Chapter 26:

Mel POV :

Mel gulped down to glasses of water. "Babe you ok?" Matt asked walking into the kitchen. She had just jumped out of bed and run into the kitchen.

"Dry throat." She claimed. It had been a few weeks since the fight with Danny and she had been prepping for classes and Matt had been accepted into the art program.

"You just took off are you sure you're ok?" Matt asked worried. Mel filled the cup again and gulped down a third glass of cold water. It felt good sliding down her throat, which had gone dry.

Mel set the cup in the sink and turned to Matt wiping away excess water on her upper lip. "I uh had this dream." She said softly.

"Well what was it about?" Matt asked.

That means he didn't dream it too. It must be just my imagination. Mel thought silently to herself praying that it was just that. Her imagination. "We…were…well…married…" Mel stumbled on her words.

"That's not going to be news in a few years." He joked.

"Matt!" Mel chastised. "I wasn't finished."

Matt nodded and gently stroked her cheek to calm her down. Mel sighed. "I'm sorry finish." He said softly.

Mel closed her eyes not wanting to see his face when she said the next part. "I saw…a…a um…a baby, Matt." Mel sighed.

Matt's hand stopped caressing her cheek and held frozen on her skin. "Oh." He said quietly and if Mel wasn't mistaken a little shocked.

"It's nothing though. It's gotta be just my imagination. Right?" Mel pleaded with him as she opened her eyes and hot tears threatened to fall.

Matt smiled at her and wiped away a stray tear that let lose. "Yeah that's all it is. Your imagination." He said sweetly.

Mel took a few deep breaths and released as well. "I'm sorry if I freaked. It's just I've been thinking about those dreams again lately."

"What about them?" Matt asked hugging her to his body and walking back towards their room.

"In the original, we got together or whatever, right?" Mel asked.

"Yeah." Matt answered.

"Well shortly after we got together. And then in the next we made love and shortly after we ended up making love. But if you didn't have the same dream as me tonight it probably is just my imagination." Mel said quickly.

"Mel calm down." Matt said leading her into the room and over to the bed. Mel sat on the edge next to Matt. "It was just a dream." He said.

Mel nodded and they laid down together and got comfortable under the covers. "I love you Matty."

"I love you to Lindy Bug. Go to sleep!" He whispered kissing her forehead as she lay her head on his shoulder and fell back to sleep.

3 Weeks Later:

Mel was sitting at a park table just outside of the digital art building of campus eating her lunch when she felt a small shiver run up her spine. "Matty what did I tell you about staring?" She asked giggling.

She heard the healthy chuckle that escaped Matt as he finished walking over and sat next to her giving her a kiss on the lips. "It sucks that you can do that. I want to sneak up on you, just once."

"Ok next time I'll pretend not to know your watching." She giggled.

Matt rolled his eyes and shook his head in a playful notion. "No it wouldn't be any fun that way. How long have we been dating?"

"Almost five months, next month." Mel answered.

"We should tell them." Matt said suddenly.

Mel glanced at him. "About?" She asked.

Matt took her left hand and swiped his thumb lightly over her toy ring. "This." He said knowing she knew what he meant.

"Are you sure? I mean you don't think they'll freak cause it's a little sudden?" Mel asked skeptical and worried.

Matt sighed. "Look we are adults and we know what we want, right? So maybe this is just something they'll have to accept. Besides I think your Aunt sort of caught on to the ring that night she helped Max fix you up, she saw it and asked."

Mel snickered. "I forgot I told her about that. And Maria. I'm surprised our mom's haven't noticed it."

Matt chuckled. "They've been a little pre occupied lately."

"I know. Ok if you think it's a good time to tell them, then we'll tell them. Tonight at dinner."

"Oh right the dinner."

"Yeah. Everyone will be at the Evans'. I even invited Jess and Shayn, but she already knows." Mel said softly.

Matt nodded. "And that means you've put trust in her again." He said happy for his girlfriend.

Mel smiled. "Yeah. Hey look if I were to tell Jess about us being…different would you be ok with it?" She asked softly.

Matt looked to Mel and his hand went up to her cheek and gently cupped it making her look at him. "It's up to you. I don't have any problems with it."

"I'm just sort of afraid that she'll freak."

"If she does we can always ask Zan to help replace the memory." Matt said slightly nervous about that.

