Chapter 11 - Betrayed

After Jackson had left Melissa at her locker he headed to his own. He was having a pretty good morning so far; his History teacher hadn't yelled at him for coming into class late, he hadn't seen Taylor and there was no drama between him and Melissa anymore.

His morning was going well until he saw Abby standing by his locker from down the hall. Jackson remained cool and continued to walk to his locker not making any eye contact with Abby as he got closer.

"Hey." Abby said with a firm tone in her voice looking at the tall boy.

Jackson spoke without looking at Abby. "Came up with a nickname for me too?"

Abby sighed. "I'm sorry for what I said to Taylor the other day, okay?"

"I'm not the one you should be apologizing too." Jackson replied back still not making eye contact with Abby.

Jackson then faced her. "It doesn't matter anyway, she's over it and I'm not really mad it's just….you should watch what you say." He told her.

"Why should I?" Abby snapped. "It's true isn't it?" Taylor stole you from Melissa, she knew you and Melissa were together, she just had to-"

Jackson shook his head and cut in. "No, Abby, she didn't. She doesn't know Mel and I had….something." Jackson said nervously.

"She doesn't know?' Abby thought for a moment. "So, you basically dumped Mel for Taylor?"

"It wasn't like that!" Jackson shot back. "When we got back home Mel and I didn't really talk about what happened between us on the island and-"

"That's because there was nothing to talk about. Mel already thought you two were a 'couple' when we all returned home." Abby pointed out. "Until you told her you were going out with Taylor. You played her Jackson."

Abby glared at Jackson mischievously. "You know, Melissa would hate you if she heard about this."

Jackson took all the things he needed from his locker then slammed the locker door. "You better keep your mouth shut, alright?" He snapped.

Abby smiled. "Oh, don't worry Jackson, I don't have to say anything."

Jackson looked at Abby with confusion, she was constantly looking over his shoulder then looking back at him.

"What are you looking at?" He asked. Abby raised her hand then pointed. Jackson slowly turned around behind him, his blue eyes widened and his mouth slightly opened.

Melissa had been standing near by and heard most of Jackson and Abby's conversation. She had a frown and looked as if she was on the verge of tears.

"I'll leave you two to talk." Abby said with a smirk on her face, she knew Jackson was about to get his head bitten off. She walked up to Melissa and whispered to her.

"Go easy on him, Mel." Then looked back at Jackson and gave him a wink and left the two alone.

While scratching his head Jackson stared at the ground trying to figure out what to say. He looked up at Melissa who no longer looked like she was about to cry.

Jackson was about to say something when Melissa cut in.

"You never told Taylor about us?" She asked. Melissa felt like screaming at Jackson but after creating a scene with Taylor in the hall minutes ago she didn't want to start another one, so she kept her voice low.

"No." Jackson replied staring at Melissa helplessly in the eye.

"So, instead of telling her, you go out with her instead?" Jackson just stared back at the ground again.

Melissa shook her head in disbelief and began walking away, but Jackson grabbed her arm.

"Mel, I'm sorry." He said, apologetically.

She briskly turned around and faced him. "Yeah, me too!" Melissa shouted.

Jackson let go of Melissa's arm, he was taken aback by her tone. "Mel, please just-"

"No, no Jackson." Melissa's voice was low and calm again. " I don't wanna hear it." She said then walked away.

"Just hear me out Mel, please?" Jackson yelled to her, but she continued walking.

"DAMN IT!" Jackson was angry and slammed his fist into one of the lockers and headed in another direction.

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Later that day, around 6:30pm Melissa was at home studying for exams as well as helping her mom in the kitchen with dinner, when the door bell started ringing. Melissa looked at her mom questioningly.

"Who's that?……Are you expecting somebody?"

"No. Are you?" Her mom asked. Melissa shook her head, no.

"I'll go see who it is." Mrs. Wu said while walking out the kitchen. And Melissa buried her face back in her book.

She heard her mom conversing with the person which sounded like a guy and thought it was probably one of the neighbours.

"Melissa!" Her mom called to her. "Cody's here!"

'Cody?' "I mean, Jackson is here!" Her mom shouted again. 'Oh, great. Cody Jackson, just the guy I wanted to see.' Melissa said sarcastically to herself.

She put on a fake smile and went to the front door where her mom and Jackson were standing.

"I'll head back to the kitchen." Mrs. Wu said looking at the two teens. They both nodded to her.

Melissa watched her mom go back in the kitchen, then put on a straight face and watched back at Jackson.

"What are you doing here?" She asked him. "Um, I - I came to give this back to you."

He said while handing her the folder she gave him earlier at school. Melissa had forgotten she let him borrow her history notes.

"Thanks." She said staring at the folder.

Jackson spoke. " Look, I know you hate my guts right now and you probably don't wanna talk to me either…..so I left a note in there." He said pointing at the folder in her hands.

"It's kinda long, so I hope you read it." Jackson said apprehensively.

"Anyway, I'm gonna go now."

"Good idea." Melissa shot back then shut the door in Jackson's face.

Melissa ran to her room, took out the two pages of Jackson's writing from the folder, she hesitated at first, but then held them up and ripped them to pieces and threw them in the garbage. She didn't bother to read the note, not even the first sentence. Melissa didn't give a shit about what Jackson had to say in that note. She didn't give a shit about Jackson anymore.

AHH! Mel, you should have read the note!! Lol Hope you all liked the chapter, please review if you liked it or not.

There will be 3 or 4 (I'm guessing) more chapters until this story is complete!

Next chapter - Chapter 12 - PROM