I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
A/N: SO THIS IS THE LAST CHAPTER, I AM SO SORRY ITS SO SHORT BUT THINK IT WAS CUTE WHILE IT LASTED I HOPE. WELL I HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING.
Melanie's Point of View
I sat at the desk at the tattoo parlor twirling the pen between my fingers, my face resting on my hand staring blankly at the wall across from where I sat. I was bored out of my mind waiting for Corey to get here since he was the thing that lightened up my work and weirdly, I missed him. He really had gained a lot of my trust over the weekend, he proved to me he was worth it and that he was right about this whole wrestling thing, I had no reason to doubt him and that he could actually be the one for me. I don't know why I thought he could be violent after seeing the way he acted with Jack and the way he was all the way up to knowing, he was too sweet and he hadn't given me any reason to doubt him at all, I felt horrible for overreacting and felt that maybe I should apologize for that but think it doesn't matter.
"Working hard, or hardly working?" I heard Corey's voice say as I jumped a little as I looked up at him with a smile.
"Hardly working." I said as I stood up and walked around to meet him on the other side of the glass containers hugging him and giving him a kiss. "I missed you."
"It was only a few hours."
"I know…but I need to apologize to you."
"For what? What did you do?" He asked as I let out a sigh.
"For not trusting you, believing you and doubted you on this whole being violent thing." I said honestly as my finger nervously twirled around the shirt on his chest.
"It's nothing to apologize about sweetie." Corey said with a chuckle as I felt him kissing at my forehead, "But I'm late to work and have a client waiting I presume."
"Yeah, they are already seated in your booth." I said as he smirked giving me another kiss as I headed back to my desk where I sat back down and actually began to do work this time around now that Corey was here. I popped up the schedule of appointments knowing that one should be walking in at any given minute for Kevin, right when I thought that I heard the door open and I presumed it was just who I thought it was, the client. "Kevin, your client is here." I said loud enough hoping for Kevin to hear me as I didn't even glance away from my computer screen to acknowledge the client.
"Why hello Melanie, long time no see…you didn't run away on me now did you?" I heard a familiar voice say as I finally looked up seeing Kevin already leaning against the glass counter causing me to jump up from my chair causing it to be knocked over and my hand smacking for the bat that Kevin kept here but my hands failed to find it. "Trying to find the little baseball bat, that isn't going to scare me pretty thing…come on home with me and no one will get hurt."
"You are right about one thing Alex, no one will get hurt if you leave." Corey said, I was not expecting him to be appearing in the door way and Kevin was already very close to Alex in looks to escort him off the premise.
"Corey, not now." Kevin said, "Come on Alex scat before the cops are called and anyone does something they will regret." Kevin said when he glared to Corey then to me as I was reaching for my cell phone.
"Oh mister bad boy, trying to play mister protective again…what are you going to do this time? I know you aren't going to beat me up again, at least not in front of the lady." Alex said.
"Again? What does he mean by again?" I asked stepping forward before I stepped back when Alex looked at me.
"He didn't tell you? You see this scar? Yeah, last time I came in here this thug gave me a nice little beating." Alex said as I looked to Corey.
"Did you really Corey?" I asked as Corey wasn't even looking at me when Kevin gripped Alex by the bicep trying to drag him outside but he wasn't budging.
"You're about to get another one from me if you don't leave right now." Kevin mumbled under his breath.
"Ha, like you will even lay a finger on me. Out of all the years I have come in here, you haven't even came off as violent…I am afraid of your newbie than I am of you old fart." Alex said with another chuckle when out of nowhere Corey laid a punch right across Alex's mouth causing me to jump covering my lips.
"Why'd you do that?" Kevin asked smacking at Corey.
"He deserved it, leave before I make you leave." Corey groaned out in this evil tone, a side that I had never seen of Corey, not even in the wrestling ring. Alex just let out this evil laugh, much of what reminded me of what Heath Ledger's Joker would do before he stumbled back rubbing at his mouth that had a slight hint of blood coming out and tears were already threatening to come out of my eyes as Corey turned to me. "Sorry Melanie…" He said as his features tended to become softer as he walked towards me with his arms extended.
"No…get away from me!" I said walking as fast as I could around the desk trying to stay away from him as the best as I could. "I'm going home." I said as I stormed past Kevin.
"You can't go out there alone, Alex could still be out there." Kevin said.
"I'll take my chances, either way I'll be with a violent asshole." I said as I wiped at my eyes going outside bee-lining to my car and getting in as quickly as I could so I could lock it behind me in hopes to cut any chances of Alex attacking or approaching me outside the shop. I smacked at the steering wheel angrily as I burst into tears angry with myself for believing Corey and letting this happen again to myself. I tried to calm myself down enough to start the car and drive the short distance to the house I lived at, I headed straight inside and up to my room without saying a peep to Anita nor Jack. I climbed into bed curling into the fetal position where I just burst into tears more than I already did earlier, it seemed like hours had went by before I heard a knock at the door and I yelled for them to go away and to leave me alone. I had never felt so unsecure before, fearful of being here because with Corey still being such a good friend of Kevin's I knew that I won't be ever truly away from him and hated myself for even believing I could trust him in this whole 'I'm not violent' thing. I got up from my bed grabbing the bat from my closet moving it to lay beside my bed on the ground to make myself feel more secure, I don't know what I expected to happen but I wanted to be prepared. The next day had come and gone, I refused to go to work because I didn't want to be near Corey, I had pretty much secluded and isolated myself into my room not wanting to even bother, I was just a big bundle of feelings and bad thoughts about this whole thing, mainly hatred towards myself and him. What made it worse was that I couldn't even find my sketch pad to draw out my feelings and to pull myself away from reality which really made me more frustrated and angry because it really made me drown more in my sorrows. The next night I heard a knock at the door causing me to jump and messing up one of the sketches I was currently working on, which I delighted to finally find the sketch book in the most obvious spot, as I looked to the door.
