Love Will Save You // Ryan Follese

Chapter 16: She Knows She's Hot, but That's All She's Got

-Melanie-

"Told you so," I sang after Danielle told me what happened between her and Jamie while we were in the restroom. She laughed and pushed my shoulder after drying off her hands. "I swear, Danielle. You're the only person I know who can manage to get chocolate everywhere but in her mouth and on her clothes," I giggled.

"Oh, shut up, Melanie. You do it too," she smiled.

"That was one time, and you scared me!"

She stuck her tongue out at me and we walked out of the bathroom and started walking down the small hallway back to the room everyone else was in. We stopped before we reached the doorway because we heard people talking.

"I thought you meant we were just taking a break, baby," we heard a girl say from inside the room.

Ryan's voice came next, "How the hell did you get 'We're just on a break' from 'I never want to see your cheating ass again'?"

"You weren't thinking straight, you were drunk. Just please, give us one more chance, Ry."

"Don't call me that, Morgan. You know just as well as I do that I wasn't drunk. I told you, I'm done with you."

"Morgan!" Danielle and I whispered to each other, wide-eyed.

I could tell Danielle suddenly got mad because she quickly rushed into the room. I followed behind her as she faked a smile.

"Morgan!" she squeaked.

"Um, who are you?" Morgan asked bitterly.

"Danielle. From high school, remember?"

"Uh, I don't think so."

"No, I know you remember. I think the words you used were 'jealous', 'loser', 'bitch'.. Oh, and then there's my personal favorite: 'slut'."

"Oh, yeah... Of course I remember you. I can see nothing's changed either," Morgan said plainly.

"Wait," Jamie started, but Danielle put her hand up to stop him.

"No. It's okay, Jaim. I've got this," she said, never taking her eyes off of Morgan. "Now, I'm gonna ask this question once and I expect an answer," Danielle addressed Morgan again, "What the fuck do you think you're doing here?"

"I think I'm here to get my boyfriend back," Morgan stated.

"Really? Funny, because I'm pretty sure he hasn't been your boyfriend for what, six and a half months now?"

"And how would you know that?"

"Honey, the Beautiful Freaks find out everything."

"So you're fans?" Morgan said, looking over Danielle's shoulder at me.

"That too," Danielle shrugged.

"Then how are you even in here?" By this time, Ryan had walked over to me and had his arms around me.

"Jamie and I are dating them, genius," Ryan said, rolling his eyes.

Morgan laughed and looked at me, then at Ryan, "Seriously?"

"Did you plan on your life ending earlier than you had expected it to?!" Danielle nearly yelled. Jamie already had his hands close to her waist, ready to grab her if she got too angry.

Morgan ignored Danielle and said, "That's what you go to after me? Are you kidding me?"

"Yeah. Yeah, you did," Danielle said, taking a step toward Morgan. Jamie grabbed her waist and held her to him. She turned her head quickly to look at him, "Damn it, Jamie! She deserves to be hit!"