Chapter 2
It was Friday night and Sebastian was just tidying up when he heard a knock at the door. He answered wiping his hand on the towel and shutting the door so Ana would stay in the sitting room. He opened the door to find Melody standing on the door step, she looked sad and was holding a small bag he knew from previous experience that contained her teddy.
"Melody?! I thought you were with your father?" He exclaimed
"Pa says I could stay here tonight, and Dad said I could if Pa agreed" Mel said
"Your Dad's not here at the moment, do you want to come in. I'll shortly be collecting him from the station. You can come and we can ask Dad about it." Sebastian suggested
"Why don't you want me? No one wants me!" Melody exclaimed dramatically
"Mel, of course you are always welcome here, I am just a bit surprised." Sebastian covered with a smile. Melody hesitantly crept in and followed Sebastian to the lounge, scooping up Ana in the process, before sitting on the sofa away from Sebastian. It was the one thing Sebastian always noticed Melody would never sit next to him unless Blaine was on her other side or between them, he just put it down to shyness.
"So Melody, hows school going?" Sebastian thought he should at least attempt to make conversation with Blaine's daughter.
"It's OK. I liked it better when Marco was there but he moved because his Mum and Dad were always fighting" She answered sadly
"Hows the work? Do you find it hard?" Sebastian continued to question
"No Dad teaches me stuff before others so when I do it its easier" Mel exclaimed calmly
"That's good. Your Dad was very clever at school" Sebastian said with a fond smile
"I know. Pa's clever too or he used to be. He doesn't help me with school any more. He spends all his time with Mario or working. Did you know...he forgot to pack my lunch yesterday?" Mel asked with big eyes
"Is it only the once?" Sebastian for some reason questioned
"No his done it 2 times this week and he was late getting me to school yesterday and last night he didn't cook me dinner, so I made toast with jam instead." Mel answered matter of factly.
"I bet that was yummy instead of whatever your pa would have cooked"
"Can we get Dad now?" Mel asked obviously bored with the conversation
"Yes alright. We may get stuck in traffic anyway" Sebastian said putting on his coat
They left and Sebastian drove through traffic, Melody sitting quietly in the back. They arrived at the station about 5 minutes early, so Sebastian parked in one of the free 20 minute bays and waited for Blaine. Blaine came out the station 10 minutes later smiling when he saw Sebastian and climbed in
"Hi love" He said and gently kissed Sebastian "Mel? What a surprise" he said opening the door to kiss his daughter
"Dad can I stay with you tonight" Mel asked without ceremony
"Mel I thought it was Pa's weekend?" Blaine questioned quietly as Sebastian started to drive
"Pa doesn't want me" Mel said looking at Blaine with big eyes
"Why would you say that Mel? He works hard all week. He loves the weekends to play with you"
"He doesn't." Mel argued "Can I stay?"
"First of all lets get some dinner, then talk when we get home OK." Blaine attempted to buy some time
"Your being mean" Mel said in a sulky voice
"Oh Mel, don't be like that. What do you want for dinner?" Blaine said not wanting to deal with an upset child after the long day
"I don't want anything! I want someone who listens" Mel exclaimed loudly
"Mel I am listening, I promise sweetheart but your Dad is hungry. We will eat then you can tell me why you don't think pa loves you, and I will try and help." Blaine compromised
"OK Dad. Chicken Nuggets please" Mel asked
"OK" Sebastian stopped and Blaine collected the food before returning to the car and returning home. Once they were home Blaine asked Mel to go wash up.
"Bas..."
"If she needs to, she can stay" Sebastian answered
"I am sorry, this was meant to be our weekend" Blaine apologised
"Look Blaine, something is bothering her. She would never have normally spoken like that to you. Maybe if she can stay and you can talk to her"
"Will you still stay?" Blaine asked quietly
"As long as Mel's OK" Sebastian compromised
"Thanks Bas. I love you" Blaine gently kissed him
"Love you killer" Was the reapply
Mel came down for dinner and sat at the table. They started to eat and Blaine started to try and find out more information from Mel.
"Who dropped you off here Mel?" Blaine asked quietly
"I got a taxi, Pa gave the taxi driver some money" Mel supplied
"OK, so he knows your here?" Blaine just wanted to reassure himself as he still found it strange Kurt had allowed Mel to spend the weekend with him
"He does. He said I can do what I want as long as I am quiet"
"Right...so why do you think Pa doesn't love you?" Blaine started to bring up the conversation from earlier
"He hardly ever reads stories or tucks me in or kisses me goodnight. He is always with Mario and they make loud noises in Pa's bedroom and this one time I smelt something coming from Pa's room but when I talked, I was told it was a grown up thing and not to ask questions as I didn't understand it"
"Maybe his been busy with work and balancing everything. You know how stressed he can get?"
"Yeah but when Pa is stressed he gets angry and starts shouting but he doesn't any more, he just goes into his room" Mel tried to reason
"Pa loves you and I bet his just been caught up. Have you tried talking to him?"
"I have but he doesn't look at me, he looks around"
"Right. I am going to call him after dinner. I've spoken to Bas and his happy for you to stay tonight." Blaine said with a small sigh
"He doesn't even live here!" Mel exclaimed grumpily
"Mel. Please don't speak like that! It's rude" Blaine reprimanded
"Bas and I had plans tonight, but Bas has said he will cancel them so you can stay. Bas would still like to stay over, so he'll be staying too."
"But Dad...you'll leave me out too..."
"Mel" Sebastian interrupted "We are not planning to leave you out. I was going to ask you're dad if we could have a movie night..."
"Can we watch Frozen!" Mel asked
"If your dad is OK with a night in, then yeah" Sebastian said
Blaine met Sebastian's eyes over the table and smiled warmly. You would never imagine Sebastian would ever be like this, but he was. It just go to showed how people change as they grow.
"Maybe..." Blaine said a warning in his tone
"Sebastian. I know you don't live here but you can stay tonight if Dad lets you..." Mel offered
Blaine knew that was as close to an apology for her outburst that he would get when she was in this mood
"OK let me call you're pa just to double check..." Blaine went next door to make a call.
Ta Da! So next week conversation between Kurt and Blaine. How will it go? Will tempers fly? Will emotions soar? Will they just 'talk'? And how is the writing? Is it OK?
See you next week.