Mel shook her head quickly to disagree. "No, no. He isn't experienced enough with that yet. There is no way I am unleashing him on her." She said sternly. Her expression softened. "I'm just going to have to pray she takes it well."

Matt smiled. "If she's really your friend she'll accept you and us for what we really are."

"So, I'll tell her tonight." Mel decided. "Is it normal for my insides to feel like mush?"

Matt laughed lightly. "Yeah. But don't worry. Everything will be fine. I have to get to class but I'll meet you at the car after?"

"Oh right I have something to show you before we head over the Evans'. And when are you going to tell me what you've been painting the last week." Mel smiled sweetly at him.

Matt smirked. "When it's finished and after it's graded." He said kissing her quickly. "Got to go. Love ya."

"Love ya see you later."

After Class:

Matt POV:

"Mel where are you taking me?" Matt asked watching as she drove along down the deserted highway.

Mel looked to him and smiled. "You'll see." She said. Pulling up to what looked like an abandoned garage/ gas station along the way Matt got a little nervous.

"We aren't here so you can hack my head off or leave me for some loon who likes wax to get me are you?" He asked nervously.

Mel giggled. "Of course not. And that bad reference to House of Wax was not appreciated. That movie was lame on all accounts."

"Ok so what are we doing here?"

"Michael and I have been fixing it up and our first project is inside. I want to show you." Mel said getting out of the car. Matt climbed out and looked at it.

"My dad bought this?" He asked.

Mel nodded. "And we've got bigger plans for it. I'm gonna work her part time for him until it's fixed up completely."

"Why not just use a little alien magic?" Matt chuckled.

Mel rolled her eyes at him as she took his hand and led him to a garage door. "See if someone comes in to town one day and it looks like crap and leaves the next day and it looks like a million bucks, that'll cause suspicion. So we are doing this the right way. Kyle and Michael are business partners in this. They figure if they open this place and it works they can open a few more along the highway."

Matt nodded. "Ok I get it. So what's this project?"

Mel smiled and bent over not releasing his hand and lifted the garage door up. "Surprise!" Came a bunch of shouts. Matt looked inside and saw his father, mother and Kyle standing in front of a car.

"What's this?" Matt asked his girlfriend.

Mel looked to the others and nodded and they moved out away from the car. "This Matty is your new car. Me and Michael rebuilt it to your specifications." Kyle cleared his throat. "And Kyle helped too."

Matt looked at her stunned. She built me a car? She built me a car? I can't believe this. "I…don't know what to say. And what do you mean by my specifications."

"It's a sixty-nine ford Shelby mustang GT five hundred. I sort of hacked into your laptop and stole the stuff you were working on. So I already knew when you showed it to me that day of my interview."

"How I wasn't even finished?" Matt asked walking over with Mel and running his hands along the glistening midnight blue paint of the hood and there were two glossy white racing strips down the center.

Mel shrugged a bit. "We improvised." Mel said smiling.

"This is absolutely incredible." Matt said in awe of the car.

Mel giggled. "Well just think it's all yours." She said playfully squeezing his hand.

Matt looked over at her and before he could stop himself he leaned down and gave her a kiss. "Thank you."

"Not just me. Your dad was a big help and so was Kyle." Mel said looking at the two guys.

Matt nodded and went and high five'd Kyle and then gave his dad a quick manly hug. "Thanks you guys this is absolutely amazing." Maria pulled him into a one armed hug and kissed his cheek.

"I just had to be here to see your face after Michael told me what they had been working on secretly." She kidded with her son.

Michael chuckled. "Yeah it was pretty funny. I mean…" He mimicked the shocked look Matt had just a few moments before. Matt punched him jokingly in the arm.

"Shut up." He said playfully and slightly embarrassed.

Michael rolled his eyes and gave up putting his hands up in mock surrender. "All though I wish I could take all the credit for this I can't. Mel came to me with the idea I just agreed to help when I was needed."

Matt's smiling face looked from his father to his girlfriend who was now perched on the hood of the car. She put her hands up with a playful grin. "I didn't scratch it I swear." She kidded. Matt joked and walked over towards her, Maria releasing her from her one arm. "Want to know how I did this, worked, and managed to spend time with you without you getting suspicious?" She asked jokingly.

Smirking at her Matt nodded. "Yeah I sure as hell would."

