Contemptress

Chapter 16

Vinny carries me outside and finally places me back on my feet. "Do you wanna explain what the Hell is going on?", he questions as I cross my arms and pout and look away. "Okay, we're gonna play this game", Vinny says as he pops his knuckles and does a few over-exaggerated stretches as I give in and smile a little. "Caught ya!", he says as he looks up at me real fast and I change my expression real fast, "hmph!", I say as I stomp my foot and turn away from him. By this point I've slightly slipped into little space and frankly I don't give a damn, I've put up with too much these past 24 hours to adult, adulting is far too hard. Why adult when you can little? I know Vinny doesn't quite like the thought of DDLG but he shouldn't say shit as long as I'm not calling him Daddy. I'm quickly taken away from my thoughts as I feel two hands on each of my sides beginning to ferociously tickle me and I become a laugh mess. "Tell me what's going on or I'll tickle you to death", Vinny yells out about my laughter, "N-never Vincenzo!", I gasp out out of breath. "Oh, so you wanna play the full name thing? Okay", he says tickling me even more harder and I didn't even think that was possible. "OKAY! OKAY I'LL TALK JUST FUCKING STOP TICKLING ME!", I yell out as Vinny stops and smiles at himself with satisfaction. Of course I keep laughing even after he stopped, to get all my giggles out, and he just laughs in return. "You got all of it out yet?", he says as he gently smiles at me. My laughing goes down to giggles but I let out a loud snort and quickly put my hand over my mouth as my eyes go wide I begin blushing. "You're so cute", Vinny says smiling as my eyes shoot back up to meet his, "did I just say that out loud?", he questions and this time he becomes a blushing mess. "Don't worry", I say in a small voice, "I think you're cute too", I say as I take a few steps closer to him. Just as I approach him he intertwine our fingers as I smile up at him up and he smiles back. Vinny leans down and I don't stop him. The kiss is simple and sweet, like in high school. Vinny is a great guys I know, but I'm hurt so we'll be taking things slow. Like this kiss, it is over within a matter of seconds and then we're just smiling at each other but I feel happy... for now.

Ryan's POV
I quickly smacked Chris upside the head, "I thought you were done with Gaia!", I somewhat yelled in his face. I'm probably one of the only people in the world that could get away with that without being killed. "I said we weren't dating, I never said we were done", he says scowling me while rubbing the back of his head. "Man I told you enough is enough with that shit. If Maria still wants to do it fine but that doesn't mean you have to. You told me how you felt about Melodie and I've never seen you talk that way about any other girl. Give her a chance", I pleaded with him. "It's all I know", he replied as his face dropped, "it's all I've ever known and it keeps me from getting hurt", I throw my arm around my best friend to comfort him, "listen man Melodie is different, and she's gone through hell in the past with people that have done her wrong and she could never do anything to hurt anyone and right now she's hurting. Turns out the 'stupid bitch' Ronnie told us about on tour was her but he told us completely wrong. Ronnies the bitch, not her and plus he cheated on her with two girls, not just one and he tricked her and humiliated her last night. I found her at the skatepark crying so hard she fainted in my arms. And when she was on the phone talking to her best friend she started to talk about you and you should've saw the way she lit up," Chris lets a smile slip and then fall as he realized what he did. "I'll go talk to her", he says as I pat him on the back. "Lets go", I say nudging him forward until we reach the door that leads outside and I stay a few feet behind. Chris goes to open the door and looks up before he can and stops dead in his tracks and walks away. "Looks to me like she's moved on", he says as he walks past me and I walk up to the door to see Melodie and Vinny just releasing from a kiss. I don't mean to sound mean but maybe that's what Chris needs, a girl that he wants that won't put up with his shit, only time will tell.

Time Skip
It's the day of Cole's concert and Melodie and Vinny have been together for a little bit over a week but tonight her, Chris, and I are going to the concert together. I'm driving to the Melodie's house early so we can go over all the details to make sure everything goes right. I pull up to her apartment and knock on the door which Melodie quickly answers with a towel wrapped around her head and a robe one. She greets me with a smile and a huge hug, "Ryan!", she yells, "Melodie!", I scream back and I pick her up and squeeze her and place her back down. "Thank you thank you thank you so much for agreeing to this!", Melodie squeals out as we walk to her living room, "no problem dude! I'm quite excited. I got her some flowers in the car for her actually. Pink tulips, her favorite like you said", she smiles and gives me a little round of applause. "There's one more thing I forgot to mention", Melodie says as she reaches in a drawer on the side table, oh god what's she got up her sleeve?, my thoughts are quickly answered as Melodie places something on my head. A bow? "It's Cole's birthday and I thought this would be cute", she says in a small voice before she starts pouting, "fine", say with smiling and rolling my eyes and she throws her arms around my neck and embraces me once more. "It's a good thing Cole's really cute", i say under my breath, "Don't tell her that she'll die... on second thought do tell her that, at least she'll die happy", Melodie says walking towards her bedroom. "Give me like 20 mins to get changed and junk. The remote is on the table and the wifi password is ronniesucks666balls", I chuckle, "Chris will be here in like 10 just go ahead and let him in if you don't mind and help yourself to anything in the kitchen", "thanks Mel!" I yell back, "No problem Ry", she responds. I go to the kitchen and grab a RedBull amongst the millions of energy drinks she has everywhere and lounge on the couch for a couple of minutes until I hear the doorbell ring. "Hey man", I say as I let Chris in, "Hey dude where's Melodie?", "finishing getting ready!", she yells back, "hurry up!" he responds jokingly, "yea yea calm your tits", she yells back. It's been over a week since the mishap at the studio and Melodie and Chris have kept things professional and somewhat friendly, no arguments or anything but then again not that much interaction either. A friendly hello from time to time or maybe when she's talking to all of us. Her and Vinny seems just fine though, they're actually quite cute and sadly Chris has been spending 'more time with other friends' which I know translates into fucking Gaia. God I wish he'd quit wasting time with her. I lose myself in the tv on the couch and Chris loses himself to his phone but both our attentions are instantly drawn to Melodie as soon as she walks out. She's wearing a pair of tight leather leggings, one of our shirts with Sam from Trick R Treat with a triangle cut about him to show off her cleavage, and a pair of high heel leather boots. The towel is off her hair now to reveal it has been dyed half red half black like Ash and is curled and she looks like a gothic beauty queen. I snap out of it quicker than Chris does, who looks like he needs a drool bucket, serves him right, I think to myself as I hit him to get his attention. Melodie giggles, "do I look okay?", "you look fantastic", I reply, "you look great little one", Chris replies as she shoots him a glance for calling her that name, "thanks", she simply says to both of us as we head towards the door. Please God let this night go well.