conditioned mall.
The girls where in k-mart looking at the clothes, Taylor was looking at the $100 and over area, Mel & Daley where looking at the $30 dollar and under area, and the boys where sitting on a bench talking about the island.
"Found anything Mel?" Daley said.
"Nope, I had found something but it was too much" Mel replied.
"Oh, where?" Taylor said with a wide grin.
Melissa rolled her eyes.
"What time is it?" Mel asked.
Daley looked at her watch.
"Wow, its 4:55pm, we gotta get out of here, it closes at 5:00pm"
"But I'm still looking!" Taylor complained.
"Fine get locked in here with the wild dogs" Melissa said jokingly before laughing with Daley.
"AAAHHH!!" Taylor screamed running out of the store.
Daley & Mel laughed out loud, at that moment the boys laughed the look on Taylor's face.
Taylor realised they where lying & got angry and stamped her feet.
They all tried to not laugh but couldn't.
They finally stop laughing at Taylor with a big sigh.
"Hey do all you guys wanna come to my place for dinner?" Mel said walking out of the store with Daley.
"Yeah, sure, I'll come" Nathan said.
"We'll come" Taylor said meaning her and Eric.
Eric smiled as if to say 'that's fine with me'.
"We'll all come" Daley said smiling.
They all agreed to Daley's idea, and went to their cars.
Daley had her license but no car, so she got a lift home with Nathan.
"Um…..how's Lex been lately?" Nathan said when they stopped at a set of red lights.
"He's good, still a little tired, he has a friend over so he's allowed to stay home" Daley said.
The rest of the trip was silent, they got to Daley's house and Nathan parked in the driveway.
"Were here" Nathan said nervously.
"I'm gonna have a quick shower and get dressed, will you be back in time" Daley asked.
"I'm not gonna go home, I'll wait here"
"Is that ok?"
"Yeah" Nathan said.
She was about to get out but Nathan grabbed her arm and said:
"Daley, wait"
"What?"
She got back in the car properly, he leaned in and kissed her.
They pulled away slowly.
"I'm gonna go have a shower now, ok?" Daley said excited.
She hopped out of the car, she was at the door and she whispered:
"Score"
(FYI: Daley moved out into another house, and lex lives with her)
It was like their eyes where glued on the TV screen, they had the biggest eyes Daley had seen.
Daley snuck up on their backs & put her hands on their shoulders while saying:
"RAH!"
"AAAHHH!" Lex & Chad (lex's friend) screamed & hid behind the couch.
"Lex, it's me" Daley said laughing.
Lex peeped up from behind the couch.
"Chad, get up, it's Daley" Lex said as if Chad was stupid.
Chad got up so fast he nearly fell over.
"Hi Daley" Chad said looking into her eyes.
"What's wrong with him?" Daley bent down and asked lex.
"he has a crush on you"
Daley had a grossed out look on her face.
"Nathan's here in his car, you wanna go see him?" Daley said.
Lex nodded & smiled.
He ran out to the car leaving Chad to look at the extra features on the DVD.
Lex hopped in the car.
"Heyyyyy" Nathan said.
"Hey Nathan, I heard you guys park, but it took Daley a while to get in the house, why?" lex said with a worried face.
What do I tell him? Especially when it's Daley's stepbrother! Nathan thought.
"Nathan?"
"Oh, well um…..we sort of….." it was hard for Nathan to get it out.
"You didn't, you know, do what I think you did, right?" Lex said hopefully.
"And that would be?" Nathan asked, he was eager to know.
"You know, lock lips?"
Nathan nodded.
It was all silent till Daley came out to the car.
"Hey lex, go back inside please, mums coming in a few minutes to look after you & Chad, what's going on here?"
Nathan was mouthing words at Daley, he was meant to be saying:
'He knows that we kissed'
Daley got what he was mouthing.
"Look, lex it didn't mean anything, ok?" Daley said disappointed.
"Yep" lex answered.
He got out of the car and waved good-bye for the night.
"Daley, do you really think the kiss meant nothing?" Nathan said pulling out of the driveway.
"Well, I think it meant something, but I can't tell lex that"
"Your right, he would be the first one to freak out" Nathan made a point.
Later that night at Mel's…
All you could hear was knifes & forks hitting plates.
"Mel, we need to talk to you" Melissa mother Anna said.
"Ok" Mel answered.
"Well?" Mel said confused.
"In private" her mother said in an obvious tone.
She walked in to the kitchen with her parents.
"Lissy, were moving to Australia" Mel's dad John said with a disappointed look on his face.
"WHAT?!" she screamed.
Everyone eating in the dining room looked at the kitchen all at the same time, some with food still in their mouths or just about to eat food, for Eric he had mashed potato on his fork and it fell off on to his new top.
"Shhh" Mel's mother said.
"But that means Jackson won't have a chance to ask me out!!"
Jackson could hear everything.
I was meant to ask her out? Jackson thought.
She walked out of the kitchen fast & furiously, she sat down and started to eat her veggies while everyone was looking at her.
She looked up at everyone slowly.
"What?" she said.
They all went back to eating silently. Mel leaned towards Daley and asked her:
"What's all this about?"
"Nothing" Daley answered.
A few hours later Nathan & Daley left for home.
Then they all left one by one, until it was only Mel & Jackson.
"Um…Mel, can I talk to you in your room?" Jackson asked.
"Sure" Mel said excited.
They both walked up stairs together without making eye contact. They got to her room and Mel opened her door and let him got in first, she had 4 round rice paper lanterns on, one pink, one blue, one purple, and one green.
It was like a glowing rainbow.
He sat on her bed, and then she sat beside him.
"So, what's up?" she said.
"Well, I heard you say that I won't have a chance to ask you out, I was meant to ask you out?" Jackson asked
"Oh, no you didn't, I mean you don't have to ask me out if you don't want to"
"And, why won't I be able to ask you out?" Jackson was eager to know why.
"Oh, well…I, I….I'm moving"
"What, when?" he asked.
"Tomorrow night, my mum & dad have been secretly packing my stuff, that's why most of my stuff has gone missing" she answered his question.
He closed his eyes tightly, tears came running down his face.
Mel saw the tears on his cheeks.
"Jackson, what's wrong?"
He opened his eyes and reached into his pocket, and pulled out a bracelet for Mel.
"It was for our 10 week anniversary for how long we've known each other" he said still crying.
"Jackson, it's beautiful" she said.
They looked into each other's eyes, leaned in and kissed.
They pulled away, the felt guilty for no reason. Then they looked at each other and held hands.
So, do you like it? 3rd reviewer will get a sneak peek of chapter 2, Mwah: -