Later

"Natalia, who was the guy who hurt Melly?" Bucky asked as they were studying in the cafeteria.

She sighed, "Which one?"

"What do you mean?"

"The one she met after she moved or the guy who stole her heart that she met in she was in Middle School?" She replied.

Bucky was caught off guard, "She never told Steve and I about them. We had a feeling she was being bullied but we didn't know how bad it was."

"Bucky, Melly didn't have very many friends she was outnumbered by boys. All the girls at her school couldn't relate to her, she was totally different than her classmates. Most of her friends were in grades under hers. A good sum of older kids weren't the best influence either... She was stuck with bad kids no matter where she was she was a target by them no matter what age she was."

"Why didn't she tell us the last time she was here?"

"She didn't want to tell you guys thinking you might not want to be friends with her anymore. James, now that I have a good idea of her character she'd rather talk about the positives than the negatives."

"I never thought of that..."

"Look I know I shouldn't be talking about what I read in her journal or diary but you asked I imagine Melly would want us to keep it to ourselves."

"I know Fury told me to avoid her, but I want to say I'm sorry and give the girl a hug and that she's far more stronger than I am."

'More stronger than you know, Bucky...' Thought Natasha as she remembered two parts that she decided to keep to herself and for Melly's sake as well.

Hours later at my dorm room.

"Melly are you here?" knocked Natasha on my door.

I opened it, "It's just me for right now," I spoke as I let her in.

"I'm sorry I took your Diary Melly..."

"How far did you get?" I said closing the door and was thankful the window was locked too.

"Everything..." She stopped as she gave me a hug as she whispered in my ear, "I'm glad you chose life rather than death, when you were at your lowest times."

I began to cry, as I returned the hug, "Thanks Natasha, I hope what you read you can keep that to yourself, please?"

"If you need someone to talk to, we're here to talk with you ok?"

"I really don't feel comfortable talking about it to anyone but I trust you." I said as I stopped hugging her and used my sleeve to dry my tears off.

"Melly, I was just talking with Bucky for a study date and honestly, mentally you are the strongest of us all."

"I am?"

"Yeah," Natasha said, "Even stronger than Dr. Pym."

"Ah... Wow that's a... Mind blowing... Normally I don't like being compared to others but ah I guess that puts me at ease."

"But why did you fall for for those guys?"

"Zavier... I didn't fall for him, I just wanted a friend he wanted something else as he was a plain old creep for a grade 2 kid. Sure I was bullied by the kids over the years but it wasn't until Middle school when it was the worst ever. Kris well I knew he wasn't perfect I just wanted him to see the good in him that he tried to portray himself to me as. I was blinded by his lies and charms... Is it wrong to see good in people when they clearly don't see it?"

"No I don't think so, Melly. But you already learned you can't change people they need to change themselves."

"Yeah well things got worse after that, The School started as a Junior high then the government decided to merge schools that had elementary up to junior high then separate them into separate schools... All because of a damn boy my life got bad..."

"Melly, you're a good person plus you're different."

"I know, Natasha," I grumbled, "is popularity worth it?"

"Popular it's just a word. It's not like you're famous... Unlike Steve and Tony."

Finally I laughed, "I'd be first in line if they get into a boxing match."

"Me too."

"Are you and Bucky a thing?"

"He does flirt with me a lot, we do have some memories in the Red Room together."

"You two do look cute together."

"We do not."

I laughed, "He and I do have a thing for redheads but I never really got far with one."

"What about you?"

"I'm not ready for a boyfriend yet." I spoke, "Tash it's getting late, I still have some homework to work on."

"See you tomorrow then."

Two Weeks later

My Uncle Fred, Aunt Janice and my Cousin Rick were coming up to visit today as I was excited about seeing them. The gang had went off on missions so the only people were here were Zemo, Taskmaster, and Amora... I avoided them all day as my extended family arrived.

"Hey Mel," said Cousin Rick as I hugged him.

"Been a very long time eh?" I said as I looked at him... Something wasn't quite right, last time I saw him he was tall and a bit overweight last summer... now? He was still tall but buffed up. I dismissed the thought as we hung out.

"How about we go to Central park?" said Uncle Fred... 'Wait what's with his accent?' I thought as I looked at him, my Uncle was originally from Pennsylvania and his accent didn't sound the same as I remembered... more Western? As in the wild west, cowboy movies.

"Ah sure Uncle Fred." I spoke, "Uncle are you feeling ok you're voice seems a little off?"

"He has a bit of a cold, Melanie." said Aunt Janice... Ok at least her voice seemed fine.

"Alrighty." I spoke, "It's still a bit of a walk from here."

After a few blocks of walking I could feel my necklace getting loose... And that Bad feeling that these people with me wasn't my family members from Florida... The last time I felt my necklace loosen was when I was scared... My cousin Bernie found it as it glowed when I was nearby... Like a compass... 'Keep it together Melly,' I told myself.

"Oh look over there Melanie." said Rick. I looked to where he was pointing, I saw a squad of Hydra guys uniform... Responding fast I got the hell out of there. I didn't have a fighting chance when I was hit by a dart... Before I passed out I took off my necklace as I hid it under a dumpster... then everything went black from there.