"Melanie, its Anita…dinner is ready if you want to come join us…it's your favorite, hamburgers and macaroni and cheese." Anita said friendly through the door.
"I'll be right down." I said back as I stood up putting my sketch pad aside to return to after I had gone down to at least show my face to the family. As I began the venture down the stairs, I had stopped about 5 steps up from the main floor when I had looked out seeing Corey standing there with Jack over his shoulder hearing Jack's tiny laugh and I was trying my best to fight back a smile at the sight because for some odd reason Corey always made Jack happy. Corey looked over at me, for once we had seen each other face to face and made eye contact since I stormed out that night he got physical with my ex. Corey put Jack down onto his feet and Jack turned to look at the taller man.
"Uncle Corey, back up!" Jack asked with a chuckle and smile.
"Maybe after dinner, go wash up." Corey said as Jack nodded as he ran off towards the downstairs bathroom as I began to step up the stairs backwards which was harder than I thought it would be so I turned around and bolted, I don't know what I was thinking because he is an athlete for Christ sakes so he probably could run laps around me if he really wanted to. I ran into my room slamming the door shut locking it as I reached for my bat on the ground bedside pulling it up and dragging it with me as I jumped over my bed staring at my door. I heard a knock at the door causing me to jump each time and swallowing balls of nerves each time knowing that it had to be Corey on the other side.
"Melanie, its Kevin…open up, I got you your plate of food since you obviously aren't coming down…please?" Kevin said, I knew his voice and wasn't sure if I trusted him or not.
"How do I know you aren't trying to trick me to open the door to let Corey in?" I asked.
"What? Corey isn't even here….are you seeing things? Maybe you just had a bad dream, I'm just going to set this plate onto the ground for you and I'm going to head downstairs so I can eat because I'm starving." Kevin said muffled from the door between us as I heard the footsteps down the stairs in the distance as I slowly slid back over my bed with bat still in tow as I stood behind the door as I slowly unlocked it and began to slowly move it back from the frame. Before I could peek around the door I felt the door being pushed against me and Corey's big frame sliding through causing me to jump back in a major way and practically doing a baseball slide over my bed moving my bat to a swinging position. Corey shut the door behind him locking it as well as I got even more nervous with the door now being locked and shut.
"You know they can hear me screaming downstairs right? I can jump out this window as well…" I said as I had the bat pointed at him ready to take a swing at any moment, Corey moved his arms to a surrender pose as I was talking.
"I'm not going to hurt you, I promise…I just want to talk and show you something."
"Show me something? What are you even talking about?" I asked confused as he smirked as he pulled his shirt off to expose his upper body and he turned around so I can see the freshly tattooed design on the back of his one sleeved out arm and I had recognized that as my design.
"Do you recognize that?" He asked as he looked over his shoulder at me as I dropped the bat and slowly crawled onto the bed towards him.
"When did you get that done?" I asked as I reached out touching the raw skin.
"Last night, Kevin kind of stole your sketch pad for me."
"That's where it went….why did you do this?" I asked curiously as I looked up to him as he turned around quickly startling me as I jumped back some swinging the bat with me.
"Whoa, careful with that bat…"
"Sorry…" I said dropping the bat as he smiled.
"You shouldn't be apologizing, I'm the one that got you all running scared…I'm sorry for the way I acted…I was just beyond fuming mad at him…I have so much bottled anger towards him for what he did to the girl I love that all I could think about was punching the living crap out of him for doing what he did…I know that doesn't make things right and didn't impress you any, it just made you even more angry and scared of me, that wasn't my intentions…I just want you to know that I want to protect you not hurt you, I got this tattoo that YOU drew because it will forever remind me of you. I know that I love you, regardless of what happens between us that I know that I will never find a girl like you and I will forever have a piece of you with me." He said as that caused tears coming to my eyes for a whole different reason.
"No one has ever done something that stupid nor sweet for me." I said as I wiped at my eyes as he chuckled.
"Well, you've met the stupidest sweet person there is." Corey said with a smile and chuckle, "What do you say?" He asked as he pulled his shirt over his head and fixed the beanie on his head.
"I say you are stupid for getting that done, Kevin did a horrible job at sketching it out to put it on your arm and that we are cool…but I swear if you ever, ever, ever try to put a finger on me, your face will meet mister bat." I said sternly as much as I could as he chuckled.
"Seems like a fair deal." He said with a smile as he wrapped his arms around me pulling me close to him which I enjoyed as I wrapped my arms around his neck.
"What were those three words again?" I asked with a sly smirk.
"I love you." He said with a smile and I smiled back wider than before.
"I love you too." I said as he broke the distance giving me a kiss.