A/N: I decided that this needed to be updated. Really, really needed to be updated. This one is Melody's POV.

Disclaimer: I own Melody, Mandy, Carson, Amanda, Bethany, and Bryce. Long list right there… Everyone else is by MOA.

'How did you get here under my skin?
Swore that I'd never let you back in.
Should've known better than tryin' to let you go
'cause here we go go go again.
Hard as I try I know I can't quit,
Something about you is so addictive.
We're fallin' together,
You think that by now I'd know
'cause here we go go go again'
~'Here We Go Again', Demi Lovato

Like Last Time Around

"So how are you two doing?"

My head literally jolted up like I had been shocked with a thousand volts of electricity. My eyes were on the back of Kevin's head as his fingers froze on the keyboard he had been working at alongside of the twins. He said nothing. Needless to say, I kept my mouth shut for a few seconds.

It was such an innocent question. Bethany had no idea how she was pretty much stabbing me with a dagger and drowning Kevin in guilt with just those six words. Because we knew she didn't mean it in a literal sense. She didn't want me to go say, "Oh, we're good. Kevin and Carson got into a fight today and I was under the weather yesterday, but we're better now, no biggie." No, she wanted to know how we were doing. As in both of us. As in together. As in the two lovebirds they always knew.

I'm just going to say that the silence got awkward really fast. Kevin didn't keep typing so it really was that really quiet quiet moment.

"Alright," said Bryce after heaving a sigh and pushing off the wall he had been leaning against, "what did we miss?"

Kevin turned around in the chair, staring at me where I stood, lingering in the doorframe with one shoulder against the wood and my body practically at a forty-five degree angle with the floor. "That's a good question, Beth," Kevin said, his dark eyes glittering with untold words and hidden messages that I knew how to read. We had been together way too long... "How are we doin', Mel?"

Great. And he was leaving it up to me to decide what front that we were going to use as a cover. Yeah, he's an idiot. Not just becau- Oh, wait. It clicked in my head like someone had thrown a brick at my head. We both had different opinions on this back in Bellwood and he had known mine all along. Leaving it up to me meant he was doing things my way for once.

I pushed off the frame of the doorway with a little bit of fancy footwork and the toy that I like to call physics and pranced my way over to him. A thin smile raced across his lips, sitting there sweetly as I sat on his lap like we had before all the drama set in. And before he'd left us to die.

"We're fine," said Kevin, raking his thick fingers through my white and black hair. His eyes watched mine for a reaction, but I gave none.

"I was wondering why you guys were keeping your distance," said Amanda from the left side of Kevin once he turned around his chair to face the keyboard again. He let his fingers fly across the letters and numbers once more, the screen racing to keep up with his lightning fast pace. "I mean, you guys had all the puppy-love going last I checked and then now Melody was practically trying to keep as far away from you as possible. I just didn't want anything to be wrong."

"And I got your twin-telepathy call and decided to ask," chirped Bethany in that annoyingly sweet voice of hers.

Let's just say that I never really liked these two. Just my opinion, but they're a couple of morons when it comes to dealing with what Kevin and I deal with everyday. Drama. Knights. The usual stuff. Bombs. More than once, I have had to diffuse one... Kevin showed me how to do that.

"Nothin' to worry about," assured Kevin, taking one hand away from the keyboard and wrapping his deliciously muscular arm around my thin little waist as he pulled me a little tighter to him. "Mel and I are good." His other hand went to the mouse to keep working as he kept his arm around me.

This was what I liked about Kevin. He was able to lie convincingly and still get away with virtually anything. Of course, Carson and Mandy and I always knew when he was lying due to the fact that we had clearly lived with him for too long. And once or twice, he had been able to pull a fast one on us and actually get us to believe one of his lies. It was rare, but it did happen. And now I was wrapped in the middle of one. Not like I minded or anything...

"Back on topic," urged Bryce, coming from his side of the room and putting his hands on the back of Amanda's chair. "What do we have for surveillance?"

"Knights in subways," began Amanda.

"Knights in apartments," continued Bethany.

"Knight at bars."

"Knights in nightclubs."

"Knights stealing tech."

"Knights robbing banks."

"Knights are pretty much everywhere," concluded the two at the same time, voices chiming together.

I really, really felt compelled to hit them both. Really.

"It's like they've mass-produced," said Kevin, immediately taking his hand away from my lithe waist to get back to work on the keyboard. "Do we have any idea how they're getting so many people? Clones or rallies or kidnapping? Something crazy. It has to be."

Both brunette girls had their fingers flying across the keyboards that they sat at with Kevin in the middle of the two. "I got a list of missing people reported in the past two months," said Amanda, sliding her chair over to the printer that was on one side of the room. "And Beth just got us the list of pieces on cloning devices that can be found within a hundred miles of the city limits."

"I can get you any info on rallies, just say the word," said Bryce, having taken his hands off of Amanda's chair as she rolled away and was now working on another computer that was set aside for the sole purpose of social networking. He had to be kept in the loop.

"Word," Kevin said leaning back in the chair and once more holding me tightly.

Bryce was working as Amanda rolled her way back over towards where Kevin and I were curled up in the chair. "Here's your paperwork," she said, bright cheery smile making me want to hit her. "Now go run off and give Mandy a hug for me 'cause we love her and do something fun."

"All fun and no play makes for an unhappy day," Bethany chimed in on our left as Kevin politely nudged me off his lap with one hand. "So you guys go get it on or something, okay? You're, like, boring today."

Kevin looked at me before rising out of the chair right after I had. "We got work to do," he said, taking my hand in his as he gave a short wave to Bryce.

Bryce was already working, his contacts and sources bringing in intel of the rallies or group gatherings within Knight territory. He didn't even wave back.

"You guys get him home for me?" asked Kevin, looking to the twins who both nodded eagerly with the same pretty smiles that drove me insane. "Cool." In one hand, he held the papers Amanda had given him. In the other, he held my hand. Good day or bad day? I declared it a victorious day. Because even though it was a lie, I had Kevin again. That was all I ever wanted.

A/N: Hmm… I was hoping it'd be longer, but whatever. Reviews make me smile!

~Sky