Love Will Save You // Ryan Follese

Chapter 6: You're Running Circles in My Head

-Melanie-

*Two and a half months later*

Danielle and I were on the couch watching whatever shitty movies were on Lifetime just like every other day after work. The good thing about our job, aside from Eli being the best boss ever, is we work 7:30am to 12pm. And it's not that we don't like Lifetime, we just like to make fun of the acting, but we could go over that another time.

Danielle was laying down, her legs hanging over the armrest, and I was sitting on the seat beside her head. There was a knock on the door, and usually, Danielle was the first one calling it. I already knew why she didn't this time, because it was the same reason she hadn't been for the past two weeks. She'd always gotten her hopes up when she answered the door, thinking the band would be home early, but each time, it was never them, so she just gave up.

"You've really got to stop moping around," I said, standing up and walking over to the door. "They'll be back in-" I stopped when I opened it and grinned widely, "-right now."

"Ha, ha. Very funny. You're only saying that so I'll get up and be happy for a split second, only to find out Jamie isn't really standing there with some stupid grin on his face, just waiting for me to jump into his arms," she said, not bothering to look away from the TV.

"So that's completely out of the question then?" Jamie asked, stepping into the house. Danielle sat up slowly and turned her head toward the front door.

Her eyes were starting to get watery and she screamed, "Jamie!" before hopping off the couch and jumping into his arms.

Ryan walked toward me, wrapping his arms around my waist and kissing me. Had it not been the fact that I needed to breathe, I probably wouldn't have pulled away.

"What are you guys doing here?" I asked excitedly.

"The last few shows of the tour got cancelled because the headlining band had some personal things to take care of," Jamie said, still holding Danielle.

"So, about that deal we made about touring," Ryan said, looking at Danielle.

"What about it?" she mumbled into Jamie's shoulder.

"You can't mumble, this is exciting news!"

She moved her head slightly so her voice wasn't so muffled this time, "You're going to have to work with this then, because I'm not moving from this spot anytime soon."

Jamie chuckled and hugged her tighter as Ryan continued, "We got an offer to go on tour in the U.K. and we're doing it, and since you girls promised, you're coming with us."

"Seriously?" Danielle asked, finally lifting herself off of Jamie.

"Seriously," Ryan repeated.

"Whoa," I said, "Slow down. Part of the deal was us having enough notice. When does the tour start?"

"Next month," Ryan replied.

"Shit," I mumbled. "Um, I'll be right back." I walked upstairs to my room and sat down on my bed, running my hands through my hair.

-Ryan-

I watched as Melanie went up the stairs. I looked at Danielle, but she had her eyes on the hallway Mel just walked down. She didn't even look at me, but I could tell she knew what I was thinking when she started talking.

"When Mel and I were seniors, we had this chance to go to Spain with our Spanish class," she explained, "Everything was packed and ready and we met our class at the airport. We got on the plane, and everything was fine until we were about to land." She turned to face me, "Only the back two tires came out. The front one got stuck, and we hit the runway. We luckily weren't going fast enough to do any major damage and no one was killed. The worst injury was a guy having to get stitches in his forehead from hitting the window when we landed. They wouldn't tell us how or why it happened. She doesn't like to bring it up, but I know she's still terrified of it."