Just Another High School Romance

Chapter 3: Moment's Reprieve

 It's Sunday night, and it's another night of sleeping late, why do I even bother trying to go to sleep at an earlier time? I end up laying in bed for about an hour anyways. At least the hour is put to somewhat of a good use. It's almost like my mornings in the new dining room. I start thinking about Katy, I seem to be thinking of her a lot more lately. I really just want to go to sleep so that the next few hours go by quickly and I can see her at school again. For some reason she who shall not be named pops into my head. Oh god, why!? That's the last person I need to be thinking about. But I start thinking back to last year. Back to when I met her.

 Freshman year, new school, new pride, fake pride at that. What is it about entering high school that makes everybody think they are all that? But I digress, anyways, I still remember when I met her. I was sitting in 5th period Biology, I notice her. I look over and I head her way and introduce myself to her. She tells me her name, Melodie. I remember thinking to myself, "What a beautiful name." Boy do I wish I could take that thought back because beautiful isn't what comes to mind when I think or hear her name. I started hanging around her a lot  more, along with our two other friends; Umer and Marcelline. Umer and Marcelline also had 5th period Biology with us. At the time, Umer and Marcelline were going out, so it put a little more pressure on me to ask Melodie out. One day during Biology, Umer says he wants us all to go to the Walgreen's across the street from KF. I wanted to go too, so we run the idea by Melodie and Marcelline. Marcelline agrees and Melodie did want to go but she couldn't because she had to be at a club meeting, I can't remember which. So after school Umer, Marcelline, and I head to Walgreen's. We arrived and had to set our backpacks and other stuff at the front because management doesn't trust high school students. Considering where I go to school, I don't blame them. So we're hanging out in the aisles and Umer brings up Melodie. 

 "It sucks that she couldn't come", said Umer. "I know, but whatever", I said trying to play it cool, even though it never works for me. "Who? Melodie?", asks Marcelline. "Yeah. You know she likes you, right, Edward?", Umer says to me. "No she doesn't," I reply still trying to keep my cool and not blush, "you're just saying that." "No, really. I'll text her right now and ask if she likes you", he says pulling out his phone. I stare at the screen of his phone as he's typing in the words and then hits SEND. While we wait for the text we look around some more and a couple minutes later, we hear Umer's New Message notification. I wanted to run to Umer to look over his shoulder at the text but I just stayed where I was until Umer said something. "Look, see.", he said calling over to me. And there it was.

 "See," Umer says proudly, "it says 'You know I do', I told you she likes you!" I was so excited! We made our way to the front of the school, when we arrived we sat down on the benches out front of the entrance of the school. "I'm gonna ask Melodie out tomorrow," I said boldly. "You can't,"said Umer with a smirk on his face. I replied angrily, "And just why not!?" "Because," he said trying to hold back his laughs, "tomorrrow's Saturday." 

 Monday could not come quicker, Lunch came before 5th period so I looked for Melodie there. When I found her I invited her to sit at one of the booths I always sat in during lunch that year. Just as I'm about to ask Melodie to go out with me, Umer arrives and asks, "Have you asked her out yet?" "I was getting to it, Umer", I said trying to shoo him away. When I was about to turn around, Melodie had already replied yes. 

 I was happy when we were dating. We would text or call all night and we'd always partner up in 5th period. I had found out that her older brother's name is also Edward, and we both eventually found out that when he went to KF he and my older sister, Clarissa, were best friends. When Homecoming came around I asked her to go. She didn't want to go. She still said I could go and even though I really did wanna go because it would be my first Homecoming Dance, I didn't want to go without her. We had been dating for three months when winter break had come around. Two full weeks of vacation, finally! Although I was having a Christmas party for all of my family, so I had been busy for the whole first week with preparations. After the party and everything had been done, I had sat down to play my brand new copy of Halo: Reach on my brand new Xbox 360 that I got for christmas. I still remember this day clearly. It was Sunday January 1st, 2011. We had Monday off so I planned to use my remaining time wisely, somewhat. While playing I suddenly remember that I hadn't even texted Melodie all winter break. I was so mad at myself, I just hastily looked for my phone to text her to tell her I was so sorry  for not contacting her at all. I got her reply, her text read, "umm......I don't know how to tell you this.....but I don't want to go out with you anymore." 

 I felt my breath shorten, I dropped my phone out of sheer grief. I couldn't believe it, had this really just happened? All I could do was lay back and accept my fate. I'd been too heartbroken to even finish my game. I even remember thinking, "Happy FUCKING new year!" Later she had sent me a message on facebook asking if we could still be friends, all I replied was, "I don't know." About a month later, when I felt a lot better, I was talking to one of my best friends, Roman. He is also a really big friend of  Melodie's, so her popping up in conversation is inevitable, I'm just glad it's not often that she does. We were playing a round of Halo: Reach while talking over Xbox LIVE. "Whatever happened between you and Melodie?" "I don't know, Roman, I really didn't want to know why she decided to break up with me", I told him hoping we would talk about something else. "All I really regret is not going to Homecoming." "You didn't go to Homecoming!? Why not!? Homecoming dance was fun!", he said. "Well I had asked Melodie to go but she didn't want to. She did say I could still go but I didn't want to go without her", I said trying to sedate his hunt for answers. "What," Roman said in shock,  "dude, she did go. She was hanging out with me, Janey, and Janey's date all night. There was a bunch of other people with us too." I couldn't believe it, she had lied to me all this time. And she still had the nerve to ask if we could still be friends!? All I could do at the moment was finish the Halo: Reach match and turn off the console. 

 I've been thinking about this for too long, I don't need another night of restless sleep. I start thinking about Katy again. I start to calm down and feel more relaxed, at least I can feel calm and comfortable while I try to salvage whatever hours of sleep that I can. At least I'll be able to see Katy again tomorrow.