"NO! Traiter, I trusted you! I loved you!" Terra yelled at the top of her loungs. "Who is she?"
Melissa's turn to stare. "Right, another important question. Who is she?" Raven's eyes slitteed from Terra, to Melissa to beast boy. She was pretty sure that he wouldn't want Melissa to know about her romances with Terra.
"You what?" Beast Boy asked, now staring at Terra.
"I loved you." She said quietly. Terra could practacly feel Slade's anger on the other side of her ear piece.
"What?" Melissa's turn to look hurt. What was Beast Boy talking about?
"Lets go," Robin said quietly. "She doesn't deserve your symphathy."
Melissa fallowed the titians away, staring back at the blonde. "How could he do this to me," she thought, suspecting the worst.
"Melly, you need to know somthing about her." Raven whispered, once they were in thesaftyof a cove near titins tower.
"Oh yeah I do,who was she? Why does she love my boyfriend? Or do you just not care about me anymore? I go away, you don't answer my letters, you don't call, and you get a new girlfriend?"
"Melissa, I..." Beast Boy looked sick. Raven could see it on him. His face was turning green. Actually, it was green, but that was besides the point.
"don't try to talk to me!" She yelled. "You had your chance!" Melissa started to cry.
"Melissa, come here for a second. Raven took her aside and told her the whole story.About Terra, thinking she was dead, and Slade. Melissa looked a little weird at the mention of Slade. But, it passed.While this was happening, she took looks and Beast Boy, Robin, and sometimes stared at the floor. No one spoke, except Raven.
Once Raven had finished, Beast Boy walked up to her and said, in nothing more that a whisper, "I'm so sorry."
Melissa threw her arms around his neck. She quietly sobbed into his shoulder. "I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have said those things..." Beast boy put his face into her neck. He was crying too. "I never should have replaced you, I just saw so much of you in her, she made the pain stop... I'm so sorry..."
He kissed her. Robin looked away. Secretly, inside, he grinned. Now, he thought of Melissa like a little sister. He loved her in that way.
They all agreed on one thing. Terra was going down.
"We need a plan," Robin said for the hundreth time that hour. None of the titans had slept well that night.Robin especially. But, it might pay off. He might have thought of somthing important...
"I've got one," Melissa said. "We all go in, when Terra's there without Slade. Then, Beast Boy and me go confrount her."
"Melissa," Robin said sternly. "you're not coming with us."
"What?" Melissa didn't understand. "Why not?"
"I figured somthing out last night."
"What?"
"Well, number one, you wern't with your little brother, you never had one. Second, your dad died years ago. Your mom remarried. Then, soon, very soon after, she was killed." Melissa stared at the floor. He was right. She had lied about that part...
"Also," Robin went on, "Your stepfather was abusive. You always had your powers. He was hitting you one day and you lost control, adn the volcano went off." It hurt him to say this. It hurt him to hurt her...
Tears ran down her cheeks. "Yes. All those people... they didn't deserve it..."
Robin stepped up and she cried into his sholder. She neededto cry it out...
After a couple moments, she wiped her eyes, stood her ground, and said, "Right. Robin, the reason I need to go, is because if there is one good bone in Terra's body, I can find it. If there is one spot, even just one, that is good, I can find it. And," She turned to Beast Boy, "I'm gunna need BB there standin' next to me.Helping me. Find that one bone."
Cyborg was sure that she had won over Robin. He was sure. But, All Robin said was, "No, Melly. I can't let you go. There's one more thing you're forgetting. When you met your stepdad..."
Melissa gasped. "I had blonde hair, and I told him my name was Tessa. He called himself Slade."
"Your right. Slade thinks that Terra is you."