Contemptress

Chapter 12

"Ugh my  head", I say as I raise a hand to my forehead and i flutter my eyes open as I raise myself up. "Where am I?" I say as I jump up to my feet and grab on to the couch to adjust to gravity for a second, "what happened last night?", I say looking around. "You gave me a fucking heart attack is what happened", a sleepy Ryan says yawning as I scream and fall down on  the wooden floor. "You're accident prone aren't you?', he says as he stands up and looks down upon me, "a little", I say as I push myself back up on the couch. "So what happened last night?", I ask as I pull my knees up to my chest, "I should be asking you the same thing", Ryan responds plopping down next to me. "I was at the skate park drawing and trying to come up with inspiration for lyrics and I heard someone sobbing and I went to go check it out and I found you, Then, when I tried to ask you what was wrong you kinda went hysterical and then your eyes rolled in the back of your head and you passed the fuck out on me and I was scared shitless so I drove you the hospital because you were completely limp and your eyes were swollen from how hard you were crying", I raise my hand to my throat that does feel a bit scratchy and my eyes are instantly drawn to the hospital bracelet on it. "They said you had fainted due to exhaustion and they gave you some shot that they said would help you sleep peacefully all night and they let you go under my supervision so I brought you back to my place, I hope you don't mind." As soon as Ryan finishes his sentence I tackle him with a hug, "Ryan you saved me! Who knows what would've happened to me if you wouldn't have been there. Thank you so much for looking out for me", "no problem Mel", he says as he hugs me back and I tense up. Mel... We'll have to do this again sometime Mel, his voice echoed through my head as a fit of anger hit me harder than a ton of bricks. "That no good lying ass whore and that sadistic, psychotic son of a bitch", I say through gritted teeth while clenching my fists as all the events of last night flashback in my head. "Melodie? MELODIE? EARTH TO MELODIE?", Ryan says shaking me out of my state as we lock eyes. "Dude you looked like you could've murdered someone 47 different ways, you legit scared me", I start blushing out of embarrassment and mumble out a small "sorry" as I look down and fumble with the blanket. "It's okay", Ryan says with a reassuring grin, "Do you wanna tell me what happened last night?" I look at him and take a deep breath and begin explaining everything, including the fact I'm prone to pass out if I get too stressed and that's why I'm not freaking out about the fainting part. After I explained everything Ryan just looked at me and said, "hold on", and jumped over the couch and brings me a half eaten tub of Ben&Jerry's of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. I make a little happy squeal and start digging in.