Move My Way || Michael Clifford ||

Different

*Ashley's POV*

Melanie had gone home a couple hours ago and I was just lying on the white carpet in my room trying to think, admiring the lavender colored walls and white sealing. When there was a sudden knock on my door and Jack comes in.

“What’s wrong?” He asked lying down beside me.

“Why do you ask?”

“Well normally you would be crying over some episode of whatever show you’re watching.”

“I don’t do that” I hiss at him.

“Fine you don’t but there is something going on, I noticed since you and Mel got off the car.”

“Well… it’s girl stuff and it shouldn’t matter to you.” I sit up, getting uncomfortable.

“When it comes to you and Mel, it matters, a lot.” He said, I could feel his gaze on my back while I stared at the wall in front of me that had different pictures of Joanna, Melanie, Jackson and I, some others with mom and dad others of my childhood. “Will you please tell me what’s going on?” He interrupted.

“I-I don’t think I’m the one who should be telling you this….” I hesitated, “but you know Seth and Mel don’t get along right, well she’s just looking out for me and wants the best for me so yeah she’s just trying her best to, you know, me to stop liking him.” You’re making no sense. I look down at Jack who had a confused face.

“Could you try and speak English. I seriously didn’t understand what you’re trying to say here, and please be honest with me.” He got up and sat in front of me looking me straight in the eyes.

“Well…the thing is that…Seth isn’t a good person,” he rolls his eyes at me, “don’t make fun of me, anyways he also happens to be Mel’s neighbor,” I pause for a reaction from him but he just nods, so far so good. “She was telling me that he always has a different girl at his place and that every time he throws a party he’s hooking up numerous times during the parties, hitting on every girl he can. I mean how can guys do that? It’s so disgusting, like aren’t you afraid you will get STD’s or something like that, I swear if I would have known this before I would had never laid eyes on him. What did I even see in him? He’s a pig and then he’s always harassing Mel and it jus-” I cut myself out covering my mouth realizing what I just said while getting lost in my thoughts, stupid, stupid, stupid you had to open your mouth and now he knows, great he’s gonna want to know what exactly is happening. Jackson stared at me his eyes getting a deeper shade of blue.

“What did you say?” he calmly asks.

“That Seth is a pig for doing what he does?” I came out more like a question.

“That does what?”

"He plays around with girls like it’s nothing.” I say but he just stares at me. I sigh “Okay, that he harasses Melanie.” I bite my lip not really wanting to know what’s going on through his head at the moment, his face started to get red and his hands formed into fists.

After a long silence he finally said “Harassing Melanie….how long have you known?” he asked me dead serious.

“Well she always told me about this guy who would always bother her and stuff but she-”

“What ‘stuff’” he interrupted me.

“Stuff like whenever he would see her he goes and hugs her and always tries to kiss her and he’s saying that if she wants to or not that she’s going to be his one day,” I think I was saying more than I should be but he deserves to know the truth. “He has even gotten into her room and just stayed there watching her sleep, she knows because he once sent her a picture of when he had done so, and once he even tried to rape her when he knew that no one else was home.” I could see the anger in his face and he just got up, he looked ready to punch something or more like someone. I had never seen Jack so furious, it scared me to know that he can get like this.