𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚//𝙖𝙛𝙞

six

melody

"Best friends," I corrected in attempt to make myself feel better.

Ashton grinned and pulled me into a tight hug before looking back at Mike and Crystal. "Best friends."

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Even after talking to everyone and having an amazing time, I still couldn't shake my disappointment from earlier. I felt like I was getting friend zoned left and right.

Was I used to people not wanting to date me? Yes. It's not like I was hot stuff in school really. I did date one guy before, though. Jonas. He was nice and all, but just irritating. He did what it took to get his way. That's why I broke things off with him after six months of dealing with his crap.

I started to get tired and yawned more often. I tuned out of the conversation about whatever everyone was talking about and leaned into Ashton. At this point, I wasn't thinking if it would be awkward or not. I was just tired.

ashton

I looked down at Melody who was leaned into me, eyes shut. I smiled lightly at the girl, and repositioned myself and her self so that my arm was around her. She was now sound asleep in my grasp.

"So, Ashton," Luke smirked. "How are you and Melody?"

I couldn't tell if he was referring to us in general, or as in a relationship. I went with the second route. "We aren't dating," I told him.

Luke laughed in disbelief. "Yeah, right. She's literally sleeping in your arms right now wearing your clothes."

Dang. That did sound like we were together.

"Why can't you just leave us alone?" I groaned.

Luke laughed. "You know very well she likes you."

I furrowed my eyebrows. I never thought that Melody liked me, well in that way. I looked down at the sleeping girl, who cuddled into my side. She couldn't like me like that, right?

"No, I don't," I told him. "She doesn't like me like that."

Calum rolled his eyes. "Keep telling yourself that, mate."

I rolled my eyes back at him. "Nobody knows anything for sure. Can you all just let me have a friend for a hot second?"

"I bet Sam will know," Calum brought up.

"What? No, don't ask Sam," I frowned. "You guys, we're invading her space!" I motioned to Melody.

Calum typed on his phone furiously before showing me the receipts.

"See?" I said. "She doesn't like me."

Calum shook his head. "Really? 'That is classified information'? She couldn't be more obvious."

I rolled my eyes. "Can we please just leave the situation alone? God, it's not our business anyways."

Crystal nodded. "He's right, guys. Don't bother them about their stuff, okay?"

Everyone sighed and nodded.

"Thank you, Crystal," I gave her a tired smile.

After about ten minutes, I realized that I should probably try and get Melody home. If she was sleeping already, she probably should at least be in her bed.

"Hey, guys," I said when there was a break in the conversation. "I think I'm gonna head out now."

Luke frowned. "Already?"

I shrugged. "It's been hours. Besides, Melody is already sleeping. She needs to get home."

Sierra nodded. "You're good, don't let Luke guilt you into staying."

I laughed lightly. "Thanks."

Now, how was I supposed to get Melody up? I didn't want to wake her, because she seemed to be in a very comfortable slumber. I turned slightly, and held her with both arms before she could fall over or something. She began to stir, and was semi conscious now.

"What are you doing?" she murmured, her voice raspy and confused.

"Keep sleeping, princess," I whispered, trying to soothe her back to sleep.

I figured the easiest way to do this was to just carry her in front of me.

"Lift your legs really quick," I told her.

"What?" she rasped.

"Like, wrap your legs around me."

She lifted her legs up and I held under her butt. Her arms were around my neck, and she fell back asleep on my shoulder. I slowly stood up, grabbed my keys from my pocket, and took Melody's purse from the table and hung it on my arm.

"Bye guys," I waved slightly, but it was a small wave because my hand was still holding Melody up.

"Best friend goals," Crystal laughed.

I carried Melody over to my car and buckled her into the passenger seat.

I drove over to Melody's house, and then realized that the door was locked and I need her keys. I searched a bit through her purse, but only found tissues, gum, perfume, old receipts, and a bunch of random stuff. All I knew was it was not keys.

I sighed and drove to my house. It wouldn't be a problem if she slept at my place, since I slept at hers last night. When we got there, I walked into my room and laid her on my bed carefully. After brushing my teeth and changing, I laid down and fell asleep shortly after. It was a bit of an early bedtime, but we had stayed up so late the night before.

a/n okay so i'm really freaking excited for the next chapter just because UGH you will see it should be out at the latest tomorrow but let's be really probably today idk if anyone is reading this but if you are thank you very much i love you.
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