Promised

Melissa's Change

Laura's POV

It's Been two Months Since The Lynch's Went Back to California. I Really Miss Ross Honestly But.. It Was Still for The Best. The Good News Is We Still Talk On regular Terms. And I'm Happy We Never Lost Contact Cause Id Die If We Relived That Whole Disaster .

I Was Laying In Bed Scrolling Down My Twitter Newsfeed When A Message Popped Up At The Top Of My Screen. I Immediately Read It.

Rossy❤️👌; Laura Marieeeee!

I Guess I'll Never Change That contact Huh? I Chuckled At The Message, He's Ridiculous.

Me; Rossy Shooooor!

I Smirked , Rossy Shor. Thats Pretty Classic if You Asked Me.

Rossy❤️👌; -.- You're Not Original.

Me; Why Not? Cause Mines Was Better? 😏

Rossy❤️👌; Not Even. But Uh, Answer The Call.

I scrunched Up My Face. "Answer The Ca-" I Began To Question Out Loud Until it Said "Rossy❤️👌 would like to facetime" I rolled My Eyes And Smiled Before Clicking Accept.

"Hey Songwriter." He Said Smirking.

"I finished The Song Ross!" I informed Him.. A drop in The Ocean. Finished It And It's Great To Be Honest. "Which One?" He Asked. "A Drop In the Ocean." I Said Cheesing. His Jaw Dropped. "You're Serious? Let Me Hear It ." He Said Smiling. I Nodded As I Got Up and Walked To The Keyboard. I began playing The Piano Until my Name Was Called By Melissa.

I Groaned. "Yeah?" I Answered Back. No Response. "Yeah?" I Asked Louder. No response. Ugh, Why do adults Do That. I Think They Just Wanna Make Kids Come to Them At All times (A/N: True Fact) .

"Really?" I Asked Out loud. Ross chuckled. "Looks Like It's Time For You to Walk Downstairs." He Teased. I Rolled My Eyes. "Thanks Captain obvious." I Said As I Got Up And Went Down There. "Yeah?" I asked Impatiently.

She Appeared Holding Half a Bottle Of Vodka. Did She Drink All Of That? "Why Is This House A Mess?" She Asked Angrily. I Examined It.. a Mess? There Were Only Pairs Of Shoes In the Middle Of The Floor And They're Hers.

"Melissa Those are YOUR Shoes." I Informed Her. "I Told You To Keep My Damn House Clean." She Said Narrowing Her Eyes At Me. "If You Picked Up Your Prostitute Heels It'd Be Fine." I Said Without Thinking.

"What'd You Just say?" She Snapped. I Sighed And Said "Nothing." . "Dont Test Me Laura Marano, I Took you And Your Sister In When I didn't Have To. I wasn't Fucking Obligated." She Swore. Is She Serious? Never Have I ever Wanted To Come To this House. Does She Think we Wanted To Come To Denver? Or Has She Forgotten that WE Didn't Have A Choice?

"Melissa, I Dont Want To Be Here Remember?" I Said Smartly. I'm guessing This was The Last Straw Because In the Blink Of An Eye She Approached Me And Slapped The Hell out Of Me. I was Shocked. My Cheek Was Stinging And Was Probably Red by Now.

"I've Tried, But Your Smart Remarks.. you Must Want To get Smacked." She Yelled. I Stared At Her In disbelief Debating Whether To Speak Or Keep My Mouth Shut. But I Spoke. "You've Tried? Melissa When Are You Ever Here?" I Yelled. I Heard Footsteps So I turned My Head To Find Vanessa Watch from the Top Of The Stairs.

"I'm here All the Time." She Stated. "When You're Coming To Pick out A Dress? Oh Or When you're Searching For Protection?" I Snapped. She Lost It And Started Swinging On me. I Blocked A Few Of Her Hits But She Was Getting Me Pretty Good As I Tried Kicking At Her Since She Basically Pulled Me Off The Bottom two steps.

"Hey!" Vanessa Yelled. I Was Kicking But I Started To Taste Blood, Great. "Get Off Of Her!" She Yelled Again Before Melissa Was Finally Away From Me. "Laura?" I heard From Afar. I Sat There For A Moment As The Tears Rushed Down my Cheeks. My Aunt Just Beat Me Like She Was Another Teenage Girl.

I Quickly Got Up And Ran Upstairs To My Room Slamming My Door Shut And Locking It Because I Was Just That Frightened. "Laura?" I Heard. Oh Yeah, Ross Is Still on. Thats When I Realized He Probably Heard Everything.

Maybe He Didn't Though? I Tried To Play It Cool and Picked The IPad Up Off My Bed Staring Into It. "Sorry About Th-" "Laura, What the Hell Was That Argument?" He Asked Quickly. I sighed. "You Heard?" I Asked The Dumbest Question ever Really. "She Hit You?" he Asked Sounding Serious And Sort of Protective.

But How Could He Know That? Just By The Yelling. "You could Tell From that Yelling?" I asked As I Groaned. "Laura, Your Lip Is Busted." He Pointed Out. Oh Yeah, I forgot I Tasted That Blood. "Right." I Said Touching My Lip And Flinching In Pain. "God, It Stings." I Said Laying Back On My Bed. "Since When Did Things Start Getting Physical?" He Asked Worried.

"She's Slapped Me A Few Times In the Past Month, But Never Actually Went To as far As Fighting Me. Who fights Their Niece?" I asked Running My Fingers Through My Hair. He Sighed. "I Dont Know. But It's Not Exactly Safe There Laur." He Said. Why thanks Ross.

"Ross, It's Fine. Im Fine, Honest." I said Even though My Busted Lip Was Hurting Like Hell. "I Just Dont Get How She Went From The Way She Was When she Took you Guys to Denver.. To How She is Now." He Said Unable to Understand.

"She's Basically A Drunk. Not A Drunk But She's Really An Alcoholic, I think it Affects Her Temper But She's Pretty Dangerous." I said Seriously. He Examined My Face Carefully Before Speaking. "Ive Gotta Go Rehearse For R5, Put Some Ice On that.. Please." He Said In a Pleading Tone. "But I'm Fi-" "Laura." he Said Getting In That Demanding Yet Protective Tone.

I lifted My Hands In surrender. "Fine I'll Put Some Ice On It." I Mumbled. "Thank You Back talker." He Said Kind Of Chuckling. "Whatever, How Can you Not Have A Smart Response To The Crap she Was Saying?" I Said Not Really Looking For An Answer. He Laughed A Bit And It Made Me Smile that he Wasn't Gonna be worried About Me As Much. "Bye Laur." He Said. "Bye Rossome." I Said Before Clicking End.

I Touched My Lips Again And Flinched Again. This Is Crap.