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The girl frowned at the article she was reading in her magazine, her eyes scanning over the same paragraph repeatedly until it sunk in. She suddenly let out a loud laugh. As she fiddled with her hair and moved onto the next page I glanced over to see what was so funny. I read the title "Pranks to play on your little brothers", I smiled to myself, Lizzie would like that.
I continued to gaze at her, her tasselled blonde hair rested on her tanned shoulders and her sleek diamante bracelet slipping down her wrist as she turned the page. Her electric blue eyes flickered upwards and she cocked her head as she noticed my gaze.
"What are you staring at?" she asked with mock anger. I didn't answer, instead I dove my hand into my pocket where I pulled out the crumpled piece of paper. I smoothed out the creases with my thumbs and read the scribble of blue ink.
"Why didn't you give me your name?" I asked, my throat hoarse and my mouth dry.
"I wanted to see how long it took you to realise who I was. My name would be a bit of a give away!"
The way she spoke, the way she laughed, the way she joked… her blue eyes and blonde hair… her concern for me and her knowledge of my life. Her presence.
"Melina?" I gasped. A huge grin spread across her face and we held each other in a friendly intimate hug. We pulled apart, hands still on one another's waists. I struggled for words, "I haven't seen you in like…."
"3 years!" she finished.
"What happened? You just stopped coming to school one day. There were hundreds of rumours going around but I didn't know what to believe. You didn't keep in contact with me, didn't even let me know when or where you were going. That was hard on me Melina, you were my best friend, and you were all I had. You broke my heart." My eyes brimmed with tears.
"You are joking right?" Melina asked, half a smile on her face. I sighed.
"I never could trick you, you know me too well! But seriously I've missed you!" I pulled her back into a hug.
"I missed you too," she whispered.
We spent the next couple of hours exchanging life gossip. Melina had moved away for reasons she didn't yet want to explain, but it was for these reasons that she couldn't phone me. She promised that she had attempted many a time to contact me but got caught every occasion and severely punished for 'risking people finding out where we are, people from that place'. Whatever Hilldrige had done to her family, it had certainly torn them apart.
The door to Miranda and Gordo's ward opened and Lizzie stepped outside. Both Melina and I jumped to our feet.
"Is everything okay?" We asked simultaneously.
"Oh my gosh, Melina is that you?" Lizzie grinned.
"The one and only!" She giggled back. They hugged briefly and Lizzie turned to me.
"Right okay, Gordo and Miranda just kinda broke up," her eyes glistened, but I was unsure whether it was with grief or happiness. I felt the same.
"W…why?" I stammered, "was it because of what I said?" My heart began to race.
"Not really," Lizzie replied. "Okay basically to cut a long, long story short…. Gordo was all worried about 'not making it through' and all this. Miranda has always told him to follow his heart in whatever he does, to be true to himself. He gave a whole speech on being in a near-death experience and thinking if he had or was going to die, he would have died not following his heart and not being true to himself. Basically he was saying that he is with the wrong person, and is sure that Miranda feels the same. There were a lot of tears but they eventually decided that they are both going to follow their hearts even if it means not with each other." Lizzie smiled sympathetically.
"So you mean……." I noticed her grin grow wider.
"Yup, he loves me! He told me after Miranda fell asleep. He always has and always will. Him and Miranda had only dated because they felt they should, there was only two of them and they both loved each other, but just not in the right way."
"Lizzie that's great!" I yelled pulling her into a big hug. "But is Miranda okay with it all?"
"I think so; she was talking to me about it the other day. That she and Gordo just didn't feel right. She's asleep at the moment but I think she might want to talk about it with someone other than me, seeing as I'm the reason Gordo dumped her!"
"I'll just go check on her, apologise for earlier." I said shyly. Lizzie nodded and let me through into the ward. Gordo's curtain was drawn closed and Miranda stirred as I walked in.
"Oh," she blushed, "Hi Matt. Look I'm sorry…." I silenced her.
"Don't. I'm the one who should be sorry, I never should have said that, it wasn't my place to say it and I should've just kept my mouth shut."
"So it was true? Not just a spur of the moment thing?"
"Of course not!" I whispered sitting down on the bed next to her, "Look I'm sorry Randa I can't help how I feel, I've tried so hard to keep it in but I can't any longer."
Miranda began to sob heavily, neither of us really sure what about. I sat right up to her and gently held her against my chest, I could feel her warm tears soaking through my t shirt and I pulled her tighter, my own eyes stinging with tears. Her hair stuck to her damp face and she gripped my knee, heart beating I placed my hand on hers. Quicker than I had put mine on she pulled hers off.
"I'm sorry Matt. I'm so mixed up," she wept, "You're so sweet and you've been so lovely to me. I just don't want to do anything while I'm upset and vulnerable that I will regret later."
I nodded, forcing myself to cough so that I could subtly wipe away my tears. "Maybe your right," I croaked. She hugged me intimately and kissed me on the cheek. I stood up and walked out, shutting the door behind me and sliding down it onto the floor where I sat crumpled and rested my hand where she placed her lips.