Chapter 5

"Just because you're sick and weak doesn't mean you can have people treat you like a toy! You should learn to stand up for yourself, you can't always be protected!"

Those words hit me hard and I began to cry, and said, "Are those words coming from the one who wanted to protect me?"

He said nothing, but when he was about to my hand had already met his face. I then turned around and headed back to my room, the tears still spilling out. I locked myself in my room and I lay down on the bed, still crying. When I had clamed down Sarah came in with my medicine.

"What happened?" She asked sitting down next to me.

"Nothing."

She didn't ask anything more and left. I decided to take a bath and when I came out of the bathroom there was something on my bed. It was a bouquet or roses, chocolates, and a card, it was all from Nick. I opened it a read the words carefully.

Hello beautiful
how's it going?
I hear it's difficult what you're undergoing
I've been missing you
its true...

Hello beautiful
it's been a long time
since I've seen your smile
when I committed that crime
I've been missing you
it's true

But tonight
I'm gonna fly
Yeah tonight
I'm gonna fly
'Cause I could go across the world,
See everything
And never be satisfied
If I couldn't see those eyes

I began to cry and then noticed there was something else written at the bottom of the page.

It read:

Melanie, someday, after your surgery's over and you're better, let's go somewhere far away. I'll take you anywhere you want to see the sunset, just the two of us.

I smiled and then looked up to see Nick standing on the door. He didn't come in, so I walked slowly up to him.

"Nick? Why did you do this?"

"Because I couldn't stand seeing you in so much sorrow." He said and then looked away from me. "Sorry, Melanie. I didn't mean to say that."

"It's ok, I was lying too. Even if Sarah didn't want me to talk to you, I would've. I still wanted to be your friend."

"That's a relief. I thought you never going to talk to me again." I began to laugh and then he joined in.

"Come in." I said grabbing his hand and pulling him in.

I sat on my bed and he came and sat down next to me. I then took a deep breath, got myself closer to him, and whispered in his ear.

"You're still not forgiven."

"What?! Why?!"

"If you want to be forgiven that badly there's only one thing you can do." I said.

Nick was now outside my room playing with his cell phone when Sarah passed by.

"What are you doing?" She asked.

"Deleting some pictures."

"Why?"

"Melanie told me to. She'll forgive me if I delete all the ones I have with Miley."

"That's just like her. She never let's me off the hook that easy, either. I wonder what you did… Anyway, she's calling for you."

"Me? Ok." He said, as he got up and walked to my room. He came to my room and knocked on the door. I allowed him in and we sat down to talk.

"Nick, in the letter you gave me, when you wrote that you'd take me anywhere I want, did you mean that?" I asked.

"Yeah. I'll take you anywhere you want to go. We can go to the ocean in the summer."

"The ocean?"

"Yeah, you've never seen it?" He asked, surprised.

"I've seen pictures, but no, not in person."

"Then I'll take you there. Everyone always has fun in the beach." He informed me.

"I want to go. Take me there!" I said happily.

"Sure."

"I remember Sam promised me the same thing, years ago."

"Is Sam your boyfriend?" He asked.

"No, we're just friends now… I got really lonely when he left, but now I have you!" I said, smiling at him.

Later that day while I was walking around I saw something extremely unexpected. 'Speak of the Devil and he appears.' Sam was there talking to Sarah! I made sure they couldn't see me and I went back to my room. A few minutes later there was knock on the door.

"Come in." I said. The door opened and it was Sam. He hadn't changed a bit.

"Surprise!" He said.

"Sam!" I said, trying to act surprised.

"You weren't expecting me, were you?"

"Not at all…"

"Sarah told me you've made a friend, I'm proud of you. Who is it?" He asked.

"Nick, his name is Nick.

"So it's guy, huh?" I didn't say anything.

"I've really missed you, Mel. I'm sorry I haven't come in a while, I've been very, very busy."

"With what?" I asked.

"School, soccer, band practice, all those stuff."

"Waow…"

"Where's this Nick guy? I want to meet him." He said.

"He should be here in a few minutes. He said he was going to get something to eat."

As we waited Sam and I caught up with each other, it was nice to see him again. Then, Nick came in.

"Hi, Nick." I said. "This is Sam, Sam this is Nick."

Both boys shook hands and glared at each other. The rest of the day was pretty good. We talked about everything and had a few laughs as well. I was glad that they were getting along, or so I thought.

"Yo, Nick? Can I talk to you for a sec?" Asked Sam.

"Sure." Said Nick and they both walked out to the garden, but fistr they made sure there was no one there. "What's up?"

"I bet its fun." Said Sam.

"What?"

"The look on your faces, you seem like you have so much fun you can't help it. Melanie is a hottie after all." Nick growled at his comment, but said nothing. "It must be fun to spend so much time with a cute girl. You must feel on top of the world. I should know, I was in the same position."

"Getting jealous, are you?" Said Nick, angrily

"You have no idea, do you?"

"I think I do. You obviously don't like me because I'm always with her." Sam ten punched Nick in the face. "What the hell was that for?!"

"You really have no idea!"

"I'm telling you I do!" Sam punched him again in his face, this time causing his nose to bleed.

"You piece of shit! How can you be so optimistic?! Nothing will turn out the way you want it to! Friendship won't cure her illness or laughing! Hope is nothing but sentimental bullshit!" Yelled Sam. "She's gonna die and you can't change that." He added and walked back inside.

Nick just sat down and tried to fin his place. All he wanted was to make me happy, he was trying his hardest. Nick didn't came back to my room; I was reading when Sam came back in.

"There you are, where's Nick?" I asked.

"He said he had to leave, family emergency." Lied Sam.

"Oh, ok. Are you staying or do you have to leave too?"

"I better leave; mom doesn't know I'm here. I'll stop by tomorrow." He said and walked towards the door. "Later, Mel."

"Yeah…"

This is a song by the Jonas Brother named Hello Beautiful; I just changed the words to fit the story. Please Review!!!!