Hello! Ooh late update I know (well at least for me it's late), sorry, though I doubt someone is really waiting for it? Anyway! So this is chapter 4!
I don't have much to say here today, just that I hope you'll like it and please I would really appreciate some feedback because right now I feel like walking blindfolded into a complete black out!
Enjoy!
Melody - x.
Chapter 4
"Happy birthday sweetheart!" a woman shouted, bursting into the room.
A young girl jumped, surprised, as she was asleep.
She sat up, her hair cut to her neck and messy.
"Mum it's…" she started, in protestation, but then she sighed and smiled. "Thank you."
She gave a hug to her mother before she left the room. Once alone, she looked at herself in the mirror: red, messy hair, green blue-shaded eyes, pale skin. Just a normal girl.
Today was her birthday, she was turning twenty one and everybody yet was sending text messages to her saying "hey big girl now! You're an adult! We'll be able to go have some beer now!"
She smiled a bit and threw her phone on her bed, not caring much to "have some beer". She got herself ready and went downstairs to be welcomed by her father and a yummy breakfast. The afternoon was passed making a cake with her mother and her little cousins when around 3pm a headache struck her. She went upstairs to have some medicine: this headache was not going to spoil her birthday! She swallowed the pill and passing her room she saw her phone's LED light flashing. She took the phone, looking she had many missed calls from a number she didn't know.
Shrugging, she slipped it into her pocket and returned downstairs.
It's been a little bit more than a month since she met the Doctor, and she never spoke a word of it. Not even to her friend, Jaz, who was a Whovian too. He still hadn't come back and she started to wonder if he will: after all they didn't know when her gen-lock would unlock, it could take years. She should have asked for a way to keep in touch with him.
As she helped her cousins put the icing on the cake, the doorbell rang. Her mother went to open the door.
"Might be Gran" Melody thought.
"Melody!" her mother's voice called.
"Yeah coming!"
She walked towards the entry, licking the icing off her finger and froze when her eyes laid upon the person standing on the doorstep.
"This young man says he's a friend of yours" the voice of her mother echoed, as if she were far, far away.
He came back! The Doctor came back! He was there, on her doorstep!
"I think I've already seen you somewhere, haven't I?" said her mother to him, snapping her back to reality.
"Yeah he's one of my friends, er his name is… hum…"
She didn't know what to answer, giving a confused look at the Doctor.
"Matt!" he cut in. "Matt Smith! Nice to meet you!"
He gave air kisses to her mother and stepped inside, smiling at Melody.
"Happy birthday!" he exclaimed before hugging her. "You ok?" he whispered into her ear.
His question struck her: he was worried about her. She nodded and he let go of her, greeting the rest of her family, except the children who were now playing in the back garden.
She tried to keep him out of trouble, not wanting her family to think he was a weird one, so remembering the episode "The Lodger" where he proved to be a good cook, she took him with her into the kitchen.
"Don't worry mum, just… go have a seat and rest for a bit, he's a good cook, we're going to finish this quickly. Oh and turn the telly on, Jamie and Nina want to watch something - didn't hear what though." Melody said before returning to her cake.
"They're nice people." said The Doctor
"Yes, they are." answered the red haired girl, smiling softly.
"I tried to call you but I think I got the wrong number, you never answered."
"That was you! Sorry, just missed the calls and didn't recognize the number."
He nodded while pouring some flour into a bowl. He was making scones.
He looked at her from the corner of his eye: she seemed normal, nothing new.
Children burst into the living room, laughing, on the point of watching the telly, not noticing the man with a bow tie in the kitchen.
Melody and the Doctor could hear them from the kitchen asking their aunt for something.
"Did you notice anything special lately?" he asked.
"Nope, everything is normal." she smiled. Then she stopped, and turned to face him, a suspicious look on her face. "Why?"
"Nothing! Let's enjoy the day!" he exclaimed playfully.
"I knew I've seen him somewhere!" a voice exclaimed.
"See! I was right!"
Then there was a confused noise before her whole family ran into the kitchen. Melody and the Doctor froze.
"Oh my God it's Matt Smith! Mum! Dad! It's Matt Smith! He plays the Doctor!" cried Jamie.
"And he's the friend of cousin Melody! How cool is that!" Nina exclaimed.
They looked at each other.
"Is he your boyfriend?" asked the little girl.
"...Yeah it's him and erm no he's not my boyfriend, just a friend that's all. And keep it shut please, nobody has to know he's here ok? Just between us!"
Everybody nodded.
Few hours later, as the night had fallen, they were all sitting around the table, singing 'happy birthday' to Melody.
She smiled shyly as she waited for them to end the song so she could blow the candles. As they ended, the Doctor who was next to her spoke up:
"Make a wish!" and he gave her a knowing wink.
She thought of a wish and blew out the candles.
Then she opened the presents her family had given her, thanking everybody.
"Didn't you bring anything? What kind of friend are you?" Nina asked the Doctor.
Everybody turned around, looking at him.
"Hum, well, a present, of course." he said, embarrassed. "My present... is to make her wish come true!"
Her family smiled: that was cute.
"But that's impossible, if she says it to you then it can't come true, and if she doesn't tell you, how would you know?" continued the girl.
"I'm magic!" he said simply. "Plus I already know her wish - and by the way it's yes Melody."
"Really? Can I?" Melody said, facing him, full of hope.
"Of course! Now, you're all very nice but do you mind if I fulfil her wish? She wants to travel, so off we go!"
Melody kissed her family and promised to call them. Then she turned away, the Doctor's arm around her shoulders, and waved one last time before turning the corner of the street.
There the TARDIS was waiting.
"Ready?" the Doctor asked.
"Yeah!"
He held his hand before him and snapped his fingers: the door opened and they stepped inside.
More DoctorxMelody in the next chapter! Share your thoughts on the story with me! :)