Beyond The Pages

~Chapter 8~

*Chapter 8*
What Is My Life Turning Into

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Don't compare yourself to others. They aren't you.
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Melody's POV:

Sitting in my usual booth in the cafe while reading I feel a stare on me and look up and I am met with dark hazel eyes staring deeply at me as if wanting to see inside my soul.

I sigh and call him out, he is startled for a while and then shakes his head and looks at me. "What can I do for you" I ask as politely as I can even though am sure it came out with a little sass and an eye roll. Am sure your wondering why would you roll your eye at someone you may have a crush on, key word being may.

"My sister wants something to eat from this place and since I have never been here I was wondering if you could help me" he says and sits at the other end of the booth.

I think about it for a while and "get her the chocolate cake, it's my favourite" I say a little enthusiastically. He nods his head and goes to get it. After a while he comes back and sits down.

"What book are you reading" he asked looking curious, am taken aback by his question but my lips have a mind of their own so they start answering before I can do anything "it's about a secretary lady, Amelia Jones, who has been crushing on her CEO, Zack Williams, since the first day she came to the office but the CEO doesn't work at that office but the head one even though that one is pretty big itself. So he comes to visit after 8 months of her being hired and immediately takes a liking to her.

He asks the head of this division office to transfer her to be his PA clearly impressed with her work. Weeks later she is transferred and he just came back from a trip and looks for the slightest of opportunities to talk to her, be near her. So she notices this after a while and confronts him about it. But instead of giving her an answer he asks her out to dinner and she agrees."

I look up knowing I am rambling and expect to see a bored and sleepy look on his face but instead am met with an amused one which can't be seen except you thoroughly look at him. I smile at him and he points at the book urging me to continue and so I do.

"After their dinner they are both a little tipsy. They go to his penthouse and spend the night together. In the morning she wakes up and immediately realizes what happened and packs her things and leave. In the office he asks her why she left and she said it is because she didn't want to face him in the morning. He looks disappointed and she notices then explains to him that she doesn't sleep with a guy after their first date and he smiles hearing her words.

A month later she has morning sickness, nausea and vomits, especially whenever she sees seafood. She starts suspecting something and remembers she hasn't went to renew her birth control since when she was transferred. She immediately rushes to the pharmacy and buy's three pregnancy test. She tries them all after she comes home and give minute later she sees them all positive".

I finish my rambling and look up to see what seems to be the faint outline of a smile. "Well" I ask and he answers "you talk a lot". My face heats up and I immediately lower my gaze "but it is nice hearing your voice. The story seems nice, I will like to here the ending but I unfortunately have to go"he says while looking at his phone screen and I nod. "When are you leaving" he ask and I answer "I am just about to leave".

"I'll walk you to the parking lot" he says and I smile at him. I pack my things together and we leave the cafe together and walk in a surprisingly comfortable silence.

"Your not as boring as I thought you were" he breaks the silence. My cheeks heat up and I look at him "y-you  thought I-i-i-i was boring" I stammer. He shrugs and immediately starts turning back to move towards his car. I look to my right and noticed Oscar was there.

I smile and enter the car after unlocking it. I look up and stare at his back as he continues moving towards his car. As if he could feel my stare on me he turns and looks at me then look back and continue.

I smile to myself and start the car heading home. Those bitches would love hearing about this tomorrow in school, I think to myself. It was a very interesting day.

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Am on my way to my chemistry class and I catch a glimpse of Xavier, I smile at him but he looks back to his friends as if nothing happened. He has on his usual cold look. I walk pass them and go to my class.

The teacher is explaining something we already know Acids and Bases and the likes. I am jotting down main points that's when Charlotte strolls into the class looking all badass.

"Miss Turnerston, may I ask why you are late to my class and where your pass is" Mr. Philips ask clearly not liking the distraction to his class. I turn to look at Charlotte as the rest of the class are and  notice she is staring at me and the chair beside me which is empty.

"No, you may not ask and I got no pass" she say and casually stroll to the desk beside me as if nothing happened.

"That's detention for you Miss Turnerston" he says angrily mumbling some words under his breath which suspiciously sound like children of nowadays and no respect at all.

"With all due respect Mr Philips, I will love to go for my detention" she says in a deadpan tone and sits down. He ignores her and goes back to his lesson.

"Hey, your Melody right" she asks and I look at her and nod my head. If I wasn't the only Melody in this class I would have been turning my head to look for who she was talking to.

I just realized something, Charlotte Turnerston, girlfriend of Leon James is talking to me. I look up and notice she is staring at me probably trying to figure me out.

"You were with Xavier yesterday evening" and I nod again. "You guys talked, didn't you" and I nod once again.

"Can you just answer me instead of nodding" she seethe out. "Okay". "What did you talk about" she asked and I immediately feeling my walls going higher. "Normal things".

"What sort of normal things" she looks annoyed. "He just asked me to recommend something for his sister cause he has never been there before" I give her a honest answer even though it is not completely true.

She looked shocked for a moment then she goes back to her usual stoic expression, all the BBG have mastered that expression and the person who mastered it the best was Mr. Black.

"If I may ask why were you asking" I ask her out of the blue, she looks at me "No reason". "I can't accept that bullshit. Now tell me why the fuck you asked and how the fuck you knew" I say a little feisty and gaining confidence little by little.

Her jaw drops out of shock and it takes her a little while to regain her cool. "He might have mentioned you today morning " I was about to talk and she quickly added "as a slip of tongue". I nod urging her to continue.

The bell rang as she was about to continue talking and we both stood up, while I packed my stuff she waited for me. As we reach the front of the class Mr Philips stops us both "Miss Turnerston and Miss Thompson, I will meet you both in detention" as he handed us our detention slip.

I didn't object because I knew why but "Sir will it show on my record". "Miss Thompson, I will say am disappointed. I didn't expect this kind of behavior from you. And since this is your first time I will let it slide and won't put it on the record. But you have to attend the class" I nod in understanding.

"Thank you Mr Philips" I say and we leave. "You will explain it to me during detention, but for now I have to go" I tell Charlotte once we're out of class. She nods and I head to the Cafeteria.

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A/N: I was pretty excited about this chapter and I know the length of the chapter has increased, this is because am planning on increasing the length of each chapter to at most 2000. Before I normally keep it less than a thousand and if much a thousand but am increasing it slowly

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