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Chapter 16

The car ride was excruciatingly painful. Melina sat at the back, trying to avoid Mickie's questions. Occasionally, she would glance up at John, and see him staring back. On top of being painful, the ride home seemed extremely long to Melina. Strangely, she didn't remember it ever taking this long to get home from school. She suddenly felt the urge to look outside of the window. She immediately located a street sign, and saw unfamiliar words on it.

Written on the street sign in bold letters were the words Lincoln Road. "That's a two hour drive away from my house," she thought.

"Oh my God," gasped Mickie. "We're on a movie set."

Upon hearing that, Melina swiftly turned her head towards the window. Her eyes widened as she saw the sets, cameras, trailers, makeup artists, wardrobe stylists, the director, the producer, the stunt doubles, and her mother.

Victoria Perez, in all her glory, was idly chatting with the movie director. "Oh my God! That's Victoria Perez!" yelled Mike. "No way!" exclaimed John. He seemed to forget that they had met the night before.

Randy looked at Melina. She seemed to be turning green. He went over to her and tried to comfort her. "You know that you'd have to tell them about your mom sooner or later," he said.

"I know, but I just didn't think I'd have to tell them about it so soon," she said, resting her head on Randy's shoulder.

This movement did not go unnoticed by John. He looked at Melina with confusion written all over his face. "I thought she liked me," he thought, as he watched Randy give her a slight hug.

"Hey Randy," he called out. "Can you come over here for a sec?"

"Sure."

John led them behind a trailer, and shoved his hands into his pockets. "What's going on with you and Melina?" he asked.

"Nothing!" exclaimed Randy, throwing his hands up in the process. "She's your girl. You called dibs."

Hearing Randy say that instantly put John at ease. "Thanks man."

"No problem," said Randy patting John on the back. "I've got my eye on someone else."

…

The director came over to the group of kids and shook hands with all of them. "I bet you're all wondering why you're here," he said. "Miss Perez has personally invited all of you to this movie set. So, follow me and I'll direct you to her." Melina reluctantly followed. Her day was not going to go as she had planned.

The five friends entered Victoria's spacious trailer. She sat on a leather couch playing with a puppy. She didn't seem to hear them come in.

"Hi mom," said Melina, ignoring the confused looks of her friends. "MOM!" they exclaimed, simultaneously. At this point Victoria was standing up with her back against the chair. She shot Melina an apologetic smile and went on to greet her friends.

"Hi, I'm Victoria Perez; Melina's mother."

…

"I can't believe you did that!" yelled Melina. She and her mother had just returned home from the movie set. Her friends had all left her. They seemed all seemed very angry. "I can kiss our plans goodbye," she thought, as her mother slammed the door behind her.

"Don't you dare speak to me in such a tone, young lady," said Victoria. Melina looked at her mother in shock. Never had she ever heard her mother scream at her like that.

"I'm sorry," said an apologetic Melina.

Victoria looked at her daughter and felt her face immediately soften. "I'm sorry for screaming," she began. "It's just that you're in high school and I've realized that I've never met any of your friends."

Melina finally looked up at her mother. "But why'd you do it like that?" asked Melina. "If you'd have just given me a chance, I would have told them!" she said, her voice rising.

"I-," began Victoria. She was cut off by a knock on the door.

"I'll get it," said Melina.

She went to the door and opened it slowly. Standing on her front porch were John, Randy, Mike, and Mickie with gigantic smiles and grocery bags filled with chips. "We-," was all Mike could say before Melina shut the door and ran upstairs to her room.

"What's going on?" asked Victoria, from her seat on the couch.

"They're here!" yelled a frantic Melina. She had completely forgotten about the state she had left her room that morning. Before getting to work cleaning, Melina yelled downstairs to her mother, "Don't open the door yet!"