That's What I Thought | s.m

Chapter Nine

c h a p t e r  n i n e.
t h a t ' s  w h a t  i  t h o u g h t.
m e l o d y  r e a g a n.

"Alex?" I said, shocked to see who once was my best friend, standing in front of me with a look of hatred in her eyes

"Hey, Melody," she smirked

"What are you doing here?"

"Isn't it obvious? I'm here to see my best friend," she smile sarcastically and admired her freshly painted manicure

"No you aren't, cut the shit, you haven't spoken to me in six months, and now you're back and have the audacity to call me your 'best friend'," I made quotation marks with my fingers, "You stopped talking to me with no explanation, and you expect to just walk right into my life again as if nothing ever happened?"

"No of course not," she laughed, "In fact, you lost that title a long time ago. How are you by the way? I hear you've been getting some awful texts recently," chuckling she took a step closer to me

"Wait, how do you know that?" Taking a step back I shook my head, it can't be..

"Woah Melody, I thought you were smart enough to work that out.." Taking another step closer her smile grew wider

"You. It's.. you?" my voice wavered, as a lump formed in my throat

"Duh!" she exclaimed, laughing hysterically, like it was the funniest thing she'd ever done, "Looks like I've been apart of your life for a while now, you just haven't realized it,"

Shawn grabbed my hand and pulled me close to him, "Let me handle this," he stated

I shook my head. This was my fight, I couldn't bring him into this. I removed myself from his grip and stepped closer to her, my confidence growing with each step

"Why are you doing this?" I questioned, failing to understand the reason for what she was doing

"Did you ever think to phone me or ask me how I was doing when I left? Ever think my life wasn't as perfect as you thought, because you were so caught up in all of your own problems, you left me, alone, to help myself." she hissed

"You told me you were doing fine whenever we talked, you said that you had loads of friends. You never had any time to speak to me, if anything, it was you who left me."

"No Melody, I said that so you wouldn't worry about me. I said that so I wouldn't add to your plate of problems, and I didn't want you to go out of your way to help me." she sighed

"Then why didn't you just tell me? you can't get mad at me if I never knew about it, I honestly would have helped you with everything I had, you were the only thing I had left." My voice caught in my throat

"Yeah, because your precious parents left you and you only had me, well.. News flash! I had nobody either."

"At least you had your parents you ungrateful little bitch, you have people who love you, I have nobody, not even any relatives. I had nobody but myself. It got pretty lonely."

"Listen-" I cut her off

"I tried to kill myself you know, because I had nobody, I got bullied in school, I had nobody to turn to, I went home every night and cried wishing this pain would stop." Tears fell from my eyes but I didn't care, I glanced at Shawn to see he was sitting on the bench taking in every word we said, "I didn't want to live like this anymore, I was done, obviously it didn't work, or I wouldn't be here right now. But I just thought you should know." I sighed

She looked shocked, hurt maybe, but it's not like she cared, she didn't check up on me for so long, "That's a pity, who found you so I can tell them what a big mistake they made?" she snickered. As the anger rushed through me, I didn't think before I raised my hand and slapped her as hard as I could. "What the fuck?" she screamed

"It was no mistake, I've been waiting to do that for so long," I smirked

Shawn immediately stood up, a smile on his face, and grabbed my hand, as we walked out of the park and into his car.

"I'm not letting you stand there, getting abuse from somebody who's been sending you anonymous text messages, and hurting you even more than you already are. But you showed her, I'm so proud of you," he held my hand and intertwined our fingers, "I'm so glad it didn't work, because if it did, I wouldn't be able to be as happy as I am right now, and I need you to be happy too so you know how much I care about you," he smiled

I looked up into his beautiful, brown eyes and couldn't hold it together anymore. The tears poured out of my eyes like a river

"But what if she was right shawn,"

"No. She wasn't, you deserve to smile always, I hate seeing you like this, I need you to be happy, seeing you like this breaks me. I need to see that beautiful smile of yours." he sighed, placing his free hand on top of our intertwined hands, "Who found you?"

"I don't think you want to know.." I sighed

"Trust me, I really do,"

The person that found me, has changed a lot from when it happened, they aren't a good part in my life anymore, and I wish I'd never have met them, I don't thank them for saving me, and the only reason they did it, was because they thought they'd killed me in the first place.

"Who was it?"

"Dylan."

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OOOHHHH, why did dylan think he killed her???
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