The 'First' Girlfriend

Before: 10

Guys I'm sorry it's so late again. I'm on vacation so I'm uploading on my phone so any misspelling and format issues will be fixed before the next update! So sorry :/ this chapter took longer as I'm trying to outline the before chapters I might do a time jump... how we feeling about that.... ?

edited note: format fixed :) 

*unedited*

Jasper 

I wasn't allowed to see Melody after the exam. I waited for her outside the nurse's office but was sent away when they put her on concussion watch and October to sleep for her dislocated ankle. I spent the rest of the day in an empty classroom where Instructor Holden came in very few hours to check in on my process on a series of worksheets. October needed to see where I was academically before she could figure out a curriculum so after my exciting day of watching my girlfriend kick ass, I was reminded this was still a school.

When I reached my new dorm, I thought I was going to fall asleep soundly. A long and hot shower later, my body ached in ways I never knew it could, but sleep didn't come. Well actually that was a lie. Sleep was calling my name, but I fought the urge to rest for so long that my eyes started to sting. If I had a nightmare here, with teachers just a few doors away, they wouldn't leave me alone and they definitely wouldn't let me stay at a spy school. The panic of getting found out was driving me crazy. I tossed and turned on my bed. I tried to listen to music and calm myself down, but nothing was working.

I wish I wasn't sober.

At that thought, I felt sick. Before coming here, I kept telling myself I had it under control. But then my school was attacked and Dylan...

Melody might be awake, if the concussion wasn't as severe as they thought. I pulled my new phone and my fingers pulled up her name.

Despite my urge to talk to Mel, I hesitated.

We had no time to ourselves to talk about last night. It felt like it was months ago. I don't remember all of my first introduction to Reyna's, but I remembered her face. The look of panic as she tried to pull me away and her hurt expression of whatever bullshit was coming out of my drunken mouth.

You up?

The second the message was read, my phone started vibrating with her photo.

"Are you okay?"

The worry laced in her voice caused my chest to tighten. She should've sounded as tired as I felt. 

"I should be asking you that. How's the concussion?"

"Nothing I can't handle," she brushed it off, turning the conversation back to me. "Why are you up at 3 a.m.?"

I laid on back on my bed. "Oh no reason..." I said nonchalantly. "I just wanted to talk to you." 

Melody sighed deeply through the phone, and I knew I wasn't fooling her for a second. And this time she wasn't going to drop it.

"You showed up drunk, Jasper. We need to talk about it." I heard her breathing for a few moments waiting for me to answer.

"Are you mad at me?"

"I'm disappointed," she finally admitted. Which was way, way worst. "I thought you agreed you'd try training and if that wasn't working, why didn't you tell me?"

"It's not that it's not working..." I muttered. That was true. The past few weeks I spent training with Dylan while Melody was busy was helping... but I couldn't fight the nightmares in a gym.