The Bad Ass Next Door

Ch#15 Complications

Chapter#15 Complications

"Prom season's finally here! I'm so excited!" Melanie chimed, clapping her hands together in delight.

"I bet Jack's gonna ask you out" I nudged her knowingly.

"I wonder... anyway tell me about yourself. What are your plans for the prom? Did Mike plan anything?"

"Umm... dunno.... Maybe he's planning something after all. Boys are always a mystery."

"Yeah boys" Melanie nodded slightly, blowing off the strands of hair that were sticking to her face.

"Wait here. I wanna take out my book for calculus test" I paced towards my locker and opened it.

I ducked inside to search for my notebook and found it in a poor condition, the pages crumbled up and torn.

I huffed and pulled on it hard, not forgetting to keep the rest of books in the stack from falling.

" Hurry up! The warning bell will ring anytime soon!" Melanie half yelled at me while I slammed the locker shut and turned around to face her.

She started walking towards the class and I quickened my pace to match her.

"Mm... N"

"Mmhmm?" I replied.

"Are you happy with Mike? You've always wanted him as your date.... So are you like... happy?"

"Of course I am" I kept a straight face.

"Yeah?"

"yeah" I said as a matter of fact.

We kept on taking steady steps towards the class.

Although there was lots of chattering in the hallway, the silence between me and my best friend was deafening and I could tell she sensed that something was definitely wrong with my answer.

"Melanie! Hey!"

We halted in our tracks as Melanie turned around and she practically screamed, placing her hands over her face and before I could figure out what made her horrified, a guy strangled her with a weird hug and they both attacked the floor with Melanie underneath the boy.

"J-Jack what the heck!" Melanie shouted in his face as he kept on laughing.

I could see that Melanie was, though not intentionally, enjoying her position and was on the verge of cracking up into fits of laughter as if Jack's laugh was contagious.

"What were you even thinking!" she slipped from in his arms whilst he kept on shaking, turning red, tears threating to fall from his eyes.

"I- I wanted t-to ask you... you th-that..."

"Ask me what?!" Melanie crossed her arms.

They both were now in a position where their legs were tangled together, Jack's hand resting on Melanie's back.

"Melanie Convey... will you be my date to prom?"

A lot of 'Awws' were heard from across the corridor which reminded that we three weren't alone at place.

"W-what... I m-mean .Yeah!"

Melanie almost screamed and after a second of realization, her hands came in contact with her wide opened mouth.

Jack instantly attacked her with the most adorable hug that I had ever seen in my life. Her hands stayed on her sides as she took a minute to recover from the shock of the recent happening but then her hands slowly travelled up his back and she finally crossed her arms tightly around his torso, digging her face in his chest.