The bottle and the letter in my backpack felt like it weighed a lot more then it should be. I just couldn't stop thinking about it when I was walking towards the school.

Dad offered me a ride but I refused. I needed some clearance in my head and how I did that was through walking. just plain walking and thinking but the letter was bothering me a lot. Yesterday I didn't have time to even open it and why the hell was there a bottle of pills with it too.

I decided to take a little detour towards the river court. I know this will result in me being late for the English class but at this moment I don't care.

A few minutes later I arrived. It was very quiet only the sound of the wind hitting the iron basketball net. I went towards the benches and sat down, opened my backpack, and got the letter out. Nervously I opened the letter with a pen. I unfolded the paper and read:

" Dear Melissa,

I didn't know you were alive, to be honest. I haven't known of your existence for a few weeks ago but I just knew I needed to meet you. Unfortunately, there have been some complications in our meeting. Maybe I didn't leave that good of a first impression. I did not intend to shoot at you but someone was in the way of meeting my first and only granddaughter. I know I made some mistakes, which are, to be honest, big ones but I really wanna get to know you. Let's just talk and meet somewhere you feel comfortable. Ohh also I think you need to know something important. Your dad has been hiding a secret from you. As you see, I have a heart condition and it is inheritable. Your dad got it to form me and you could have gotten it from him. Only he is refusing or ignoring it. Therefore I wanted to tell to you. I have seen you playing basketball at training and I know you are struggling to keep up. Next to the letter, there is a bottle of pills. Those are the same pills I take and your father does. If you have trouble again you can take those and see what happens. You can also come to talk to me and we can see a doctor together. Let me know what you wanna do? You can reach me on this number. Love grandad."

I was shocked. What the fuck is this. What does he want from me? Is he playing a game with me or is it just the truth. Why would my dad hide this from me and why would the man who calls me my grandad shot at me and then do this. Should I call him? Should I meet up with him or just ignore it altogether.

My phone rang, It was Liam.

"Mell, where are you?, English class is just over and Miss Scott isn't pleased, to say the least."

"Uhh, I am just dealing with some shit. Will be there a bit later alright?"

"No, I don't think that's alright. Where are you? I will come to you. It seems you are dealing with a lot of shit and haven't told me anything."

"Uhh well, that's the understatement of the year," I replied

"Where are you, Mell? Just tell me so I can help."

"I am at our usual spot, you know what I mean."

"I am on my way."

End Pov Mell

Meanwhile just after English class. Hailey as getting nervous. It's not like Mell to not show up. She ended the class and decided to talk quickly to Liam. Hailey knew Liam and Mell were close.

"Hi Liam, can I talk to you for a second?"

"Yeah sure, Miss Scott. What's up?"

"Do you have any idea where Mell is?"

"To be honest Miss Scott. I don't know. I can give her a call if you like? Maybe she is just sick at home."

"I don't think so Liam, I would have known that. Trust me."

"Okay, how would you know for sure though? I will just give her a call after class alright?"

"That's fine, just let me know okay?" Hailey asked.

"Will do Miss Scott."

At the river court, Mells thought where still one big mess. She didn't know what was happening to her. Why would someone leave a letter like that and drop a big bomb?

Liam saw Mell sitting at the river court. She didn't look like her usual self. She seemed a bit off.

POV Mell

I was so in my world that I didn't notice Liam sitting next to me and putting an arm around me. I broke down. I couldn't handle it anymore. I started crying in his shoulder and he held me what felt like 30 minutes. When I finally stopped crying he said " Are you alright? Wanna talk about it?"

"Yeah, I said. I think I need to talk about it and I trust you."

"Okay, what's up?" He replied

I told him the whole story about how this man called Dan, my so-called grandad came to our house. Shot a gun send me a letter etc. But I left out the part of the heart condition. I didn't want to tell him that. I don't wanna believe that's true.

Liam looked at me shocked. He was as much surprised as me to hear this almost unbelievable story but he didn't question it. He just listened.

"Well one thing to say for sure Mell, is that you are a strong person and I love you. Just know that you can always talk to me about anything right?'

"Wait you love me?" I said

"Yess, I do Liam replied.

"I love you too," I said to him and we kissed.

After another 10 minutes of us sitting together, we decided to go back to school. I calmed down a lot and wanted to have as much normal day as possible.

Liam and I drove towards school. I was on my phone for a bit in the car and saw multiple missed phone calls from Hailey, dad, and mum. Even uncle Nathan had called me a few times. Fuck they would have been worried a lot I guess. I texted mum and dad back that everything is fine and I was just at the river court and forgot the time.

We arrived at school and I went straight with Liam towards my locker to get my books for the next class. We had a history class together.

Everything went relatively fine until the free period. Tash and I were sitting in the library when Coach skills walked in with my Dad. Everybody turned their attention to them while they said:

"Davis, could you come with us please."

I looked at them and said " yeah sure"

Tash looked at me and said, "What do they want with ?"

"I don't know, I replied maybe something to do with me being on the basketball team."

I packed my backpack and followed them towards the coach's offices.

They sat me down and dad started talking.

"Okay, could you please tell me whats is going on ?" He asked

"You didn't show up for most of the morning, missed miss Scots class even, and then you just only text us you are fine. "

"I just had a rough day alright with everything that has been going on with my suppose to be grandad etc."

"I know its hard with Dan being back. I didn't expect him to show up either." Dad replied

Without us, knowing Skills looked very confused about the whole situation. He expected this to be more of a teacher-student talk but it turned out way different.

Skills looked at Dad and said " wait what? why did you text Mell?"

"Lucas what is going on ? and last but not least what has Dan being back to do with Mell?"

Lucas looked at Skills and though. shit.

"Uhh well Skills, we didn't really want a lot of people around the school to know but Mell is my daughter. I wanted to tell you earlier but just couldn't figure out how."

"Okay, uhh well nice to meet you again then Mell?" Skills aid

He looked at Dad and said to him "Also Lucas you need to talk to me after you have had this conversation alright? I need to know what is going on since it is influencing the team now."

"I will don't worry," Dad replied

Skills walked out of the room and Dad and I were the only once still there.

"Okay, let's just have a little chat with just the two of us alright?"

"Yeah, that's fine dad."

"Okay, so what made you decide to skip class for a bit today ?'

"I just needed to breathe a bit, maybe you haven't noticed but what happened with Dan has not been easy on me alright?"

"I can understand that, but why didn't you said so at the breakfast table? We could have talked about it?"

"I just couldn't at that moment. I just needed to walk it off."

"That's fine but could we talk now, mell?"

We talked for about 10 minutes but I didn't tell him about the letter. We just discussed the evening where Dan showed up and what effect it has had on me. In the end, dad pulled me into a hug and said. "Just come to us next time alright?"

"I will, I promise."

The rest of the day and week to be honest was relatively normal. I had the feeling I could breathe a bit more and playing basketball with the team really helped a lot too. I decided to concentrate on the next game that is coming up in a few day's time. I wanted to play my upper best for that game to show that nothing will slow Mell Davis down.

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