Jared's POV: What's the matter with me?
I've finally gotten Mel back. The love of my life, the light in my darkness, my Melanie, she's home but I'm not completely, happy?
No, I take that back. I am so very happy. In fact I'm elated and joyful and all of those other words for that nice feeling that we humans like to have, but I think something is missing. She's missing.
I mean she's still always around without a doubt, but I'm not seeing her expressions lifted towards me all of the time anymore. Melanie is like a fierce, sexy, dragon. Her smiles always contain a hint of playful sharpness, even when her eyes are filled with love.
Her face never made those expressions. When she looked at me, it was with a tenderness that I had never experienced in my life. Mel only gives Jamie those looks, even though I know she loves me like that. She's my vixen, but Wanda…She was like a puppy, or a lamb. She would never consider hurting a fly, while Mel wouldn't hesitate to lash out if she felt it was right.
The few times that we had come together, in those ways that made Mel cringe, they were intense, but like lighting the little thread that leads to a firework. With Mel, it is explosives and fire everywhere. She does things, like…nipping me, which Wanda would never have thought of doing, even in that terrible moment where we thought Mel was gone.
I look at her face sometimes, and search, selfishly, for the warmth that she used to give me in that little pained way of hers. I see O'Shea with his arm around her, and it's different from when he had his hands on Mel's body. That I couldn't stand. But seeing her so comfortably nestled there, it makes me a little jealous. I still want her to love me the most.
Maybe that seems selfish of me, but hey, I'm only human.