Stepping into the unknown.

Back To It

"Melody Aletheia Astraea. Tell me that you did not drive all the way up to see me. Only to tell me that I can't come with you." Her eyes seemed to be taking me in as my body was tired and a little worse for wares.

"Look, you have work to do. And people to do. Come on it will be fine." I wasn't taking it. When she and Andy walked into my house she held a smile that was contagious and he held a face that told me I was going to get an earful. Clearly he didn't believe what I had told her and it made sense but hurt. As soon as I began to shout though, I had never seen a man try and be a wallflower so hard in my life.

"I have just closed my cases and I can handle more than a few hours without sex. Especially if it means I can be there for my sister, my sister that I didn't see for half a decade because I thought that the second I tried to talk to her face to face she would flip on me. Please, this is your wedding and if I am honest this is the closest I will ever come to a wedding, please, let me be there and let me do this. I am your maid of honour and you cannot go alone to pick a dress, no if ands or buts because a husband can't go and I love you so it has to be me." A smirk took to her face as I spoke to her and slowly, with a lot of displeasure she agreed to it.

"Fine. Wait, closest you will come to marriage?" I gave a nod and felt my eyes fill. I hadn't told Apollo that I knew yet and that was the next task to face for me. Telling him that I knew we could never marry.

"I'll tell you later. Don't mention it to Apollo because I want to tell him when he takes me out on the 'secret' date tomorrow night." She laughed at how I was able to know his plans so well. He wasn't fabulous at his keeping secrets from me because could read him like a book.

Soon after that I phoned in and took a day off of my work. I wasn't needed for anything, no meetings and the reports were filled in as I went so I had no pending work to do. Then I moved to the kitchen and started lunch.

"I still don't trust you." I nodded slowly and saw the kitchen door close behind him.
"She has gone up to put our things in the spare room and to get washed. We have an hour or two. Now, tell me why you suddenly got in touch with her and not before." It was bound to happen but he had a lot of guts to do it so quickly. He was just like Mel in that way, direct and also caring of those he loved.

"I had been thinking about her a lot. She was in all four corners of my mind constantly and then at work I was dealing with a case where a girl had died and her name was Melissa. Her family called her Mel and I couldn't stop the constant thoughts of just one call. Slowly I accepted that I needed her in my life and that I wanted her to need me in her life, as just a friend even. I missed hearing her nattering on and well, it made sense. I had been feeling that way since Neil and I would normally turn to Luciana but she and I had fallen out. She would tell me that if I mattered to my sister that she would call me. It made sense, I had tried calling Mel and all the others so many times but it wouldn't even ring so I thought I had been blocked. Turns out that Neil had blocked them all on my phone and I had no clue, it wasn't until I went to call her that I saw the sign of a red circle with a cross in it. My old phone wasn't fancy enough to show that when I tried to call." He still held some concerns. That was written all over his face.

"Why not visit?" I bit my lip and felt my eyes sting a little.

"If they weren't picking up my calls why would they want me to visit? Besides, when I was leaving they all spoke of moving and Neil told me that they had." I was pleading for him to just accept it. I wanted to get along with him and to be able to talk in a sibling way to him.

"Neil seems to come up a lot. If he is so important where is he now?" I went wide eyed and smiled as he spoke. She really hadn't told him a thing unless I had told her it was alright. One thing that wasn't okay for her to tell him was about my past.