Before I begin my usual mindless banter, I'd just like to thank all of you people for reviewing… it really helped me get this far… (realizes that this is only the 6th chapter…) Heh… heh… Oh well… I couldn't have done it with out you guys.
Now on to the part you all ignore…
Here's chapter 6… The last chapter was weird but I think this gets back on track… at least I think it does… no actually I lied… it doesn't…
Standard Disclaimer: Nope… I don't own a thing…
Here we go…
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February 14th, 6:00 am- Valentine's Day
Melody awakened to the sound of someone knocking on the door. It was agonizing… the thuds echoing through her skull the throbbing pain… why? Then yesterday's events all came back to her. "Hangover," she mumbled weakly as she got up. She walked to the door slowly. It was times like this that she regretted the fact that all seven of them all stayed in the Little Rock Inn… "I shouldn't have drank so much… and I shouldn't have stayed in this hotel." Melody opened the door cautiously, for fear that the bright, loud outside world would give her a worse headache.
"Good morning…" greeted Malik a little too happily for Melody's taste. Everything about him exuded happiness… bright blue eyes and that smile… much too perky. Melody frowned in response.
"You have some nerve waking me at this unholy hour of the morning…" she yelled angrily.
Malik looked at her in amusement. Slightly hunched over and squinting due to the light, Melody looked comical more than anything… the aftermath of alcohol abuse. She couldn't expect him to take her seriously now could she?
Malik barely stifled his laughter as he replied, "Its Leehalt's fault, he asked me to wake you."
"I don't care… you've still got some nerve…" Melody turned her head away from him as if she found the wall very interesting.
"Hmm… you know what… I think I liked you better when you were drunk." Melody's head snapped back towards him.
Melody frowned even though she was blushing slightly. "I… I… didn't mean anything by anything what I said yesterday…"
"So you do remember…"
"Yes, just a little…" Melody looked up at him. "I'm sorry for telling you that… I'm sorry that I ever brought it up… I'm sorry… " She stopped for a moment. She was sorry, sorry for leaving everything she held dear behind, sorry she no longer cared and sorry because she found something she held even more dear… Melody sighed. "Ah…I'm sorry for a lot of things."
"Don't say things like that… it's depressing."
"Listen you… I don't care what you say… I have a right to be the way I am… I've gone through a lot," shouted Melody furiously.
"You're completely selfish… do you really think you're the only one who's had a hard life? Don't you care about anyone else but yourself?" exclaimed Malik, his voice suggesting a hybrid between disbelief and anger.
Melody was now quaking in an effort to suppress her fury. "So I guess this is my cue… I'm supposed to say something like 'I care about you'… but I don't… I hate you!" Melody clenched her fists absentmindedly. "I hate the fact that you're always happy… that your life is perfect… that you're perfect… nothing bad ever happens to you!"
"Who are you to tell me what has happened in my life?" growled Malik.
"You're right…" began Melody mockingly. "Who I am to tell you about your life…" She halted, grinning a little maliciously. "So why don't you tell me?"
Malik was silent.
"Aha…" cried Melody. "I knew it… nothing bad has ever happened to you…"
"Oh so I suppose watching my mother die wasn't bad… I guess I should be glad that I don't even remember my father… It was great being a fifteen year old orphan… oh and drifting across the wasteland was great fun…"
Melody stared at him. She was shocked… "Umm… I'm really sorry…" It was the first time in a long time that she was completely honest.
"Hmph… no you aren't, you loathe me… remember?" reminded Malik. Melody was now furious. She had been completely honest for the first time in a long time, and this is what it got her?
"Yes... I do loathe…" Melody took a deep breath. "How could I not… hollow, unfeeling bastard that you are…"
The words impacted Malik greatly. Melody smiled a half smile… she had found the gaping hole in his defenses and she knew it. She should have been happier… but she couldn't, no, not after she saw just how much she had hurt him. Not after she saw him stumble backwards as if his legs had acted on their own. She saw his expression… he was lost and his eyes glazed over with tears. She couldn't be happy… not when he bit down on his lip to hold back a choked sob. He was biting his lip… he had lips so soft they only deserved to be kissed… Melody wanted to apologize but couldn't… she just couldn't....
Suddenly he collected himself. He was back to his old façade… no pain visible. That was he was back to his façade… his eyes were a different story entirely… she could see how he felt. However, she ripped her attention from his eyes to look at him. He smirked. It was the type of smile a tiger would give its prey… the type of smile you would flash right before you ripped a person's soul apart. Melody knew… she had seen it many times on her own face.
"Why don't you just go back to your love… out in the wasteland, dead… the one you abandoned, the one who loved you… the only one who ever could?" asked Malik. After each syllable Melody felt something incredibly sharp being jabbed into her heart. For once, Melody was speechless… "Let me guess…" continued Malik, "Cold? Heartless? The truth?"
She was the first to cry. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she yelled, "I hate you!!"
"The feeling is mutual…"
"Get out already, leave!" she yelled.
Malik didn't reply; he complied with her command and seemed almost glad. Melody slammed the door. She marched back to her bed and sat down. She felt so angry…What could she do now? She lay down, sprawled across the bed. "Well Melody," she mumbled to herself… "You've just destroyed another thing you care about… how do you feel?" She laughed; laughing at how stupid and pitiful she was. She stopped gradually until the whole room was silent. "I need a beer…"
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That was a little weird… as are my other chapters… Please Review… The next chapter will be longer I think…