In Need Of Just A Little Love

A New Friend

I get out of bed and get ready for school. I don't want to go, but I can't tell my parents what happened. First of all they won't believe me and second of all if they do believe me they might blame Melle. I won't risk that. I sigh and put on a black ripped jeans and a Twenty One Pilots bandmerch. I walk downstairs, followed by Melle who just got out of his room aswell.
"Morning" Melle murmurs as he walks behind me off the stairs.
"Goodmorning" I huff.
We reach the bottom of the stairs and walk to the kitchen, where the plates with our breakfast and boxes of our lunch stand on the counter. My parents are at work already and Kate always has to go to dance classes by 6 AM. So we always eat with the two of us.
"So, have you been sleeping well?" Melle asks me.
I sigh "I had nightmares all the time."
Melle nods slightly "they say sleeping on your stomach helps, but I doubt it."
"What got you so serious?" I ask curiously.
Melle shrugs "I don't know, what if people saw me beat up those children. If college gets to know I'll get in huge trouble.."
"You had a reason, I guess" I try to help.
Melle shrugs and stays silent.

We eat in silence till we both have to go for school.
"See ya, Melle" I say.
"Later, sis" Melle mutters.
I jump on my bike and cycle to the opposite way as Melle.

I arrive at school and see David and Lucas at the front door, smirking when they see me. Lucas has a black eye and David has a red mark on his jawline. I set my bike in the bicycle storage and avoid their eyes. I avoid everyone's eyes. I feel all their eyes on me, but I look at the ground, walking to the fence. When I look up I see a new guy, he also looks at me. Then he looks around at everyone else watching me, frowning. I just, not realizing, stare at him. The new guy stands all alone, I watch him, every step he takes. Closer to me. Closer. Closer. Till he stands in front of me. I blink.
"Ehh, sorry!.. I didn't mean to stare.." I squeel.
"Hehe, it's okay" the guy says "my name is Daniel, but call me Dan."
I show a faint smile "I'm Marie.."
The bell rings.
"Which class are you in?" I ask Daniel.
"4C" he says.
"Ah! Same! Let's go to class together" I say excitedly.
Daniel nods and follows me to our class.

While class I observed Daniel, who sat in the front, I sit in the back. I saw how his clothes pretty much were all black, he had kind of the same haircut as Melle, only Melle's hair is blonde, Daniel's hair is black.

After school I call Melle I come home a little later. Since it's friday, and my parents work all day and Kate's staying over at her boyfriend's place, I have to tell Melle when I come home. He makes diner tonight and my parents come home by 10 tonight. I'm gonna go meet Daniel's parents. He asked if I came over and I said yes.

We arrive at his home and go inside
"Hi mom" Daniel says.
"Welcome home sweetie, how was school?" his mother responds.
My mother never responds.
"Mehh, was okay, I took someone though" Daniel says back.
"Ah" his mother comes downstairs "a friend? Nice to meet you, I'm Melody Spreen"
"I'm Marie.. Nice to meet you too, Miss" I respond.
"Ah, please call me Melody" Melody responds happily.
"Alright Miss, I mean Melody" I chuckle a little.
Melody comes closer to Daniel to kiss his cheek and then whispers something in his ear, which I can't hear.
"Mom!" Daniel laughs. Then he grabs my arm and pulls me upstairs to his room.
When we reach his room I see a piano that takes a lot of space in his room.
"Can you sing?" Daniel grins.
"Eh, why?" I ask, not answering.
"First answer, can you sing?" Daniel repeats.
"I don't know, a little bit?" I respond.
"Seriously, your mother never told you to shut up when you were singing, or actually said she liked your voice?" he asks.
"No.." I respond "I never really sing when there're other people at home then my bro- foster brother."
"Ah, I heard about him at school I think, is he the one who punched David and Lucas?" Daniel casually asks.
My eyes widen a little "yeah.."
"He must have had a good reason to" Daniel says, pretending he doesn't know what happened.
I nod.
"I know what happened though" he says.
I sigh "I feel so nasty.."
"Eh, let's keep happy thoughts, now wanna try to sing? I can tell you if you're good or not" Daniel says.
"Sure, I think" I chuckle.
Daniel plays a little bit of 'I Hate You, I Love You'.
"You do know that song right?" Daniel asks, knowing it's a stupid question.
"Of course I do" I laugh.
He starts playing and I start singing along the female voice, he does the male voice.
When we're done Daniel seems super excited.
"You sing fucking awesome!" Daniel says.
"You do, too" I laugh.
I sing more songs with Daniel playing the piano. I feel so happy, finally I have a friend.