On my Block Fanfiction

Little broken fairytales

10 Years Earlier.

She keeps running, running running.  Not even trying to catch her breathe. Maybe if she's lucky, she might pass out before they ever find her.  Lying on the sidewalk, with spooky's baby growing inside her.
They'll kill her if they found out anyway.
"Stop seeing the  Santos, thats an order princess." 
"A little too late she wanted to say." They needed to warn her earlier, like four years. Like before this whole stupid thing happened in the first place.
She goes to the only person she can count on to keep her secret. 
She taps on his window, in a soft rythm like she always does, but this time isn't like always, this time is serious, like life and death.
Omg, Melanie its 3 in the morning, Mario says.  What is there a fire? Mario complains.
I'm pregnant she spits out, breathless, like the words alone steal the air from her.
Mario stares at her in stone silence.  Under the starless sky and the summer breeze, she feels like shes dying, and she wishers she were somewhere else, someone else.
Say something she says.
Whos it for? He ask. 
You already know the answer, she whispers. The tears flow one by one. Mario wipes them, then wipes his hand , like he's trying to get rid of the evidence.
"She climbs through the window and watches as he sits on his bed. She sits beside him, and for a while their both silent.
"Did you tell him,"? Mario ask.
"I can't".
Why?
"What would happen if I did. "
Mario doesn't answer until  the rooms too quiet again. "Are you going to keep it."
Melanie starts to cry again, and this time when she does, her body shakes  and she can't stop it. The world is spinning and she doesn't know what to do.
Mario wraps his arms around her , and he hugs her tight, and for a while, a long while, they sit there, waiting for the answer to fall in their lap.  
When it comes, its the early morning and the sun has risen"
Mario smiles at her, and she frowns back.
"I found a way to keep your baby" he says.
"Mario the prophets can't know , if they found out, they'd kill us.
"Not if the baby was a prophet, Mario whispers.
"But he isn't."
"But he could be Mario says. I have a friend on the inside. He's a prophet, but you  can trust him Melanie."
"You tell the prophets that your pregnant for my friend Thaddeus.   That it was an accident, that the babies a prophet. 100%. Tell them now, before you start to show. Before they ever suspect  spooky."
"They already think Spooky and I were too close.
"You should have let Spooky get you out from the beginning", Mario sighs
"He would have thought I betrayed him if he found out I was a prophet this whole time."
"Are you sure you don't  want to get rid of it."
"I'm sure, she whispers. I don't think I could live with myself if I did that."
"O.k  Mario says. If your sure we'll help you. But spooky can never find out."
"Eventually, maybe one day we can tell him" .
Mahlani whispers .
No, Mario says. This is forever. This keeps everyone safe.
"And if spooky ever finds out?"
"He won't" Mario whispers.

The memories come back flooding , and Mehlani can't breathe. Part of it is Spooky taking her breath away, literally. The anger flows through his body and he could kill her in a second , she can feel the strength in his hands , even though he's holding back , he's also trying to hurt her. It's Mario who pulls him off screaming.

"I made her do it".

Spooky turns on him, and he swings. The blood gushes from Mario's nose

"Fuck,"he screams.

"Get out of my restaurant" a voice from the back yells.

Gladly , spooky says

He turns on Mehlani. " I will never forgive you for this, I will never forgive you.

He storms out. Mario doesn't follow. He sits on one of the stools, his nose bloody. " that went a lot better than I thought, he jokes. Both of us are still alive.

Mahlani sits on the stool across from Mario and she cries . He grabs her hand and she sobs some more.

We were kids Mehlani. Baby we were kids, it's not your fault . He doesn't mean it.

It's a lie. Spooky means every word. He hates her. He put his hand around her throat, he wanted to kill her.
No, he means it, she whispers . He means every word.

She'd left him. She'd left him when he needed her the most , to hand his child off to one of there worst enemies.

This is my fault Mario says. He's trying to clean his nose with the napkins on the table. It's a mess.

It's is Mario's fault , but only a little. Giving the baby to the prophets was supposed to mean they would always know where he was. Thaddeus was supposed to give the baby to a couple who always wanted a child , a prophet. But after Thaddeus had shown up at the hospital to take the baby they'd never heard from him again. And by the time Mehalani had returned to freeridge Mario had already brought her way out.

"How'd you do it, mehalani whispers. The dots only just connecting, missing pieces falling into place.

How'd you buy my way out of the prophets . Tears flood her face again . How had she not seen it before.

"They were going to kill you" Mario says.

How

"I was a kid mehlani"
"Mario how?"
"You were next mehalani you were going to be next . "
"Say it"
I sold them the baby.
Mario doesn't look at her" I'm so sorry"
"You knew we wouldn't see him again didn't you?"
"I was a kid , it was a baby , I wanted to keep you safemehlani."  "They knew. They knew it was spookys baby . You were too close , we were all too close, Mario laughs ."
"So you told them you'd give them the Santos baby in exchange for my life."
"A life for a life," Mario whispers
Mehalan wants to scream, wants to throw stuff , wants to scratch Mario's face off.

She feels sick and she wants to throw up, but she doesn't.
"Mario she cries".
"Mario What did they do with the baby."
"I don't know."
"What do you mean you don't know, Thaddeus you never saw him again? "
" It doesn't matter Melahni that baby belongs to someone else now."
"Mario who?"
"All I know is that they wanted to turn a Santos into a prophet .  Raise him to hate the Santos . Use him as revenge , who knows where the kid is"
Mehlani pulls the picture out of her pocket.
"A women at a dinner part gave me this, said that he's my son."
How would she know Mario shrugs
"That's what I'm trying to figure out .