"Matthew Mitchell Guerin watch your language." Maria scolded.

Matt and Mel both chuckled at that. "Sorry mom." Matt said jokingly apologetic.

Mel smiled at him as he stood in front of her. Arms crossed over his chest waiting for an answer to her own joking question. "So when I would spend time with Jess, I would bring her here. So she's known about the car since before the fight we had."

Matt nodded and grinned at her. "It didn't take you long to remodel this car." He said thinking back to the fight between Mel and Jess and if it was before that, then it had taken only months. "It takes years for some people."

"Well when Jess wasn't with me I would use a little short cut here and there. But as for the parts that was easy, most junkyard owners haven't got a clue these days as to what classifies as a rare part. I got this engine for a fair price."

"Where'd you find the main framing of the car?" Matt asked. He hadn't seen a shell of a sixty-nine mustang since he was a kid.

Mel smiled. "I think I'll keep that my secret."

"So do I get the keys?" Matt asked her teasingly.

Mel grinned and pointed to Michael. "One thing first." Michael said.

Matt grinned. "What's that?"

"Take it easy on this car. Mel put a lot of work into it and I would hate to see it demolished." Michael said.

"Wow spaceboy not taking all the credit for yourself I see." Maria giggled.

Michael chuckled. "Not this time, besides Mel would kick me if I tried." He joked.

Mel rolled her eyes chuckling. Matt laughed too. "Yeah I promise not to demolish it. Besides if she spent that much time working on it, I should treat it like I would mine own child."

He felt a small shuttered run through him, but he was just sensing it from Mel. Even talk about children since her dream got her a little nervous. "Alright here." Michael handed him the only set of keys so far. "Be good to her."

"Mel or the car?" Matt asked jokingly hearing a 'ha, ha' from his girlfriend in the background.

"Both." Maria instructed.

Matt took the keys and headed over to Mel again as the other's decided to leave them alone and head out to get ready for the dinner party at the Evans'. "Mel could you close up before you guys leave?" Kyle asked.

"Sure thing." Mel said not moving from her perch on the hood. Kyle left following Maria and Michael to the van that was parked behind the building so Matt wouldn't have seen it upon arrival. Mel looked to Matt again smiling. "So zero to sixty in six point five seconds flat." She said brightly. "And she tops out at about one forty."

Matt grinned at her and stepped forward wrapping his arms around her waist while she spread her legs to allow him to lean in closer and she locked her knees on either side of his waist. "You gonna kiss me?" Mel asked jokingly.

"Thinking about it." Matt replied leaning in a little closer.

Mel smirked. "Think faster." She said leaning a little closer to him their lips just barely touching.

Matt returned her smirk playfully brushing across her lips with his own. "Ok I've thought about it." He grinned.

"And?" Mel asked teasingly.

Matt pressed his lips firmly to hers in fiery kiss their lips caressed each other softly as their heads tilted constantly in motion as they began to go from a kiss to making out. Mel slipped Matt tongue and he didn't object as his gently rolled with hers pushing back and forth from his to her mouth repeatedly.

Mel finally pulled away panting for air as she realized her hands clenched tight to Matt's shirt in an attempt to stay close to him while they made out and to bring him as close as humanly possible in that position. "Wow." She whispered opening her eyes and smiling at him.

Matt chuckled breathlessly. "Yeah."

Mel took a deep breath and released it. "Come on. We should go. The Evans' will be expecting us soon." She said softly.

Matt sighed. "I know."

Her hands released his shirt and her knees unlocked his waist. "You're welcome, by the way." Mel said sweetly.

This made Matt smile. "I don't know really any thing other than thank you, to say to you."

Mel smiled and kissed his cheek. "You can thank me later." She whispered in his ear seductively. "Now pull out so I can lock up." Mel giggled hopping off the hood, making very sure she didn't scratch the pristine paint job.

Chuckling softly he walked over to the drivers side and got in and started up the car. The engine roared. God I must be dreaming. Matt thought silently. He pulled out of the garage and Mel closed and locked up and headed to her own car. Matt pulled up along side her car and rolled down his passenger window. "I'll follow you." He said.

Mel nodded. "Good idea. Keep up." Mel smirked and pulled out closely followed by Matt as they headed to the Evans' for dinner, news and telling a little secret to someone new.