"Pumpkin-" "don't you dare call me by that word ever again!"
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Melanie Miller, not your average girl. She turned herself from a fatso and a nerd, to a hot girl and a team captain.
Pumpkin, is the word she loathes!
She has grown to hate the word...
I stare on the board with my elbow on the table and my chin on my palm. A sign showing that I'm clearly not interested. I stare out of the window out of habit and see the pole with our school flag. The images come shooting back in my head, but today, I don't fight it and instead I...
~Flashback~
"Please guys, I'm begging you, please untie me, it's almost evening now. Please!" I beg him and his friends to untie me, but all he did was laugh at me.
"Please, why would you do this to me?" I ask,
He comes closer to me and strokes my face gently, "because pumpkin, torturing and seeing you beg for mercy makes me happy." He smirks and chuckles evilly.
He tied me up to the pole tighter and tighter, and I knew that would leave a big red mark on my stomach and chest. He laughed one more time and left with his friends.
I stayed there freezing and shivering, my lips turned blue and dry from the cold. A few seconds passed, seconds turned to minutes and minutes turned to hours, but I didn't know how long I stayed here for.
My head felt heavy and I slowly felt my surroundings turning around. My eyes slowly started drooping and I tried to keep them open but soon, my eyes shut and black out.
~End of flashback~
My mind is back to reality and now I'm hearing my teacher repeat my name for the fifth time. "Melanie, where is your mind?"
"Sorry Ms. Brown, I'm completely focused now."
"You better be." She says and continues the lesson.
I look towards Emma and she looks at me with a worried look. I smile at her, assuring her that I'm ok.
The class ends in a few minutes and we both walk out together for P.E. "why do you keep doing this to yourself?" She asks and I knew exactly what she was talking about, but I played dumb.
"What are you talking about?"
"You know exactly what I'm talking about. You keep looking at things that remind you of what happened with you because of him. Stop doing that to yourself Mel." Em explained.
"I can't Em. It's too hard for me to forget about everything he did to me. I try my best to forget but it doesn't work. I just can't."
"Anyways, let's forget about this and go for P.E . We need to beat the other team. Again." She says and we both chuckle while walking to the gym room.
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"P. E was so fun! But history after that was boring. Mr. Perez never fails to bore us." I said,
"But you've got to admit, he's kinda hot." Emma says,
"Agreed."
We take our trays, get our food and sit at our usual spot. We babble on about random things like school, boys, Alexa, etc. etc.
We were so lost in our world that we didn't notice the whole jock group come at our table. A finger snap bought us back to the real world and I followed the finger up to the face to see Nathan Moore.
I'll give a quick intro: Nathan is the captain of the guy's basketball team and the current leader of the jocks. He always flirts and plays around with girls. He mostly flirts with Emma for some specific reason that I still need to find out. And he also happens to be his best friend. But Nathan didn't torture me as much as he tortured me and he also apologized sincerely. So, I forgave him.
"Mind if we join y'all?" He asks with his charming smile that could warm up any cold hearted person.
"Of course we do," I said and he looks confused until I laughed and said, "no we don't."
Him and his friends joined us, his friends, Daniel and Thomas, sitting at each of my sides and Nathan sitting next to Em. I couldn't help but notice the pink tint on her face because of Nathan's closeness.
"What were you guys talking about?" He starts the conversation.
"Just girl stuff." I replied,
And just like that we all talked about random things and laughed like there was no tomorrow. Soon lunch break came to an end and we all stood up to go to our next classes, but before that happened, Nathan looked towards Em and asked,
"Emma would you go out with me after school? For coffee. You don't have to if you don't want to and that's if you're free."
"I'm free so I'd come with you." She replied,
"Great! I- I mean cool. So I'll pick you up after the last period, yeah?"
"Yeah!"
He smiled and left with his friends, "Nathan huh?" I ask and smirk at her, and she playfully hit me on my shoulder. We both chuckle and walk to our next class.
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I'm. So. EXHAUSTED!
After picking up Alex, cooking food, finishing my homework, helping with Alex's homework, taking her to her best friend's party where she was the DJ and bringing her back home, it took me a lot of strength to walk into the washroom and have a long shower.
I put my Pj's on and walked into Alexa's room to find her asleep with her laptop and headphones. I removed her headphones, saved her beats and shut her laptop, placing it on her bedside table. I placed her blanket on her and kissed her forehead before leaving the room.
With my stomach lying flat on the blanket, I went through my snapchat and Instagram, and of course found many comments like;
"OMG you're so hot!"
"Are you single?"
"Date me please!"
"So. Fucking. Hot!"
And so on. All I posted was this;
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Credits to my boyfriend who took this picture. And for those of you who are wondering about my relationship status, I'm single.
How?
My boyfriend dumped me for this cute waitress he saw in the cafe when we were on our 20th date.
Anyways, it's time for me to go to sleep, so good night y'all and I'll see you tomorrow.
***** What do you think about this chapter? Is it good? Comment and tell me.
Quote:"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." - Marilyn Monroe
