Behind the Lies

Chapter 5

Melanie's POV

The rest of the day flies by and before I know it I'm heading out the door with Harry and a large stack of work to do tonight. Great. I was hoping to be able to spend the whole night talking to Darbs.

"Hey, this might be weird but do you have any plans for tonight?" Harry questions me.

What. Does this mean he wants to hang out with me? We honestly just met this morning and I've gone from hating him to actually enjoying his company during the course of the school day. But I feel like the more time I spend with him the more I will like him and well there's just no way that could end well. Once a douchebag, always a douchebag. But I might as well enjoy his company while he's still being friendly..right?

"Nope, I'm free, well besides this pile of junk I have to do, my mom will be working her ass off or fucking some random guy but either way she won't even be home. Why, do you have something in mind?"

"Well I just wondered if you wanted to hang out or something, I kinda really like hanging out with you which is weird considering you're a prissy goodie goodie bitch." Harry smiles after saying this, showing off his dimples.

"If you're going to insult me like that then no, I have other people I can talk to." I lie, besides Darbie there's no one I talk to but he doesn't have to know that.

"I'm just kidding Mel, geez, learn to take a joke! But what I mean is that your just different than all the other girls I know, more down to Earth and honest, I guess, but it's refreshing! So you wanna hang or what?"

I roll my eyes at him. "Yeah sure, but only if you help me unpack my castle of cardboard boxes and you bring along a pizza!"

Harry grins at me again,"Sounds like a fair trade to me! I'll be over at 5:30!" With that he turns and start walking across the student parking lot.

"Wait Harry, you don't even know where I live! Do you want my address or are you just gonna drive around the area looking for my house?" I laugh at him as he walks back over to where I'm standing.

Harry's cheeks are red with embarrassment, "Oh yeah, I forgot I don't know where you live!"

I giggle. "It's all good, my address is 332 West Street, it shouldn't be too hard to find!"

Harry nods his head, "Yeah I know where that is, I'll see you at 5:30 then Mel!"

I wave to him as he makes his way to his car again and then head towards mine. As I walk across the parking lot I pull out my phone and see a text from Darbie.

'Hey Mel, hope your day is going well, can't wait to hear all about the hot guy you picked up today (; love ya!'

I smile as I hop into my car and start up the engine. Everything about Darbie makes me smile, and I smile even bigger when her playlist from earlier today comes on. This time it's the song 'Mama' by My Chemical Romance.

I glance at my mirrors and then shift my head to look behind me before backing out. In my mind, you can never be too careful when backing out, especially in school parking lots. There are so many idiotic kids who should not be behind the wheel and I'm guessing this school is not an exception.

I wait about ten minutes in line before being able to pull out of the school parking lot. I take a right out of the school and immediately pass an almost empty parking lot. The only car parked there looks extremely familiar. OH MY GOD. It's the weird black car from earlier today that I thought was following me. No. Mel, calm down. This is probably just a coincidence and there are definitely more than just one black tinted windowed cars in the city. It just so happens that you saw two in one day, nothing to worry about!