Lana Loves Melanie

Ready to Confess

    As the week went on, Lana followed Kristen's advice and got to know Melanie better. She learned some fairly interesting things: she's an only child, but she has cousins that she considers siblings, she only has her mom, but she's totally Ok with that, she has a cat named Cookie and a bird named Aqua, and the most interesting fact of all, she loves making friends.

All of these things only escalated Lana's attraction to her. By Friday, Lana decided that now was the time to confess her feelings. However, she felt she needed more input from Kristen. Lunchtime seemed like the perfect time to talk to Kris about this.

Today Lisa joined Melanie and the twins for lunch. Normally Lisa ate lunch either by herself or with a couple of friends from her kindergarten class. Only on fairly rare occasions did Lisa eat with any of her siblings. After the twins told her about Melanie, Lisa decided that she wants to meet her.

"So you're Melanie Hart. We meet at last," Lisa tells Melanie as she sits down for lunch.

Melanie raises an eyebrow at Lisa, "And you are?" Melanie questions.

"I'm Lisa, younger of sister of Lola and Lana," Lisa introduces.

This time Melanie raises both her eyebrows, "Younger sister? You seem far too well-spoken to be younger than the twins," Melanie comments.

"Thank you. That's because I'm a genius. Four years old and I'm very adept at science and other academic subjects," Lisa explained.

"Wow, that's impressive. Well nice to meet you Lisa," Melanie greets.

Lana starts looking around the cafeteria for Kris. When she finally finds her, Lana turns to Lola, Melanie, and Lisa.

"Uh, excuse me, I'll be right back," Lana excuses herself as she goes to Kris' table.

When Kris sees Lana approach her table, she greets her friend, "Hi Lans, have a seat," Kris offers.

"Thanks," Lana sits across from Kris.

Kris places both her elbows on the table and places her hands underneath her chin. "So...how's your progress?" Kris asks in a sultry tone.

"Oh, you mean with Melanie?" Lana asks.

"Mm-hmm," Kris replies while moving her eyebrows up and down.

First, Lana looks around to make sure nobody's around. When she feels the coast is clear, she uses her hand to gesture for Kris to move closer. Once she does, Lana tells her progress.

"I'm liking her more every day," Lana confessed.

Kris beams with pride, "Aww, that's great news Lana!" She congratulates.

"After following your advice and getting to know her better, I think I can safely say I have a crush on her," Lana says.

"Bravo," Kris says, "So you think you're ready to tell her?"

"I think so," Lana replies, "And I know the perfect time to tell her. During Lola's art class since both Melanie and I have a free period."

"Good plan," Kris compliments.

Lana's excitement abruptly stopped when a thought came into her mind that could potentially spell out bad news for her.

"Wait...but what if...she doesn't like girls?" Lana mumbles nervously.

Kristen's smile instantly fades when she realizes that could be a possibility. However, she started to remember a similar situation she was in where she herself had a crush on a straight girl.

"Lana..." Kris started to say. This immediately caught Lana's attention.

"Lana, if it turns out that Melanie likes boys, don't worry about it," Kris tells her.

"What do you mean?" Lana wonders, legitimately curious.

"I was in a similar situation," Kris explains, "The very first girl crush I had was on a straight girl. When she told me, I was upset at first but gradually I learned to move on and get past it. And even though she felt a little awkward about it at first, she also learned to let it go," Kris explained.

"So what exactly happened?" Lana replies.

"It took a while, but we were able to remain the closest of friends. So hopefully if Melanie doesn't like you the same way, she can find it in her heart to at least be your friend," Kris whispers in a soft tone.

Lana turns around and looks back towards Melanie, who is smiling and laughing with Lola and Lisa. She realized this week that Melanie would make an excellent friend, even if she can't be anything more than that.

Lana looks back at Kris, "You know what? Even though she can't be, you know, anything other than a friend, I'll be fine with it," Lana says.

"You sure about that?" Kris wonders.

"Yes I am," Lana reassures, "I'm gonna head back. Lunch is almost over."

"Good luck and let me know what happens," Kris bids farewell.

At 2:30 pm, Lola was in her art class and Lana looked around the playground for Melanie. When she finally found her picking dandelions in a field near the school, she knew the time had come to confess her feelings.

Taking a deep breath, Lana approached Melanie. The redhead grins at the blonde that was walking up to her.

"Hi Lana," Melanie greets.

"Hi Melanie," Lana answers.

"Nice weather isn't it," Melanie comments.

"Melanie..." Lana hesitates, "There's something I have to tell you."

Melanie takes notice of Lana's nervous demeanor and starts to wonder if what Lana has to tell her is serious. Her smile turns into a small frown and she tilts her head.

"Tell me what Lana?" Melanie speaks up.

This is it. Here it comes. The phrase that Lana was terrified of saying but knew that she definitely had to say. She placed her hands to her side and looks at the redhead right in the eyes.

"Melanie. I...I...I like you. And I don't just mean as a friend. But I mean I like like you," Lana stuttered.

Now that she confessed, and actually relieved that she did, Lana looks at Melanie and waits patiently for her reaction.

Melanie reacted to the news by opening her eyes wide, dropping the dandelions that were clutched in her hands, and loudly gasped in shock.

TO BE CONTINUED...