Melody

Melody Stories

August put James on speaker phone while I sat back, swimming in a pool of embarrassment.

" This is going to be the most embarrassing, dramatic death a teenage girl could face." I thought to myself.

" Okay, I really really love this one!" James remarked,  pleased with himself.

"When Melody was about 10 years old, she was in Aladdin Jr. She really wanted to play the lead, but she got the chorus once again. She ended up making friends with a bunch of people that she thought would actually hang out with her outside of the play."

" Hey!" I interjected.

" What? It's true! " I rolled my eyes."Anyways, before I was rudely interrupted." He said referring to me.

" Continue my lord." I said sarcastically.

" Okay, so Melody and her fake friends were in the middle of a performance, and melody was trying to hold still. As much as I love her, she is so incredibly clumsy that I don't actually trust her with sharp objects. She was struggling with the gravity. Well, she was standing in front of a cardboard set that was all connected, and she had been working all day and her legs were so tired...."

August listened with amusement." No, she didn't!!!"

" Oh yes she did!" He said pleased." After she knocked over the entire set she got up, ran to the dressing room, and texted me saying she was crying her eyes out."

I was so embarrassed. Even though these moments were small, they still brought back the memories of guilt , but at the same time, I kind of wanted to laugh. Yet again he had managed to make something that had haunted me, slowly slip into a hilarious moment of my life.

" That's not the only one." James said slyly, and continued the series of melody fails.

"She invited a boy she liked to go swimming with her to her grandmother's lake. They were swimming and having a good time and then suddenly, sweet, innocent, cute little Mel's top just -"

" The last one was kinda funny, but you know we don't have to tell this story." I said hinting that this was crossing the line a little bit.

" Dude no way! I'm telling it." He said persistently.

I buried my face in my hands and let out an unamused sigh. August looked over to me and saw this was something I really didn't want told.

" Maybe a different Melody story, I think I already know the ending."

I breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank god."

" Fine." He said disappointed. "Oh I have a good one. Melody was going on a Ferris wheel with her younger sister, and she gets motion sick, but she didn't know it yet. She takes meds now before she does anything crazy. She ended up freaking out, getting dizzy, and puked on a carni." He laughed as he said the last part.

August laughed too, and I'll admit, I let out a little giggle.

" After the ride, I got off and apologized and he told me it happened all the time, but he looked like he was holding back his middle finger." I said chiming in.

They both laughed even harder. I am a fuck up, but at least we can laugh about it. They told plenty of stories that made me cringe and remember all the mistakes I had made. People told me that some day you would look back at them and laugh. I never believed it until I could find someone to laugh at me, with me. That was so cheesy, but it's true. I love to hate how love makes me feel.

" Are you excited to go to the fair?" I asked James after what felt like hours of blushing and awkward sighs and giggles.

" Yep and , cough cough, you should ask someone else to join, cough cough. Just saying." I could practically see him raising his eyebrows.

" I was actually gonna ask you if he could come?"

" Hell yeah! Bring him to meet me! I wanna see if he's as good as you say he is."

I looked over to August who knew very well who we were talking about.

" August, would you like to go to the fair with James and I? He would like to have a further inspection of you."

" Yes. I would be happy to be judged by your wonderful companions." He said happily.

" Yes! I might gain a new friend to bother and be bothered by, in a fun way of course." James said.

" I can't wait!" August said excitedly.

" James don't steal my boyfriend. I like him all the muches." I said playfully.

" All the muches Mel?" He laughed.

" Yep!" I said happily." All the muches in the world."

I looked over to August. He was grinning ear to ear, with red filling his cheeks, he let out another one of his boyish giggles that I couldn't resist. Simply amazing. He saw me looking at him and his face grew brighter, with insecurity hiding behind his eyes.

" What?" He said.

" Nothing. You're just really pretty." I said smiling.

" You just like me for my body!" He said dramatically.

" Although you have a lovely body," I said moving closer, eventually placing my hands in his chest." I think your personality is the sexiest part of you." I looked into his eyes.

" That was smooth as fuck!" I thought to myself.

" So did you guys forget about your old pal James...?" James asked awkwardly.

" Shit." I murmured." Hey James." I said trying to collect myself.

" I'll let you go and have your man time. Use protection Miss Mel." I could hear him grinning simply by the tone  of his voice.

" Bye babe, see you at the fair." I said to James.

" Can't wait to see that boy toy of yours." His grin turned into a smirk. " Bye August."

" Bye."

" Bye."

"Bye."

"That was my James." I said tucking a brown curl behind my ear.

"He was hilarious, and I love the stories." He said with smile.

"Yeah... Well that's me." I said with a nervous laugh.

" Yep, it's you." He said moving closer.

His eyes flickered from my eyes to my lips. I could almost all the air leave my lungs. He wrapped his arms tightly around my waist. I hated that he could control me simply by looking at me, but then again, that was amazing.

That's when he broke his gaze and started laughing.

" What!" I said snapping back to my reality and breaking his hold on me.

" You started it!"

" Nuh- uh!"

" Uh- huh!"

" Fight me!"

" Make me." He whispered in my ear.

I leaned in and kissed him. He was stunned for a moment, but then I felt him slowly melt into the kiss. Every time we kiss, there was a spark that never truly faded, that made me crave more.

I felt a buzz in my pocket." Excuse me for a moment." I said dreamily.

I looked down and I got a text from Sammy.

Melody, I could really use your company right now... I'm having a  code red....

" Shit!" I snapped back into reality.

Code red meant that she was feeling alone or she wanted to end it, the big IT. She and I came up with that, when in middle school, her mom had to take her to the hospital for slit wrists. I made her promise that if she was ever struggling with something to text me "code red".

" I gotta go!" I said urgently.

" I'll drive you."

" Only if you drive quickly!"

We drove quickly to see her." Please be okay, please be okay, please be okay." That was re only thing I could think of, even as August wrapped his hand around mine.