At First Sight
Chapter 9
"No stay away you jerk!" SLAP "I told you to get away!"
"B-But why! You're not taken are you? Please-"
SLAP
"Don't say my name!"
"What? Why-"
SLAP
"Just! Don't! Just… I mean… I don't like this! You! I don't like any of this!"
"We might as well make the best out of this situation! Come on, Melody."
"Don't call me that!"
"Why not, I like it."
SLAP
Everyone in the store winced every time the sound of a slap echoed throughout the area. When I first walked in and the sound of her voice hit my ears and I came running to her. And of course, being the polite guy I am, I listened in on the conversation (Which wasn't making any sense so far). I peered over the corner of the wall and ducked back as fast as I could when she looked my way.
"There you are!" she beamed. She jerked my arm so I was next to her then motioned from the guy to me. She smiled at me widely then patted my chest. "I found him!" she said then turned to the guy in front of her. "See Nobunaga? I found him!"
"Found me?" I asked blankly.
She hit me in the rib sharply with her elbow then grinned over at me. "Remember how you told me over dinner last night that you wanted to talk to Nobunaga about… about… your music!" she beamed.
"Music?" I asked. We met over dinner? Wait a minute… I was so lost.
"Yes! Remember the nice waiter spit in your soup!" she cooed and set her head on my shoulder for a brief moment before she shoved me into 'Nobunaga' and ran off.
"Wait! Come back Melody!" Nobunaga shouted and pushed me away.
BING! NAME! "Melody?" I asked.
"Nick name." Nobunaga said.
BANG! CRASH! BUUUUUUUURRRRN!
"DANGIT! Then what's 'Melody's' name?" I demanded.
"Melody." he said.
"But you said that was a nick name." I growled.
"Yeah, but we call her that because she can sing really good."
"Then what's her real name?" I asked.
He sneered at me. "Why should I tell you?" he asked and walked off sulking.
Nobunaga: 1
Me: 0
Oh, he was seriously going to pay.
I ran off to try to find where 'Melody' ran off to. I stopped a few people along the way saying, "Did you just see a girl run by?" and apparently, seeing a girl run by isn't unusual so practically everyone asked me which one. I sighed and leaned against the wall then pulled out my list, recalling my day searching for 'Melody'.
Cherries Diner
Cherries Club
Cherries Bar and Grill
Cherries Night Club
Cherries Dance
Cherries Dorm
Cherries Secret
Cherries Park
Cherries
I crossed off Cherries Diner. That had been lovely…
I walked into the restaurant and up to the waitress next to the sign that said, PLEASE WAIT TO BE SEATED. She had blonde hair with blue tips and black highlights, was popping pink bubble gum in her mouth and reading a book titled, 'Offbeat Oddities: My rebellious Life' "Umm hi, this might sound weird but-" I stopped when she didn't even look up from her book. "Hello?" I asked.
She flipped a page in her book and snapped her gum. "I'm reading." She said annoyed then rolled her eyes and flipped a page.
"Umm… Okay so much for the costumer…." I mumbled and started to turn around before someone stopped me.
"Is there a problem here?" the manager asked me.
The girl spoke up. "Uh, yeah!" she said preppy and annoyed. "I was reading and this guy like soooo disturbs me."
The manager turned to me. "Is this true?" he asked me.
I blinked slowly trying to figure out what was going on. "Huh?" I asked.
The manager sighed and set a hand on my shoulder. "Okay, I'm gonna haffta ask you to leave, sir."
He pushed me out the door then stuck his head out and said to me, "Isn't she great? This makes three months we've been going out!" then he slammed the door on my face.
So the diner sucked, I was sure 'Melody' wouldn't work there. Next would be the club. I looked around for a street sign and a saw something else that caught my eye. Melody.
Before she knew what hit her I ran up and grabbed her arms from behind her. She screamed. "AAAAHHHHH! ATTACKER-" she stopped when she turned her head and saw me. She gave out a sigh of relief then turned to the people who stopped the stare at her. "False alarm people move on, keep going that's right nothing to see!" she glared at an old man. "What are you looking at? Go back to a poker club or something!" he shook his head and walked off mumbling something under his breath.
"Oww, ever think of how my ears are kinda CONNECTED to my head?" I asked and set a chin on her shoulder. "You know you're very hard to find, Mel."
She tensed. "How do you know my nick name?" she asked suspiciously then hit her head. "Duh! Nobunaga!" she rolled her eyes and tried to jerk out of my grip.
"Ah ah, you're not moving from this spot until you answer my questions or tell me your real name." I winked.
She rolled her eyes again and stepped on my foot. "There's my answer." she smiled.
I winced and brought my foot up to rub it. "Who's Nobunaga?" I asked.
"A jerk." She said simply. "And I'm not saying anything else."
I decided to play with her head, it can be pretty fun and I still needed to pay her back for the phone conversation. "Really, now? A jerk? Bigger than me?" I asked.
"Oh much bigger." She shook her head and crossed her arms. "Stop trying to manipulate me into telling you."
"I'm not manipulative." I said. "Just cunning. So, since this guy is a bigger jerk than me I'd have to do something really bad to surpass him on your Jerk-O-Meter, right?"
She sent me a weak glare. "I'm not saying anything."
"Ah, but you just said something with saying you weren't going to say anything." I grinned.
"Whatever…" She mumbled and turned to walk away but I grabbed her arms again and wrapped a leg around hers so she couldn't move.
"Ah ah, you're not going anywhere." I said. "I don't care if I have to tie you up Mel."
"Stop calling me that!" she snapped. "It's a dumb nickname."
"But if you live up to the nick name I'd want to work with you." I said.
"Do you mind?" she asked motioning to my legs. "This looks really weird and your breath is tickling my neck." she turned her head to look at me, which pretty much gave us a tiny bit of room to move. She blushed and turned her head away.
I brought her arms around in front of her stomach and grabbed them with one hand. With my free hand I grabbed her chin and turned her head back to me then blew her bangs out of her face. "You should trim your bangs, their covering your eyes." I said then grinned at her crimson face.
She wriggled under my grasp and managed to break free but I still had an arm. "I have to go." she said quickly hiding her eyes under her bangs. She jerked her arm free from me and ran off.
"Wait!" I yelled but she didn't turn back, she just kept running away from me.
