I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy ...

Chapter 5 - Lovesick Melody

When Maddie had said 'We need to get out of here' I couldn't have agreed more, but the problem still faced us 20 minutes later. The barking outside the bathroom door had subsided to nothing more than a slight growl every now and then. I pictured my life and all the good I had experienced believing it would all be over in a short time when the ex returned.

I slid down into the tub to take a seat. The side had become very painful to sit on after the first 10 minutes plus my foot was still throbbing.

Maddie was still perched on the toilet her head held a loft on her hand. She had a faraway look as though she was trying to come up with a brilliant plan to get us out. (Well that's what I hoped she was thinking.)

I sunk lower into the tub and turned so now I was sitting as though I was ready to take a bath which didn't sound too bad at the time actually. I reached down to my foot where it still throbbed from its collision with the cabinet. I untied my shoe and pulled it off gently seeing a bloody sock emerge. Great, I thought. I threw my shoe aside and set my head back in the tub looking up and thinking 'why me God?' I stole a glance over at Maddie who hadn't changed positions for quite some time.

"Well at least you got the pictures," I commented trying to shed some light on what seemed to be a hopeless situation.

Maddie turned her head to me. At first her expression expressed loathing or even true hatred towards me, but it quickly changed to a smile which turned into full force laughter. She threw her head up and before long tears started to fall from her eyes. She wiped them away while clutching her stomach in deep breaths.

I gave a small smile feeling terrified. Now that I watched her double over in fits of laughter again I realized I had never heard her laugh before. The first time we met I had barely caught her name before we jumped into bed, but now…now I saw Maddie…who was laughing.

"Patrick," she said taking deep breaths and wiping her eyes once more. "Look at you."

I looked away from her and down at me. I guess I could see the comedy in my appearance. I was after all sitting in a bath tub with a lump on my head and one shoe on.

I heard Maddie give a sigh. I looked over at her and she shook her head slowly making her blond hair move back in forth in its ponytail. "Let me help you," she said gesturing to my foot. She got up from the toilet and headed to a cabinet above the sink. She obviously knew the bathroom because two seconds later she was back with a first aid kit. She sat on the side of the tub and immediately reached for my foot.

I smiled shyly as she hoisted my foot on the side of the tub and pulled off my sock. It was discarded on the floor as she gazed at my bloody toe.

"How did this happen?" She asked examining it carefully.

I chuckled myself and answered. "When you heroically pulled me into this bathroom."

Maddie looked at me and gave a sorry expression and pulled out some ointment to clean my wound.

I felt slightly awkward as I watched Maddie tend to my 'battle scar'. This girl I knew nothing about was suddenly about to become so much to me. I wasn't going to lie and say I wasn't scared because I was terrified. In my life I had always had the power to choose who I wanted close to me. I had been able to choose my friends and my, shall we say lovers, but now here was this girl. I hadn't really 'chosen' her if you call our one night stand a decision making process, but now this had happened and I guess something else chose her for me.

Maddie's crystal eyes gazed down at her project before finishing by selecting a band-aid to place over the cut. She smiled at her work like she was proud of it and packed the things back in the first aid kit.