I told Maya and Linda what happened with Peter and they went all Mexican and started yelling about how they were going to track him down and shank his ass. I laughed and told them that I think someone else was going to take care of it.
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[Nathan's Point of View]
Two hours after I left Melinda's place I was waiting in a dark alley for the man to come. I had the envelop in my hands. I wasn't going to let it go.
A car pulled up and the tinted window went down to reveal your usual mob. He was bald and his name was Lucky because he had a birth mark on his face that looked like a clover.
I handed over the envelop with the money and another envelop with Peter's information like his address and a picture.
Lucky counted the money and smirked.
"Dead or alive?"
"Alive... barely." I gritted my teeth thinking of what he did to Melinda.
Lucky smirked. "I'll let you know when I have him."
"No stabbing, just a beat down and then call me." I was getting in touch with my dark side and it was hard to come back but I would do anything for Melinda.
The panic in her voice when she first called me set chills to the very core of my soul and when I found her on the floor, it was even worse. She looked so helpless and the Melinda I knew wasn't. I knew she put up a fight because her knuckles were and as she said she kicked him in the face but Peter will always be stronger.
"All right, there's no fun in that but you're the boss."
[Melinda's Point of View]
I was finally able to get out of that room when it was time for dinner. Once again it was fun to have them over. I was so used to eating alone that I forgot what it was like to be with them. My mom started talking about decorating my place and their place across the hallway. It was almost exciting to talk about it.
Once dinner was over we actually played board games. Monopoly, scrabble and scene it. It was safe to say that the twins and I won. After that we talked about old times. They brought up embarrassing moments and so did I.
"God, remember when Melinda was a major N'Sync fan?" Linda said.
I groaned and hid my face with my hands.
"Baby, bye, bye!" Jeff and Brian sang together.
"Shut up!" I muttered at them.
"C'mon, we're just playing." Jeff smirked.
"Well how about the time when you were obsessed with Britney Spears and you sang 'Oops I did it again' in front of a mirror and Rodrigo and I walked in to see that little show?" I smirked.
Jeff blushed. "You guys didn't knock."
"Ha!" Brian pointed to Jeff.
"You, Brian, was dancing to Cher's 'Believe' with a brush in your hands and with a wig on."
Everyone laughed. Brian blushed.
"Rodrigo made sure I never lived that down." He chuckled.
"I want a replay." Maya said with her puppy eyes.
"No, you don't." I laughed.
"C'mon." Everyone else said.
"Well, we can see this is young people fun." My dad said getting up with my mom and they left the apartment.
Yay, we could be ourselves.
"Okay! Okay!" Brian said. "Do you have any wigs?" Brian asked me and I laughed.
"Why would I have wigs?"
Brian shrugged.
"I'll see what I can find." Brian jolted out of the living room and went through my apartment to look for stuff.
"This is going to be hilarious." Jeff said putting an arm around Linda.
"Am I going to need underwear?" Victor asked.
I chuckled. "Heck yeah, I almost peed myself when Rodrigo and I caught him."
Ten minutes later Brian walked back in one of my dressed it was one that stretched but it was still tight on him. He found a wig, I think I had it in the back of the closet in my old stuff. He had my brush in his hands.
Everyone laughed. I laughed until my stomach hurt.
"Well? Where's my music?" Brian asked in a high pitch voice.
I limped my way over to my I-Stereo and put it my I-Pod, yes I had Cher in my I-Pod. I scrolled it until it was in the song and pressed play. The beat started and Brian started dancing, at least he tried. He couldn't really move in that dress.
"No matter how hard I try
You keep pushing me aside
And I can't break through
There's no talking to you
So sad that you're leaving
Takes time to believe it
But after all is said and done
You're going to be the lonely one, Ohh Oh
Do you believe in life after love
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough, now
Do you believe in life after love
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough, now."
Brian took Maya and Maya started dancing with him. God it was so funny.
"What am I supposed to do
Sit around and wait for you
And I can't do that
There's no turning back
I need time to move on
I need love to feel strong
'Cause I've had time to think it through
And maybe I'm too good for you, Ohh Oh
Do you believe in life after love
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough, now
Do you believe in life after love
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough, now
But I know that I'll get through this
'Cause I know that I am strong
I don't need you anymore
Oh I don't need you anymore
I don't need you anymore
No I don't need you anymore
Do you believe in life after love
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough, now
Do you believe in life after love
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough, now
Do you believe in life after love
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough, now
Do you believe in life after love
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough, now."
[Nathan's Point of View]
My knuckles were screaming bloody murder but my rage blinded my pain. My knuckles made contact another time with Peter's cheek.
Peter spat blood as I took two steps back and looked at the damage I caused him. His left eye was swollen shut and his lip was bust open. Yet, he still chuckles.
"What you don't realize is that Melinda and I were meant for each other." Peter said through his swollen lips.
"Last time I checked she wakes up next to me and not you." I growled at him.
"What do you know? How about when you're not there, mate?" Peter tried to toy with my mind but I knew how strongly Melinda felt about me and I had no doubts about her feelings towards me. "You were gone four years, mate." He smirks. "Has she told you about Rodrigo's love confession?"
Firstly I was angered by his mention of Rodrigo's name in such a disrespectful way. Did he actually expect me to be jealous of Rodrigo? I always kind of knew of Rodrigo's feelings towards Melinda. A man doesn't remain a friend with such a great girl and not grow deep feelings eventually.
"I already knew and fuck you for going as low as that." I hissed towards him.
"Did she tell you she slept with him?" Peter was now lying I could tell because I've known him long enough to know when he was lying.
"Peter, nothing is going to work. I trust Melinda's word and something like that I'm sure she would've told me now shut the fuck up you fucking rapist!" I ignored the pain and punched him again and again.
After another half hour I was done. I told them to take him back and dump him somewhere. I warned Peter to stay away from Melinda that she was going to have people following her around all day and night to make sure she was safe.
I went back to my apartment. Once again I was alone. I went to the bathroom and washed off my bloody knuckles it was my blood mixed with Peter's. I looked myself in the mirror and I felt a flashback to before I met Melinda and my eyes looked empty as they did now.
Have I really gone backwards? I was a heartless killer, heck, if my father didn't want Melinda alive when I first kidnapped her she would've been dead the first time she tried to escape. Was that harsh? Yeah but it's true.
Where would I be without Melinda? I would still be the heartless bastard that used girls as tissues. I turned on the shower and took off my clothes and stepped inside the shower. I loved as the water kind of washed away the bad thoughts. I wanted back to before I found out Melinda lied because if she can lie once than she can lie again.
I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her because even just a few days without her kisses and 'I love you's I feel like I'm about to break like I'm about to go insane. It's scary to think that a single woman held such power over me.
It was scary and comforting at the same time because that meant that Melinda is truly my soul mate and I would do anything to be with her. I wouldn't care if she killed the Pope. All I needed was to know that she loved me and that would be enough for me.
I stepped out after an hour.
I took a towel and dried myself. My house phone started ringing and then my cell phone started ringing. I checked my cell first. It was Melinda and then I checked the house and it was from the office.
I looked at the two of them and decided to call back the office. I answered Melinda's call.
[Peter's Point of View]
"That fucker is going to pay." I growled as I looked in the mirror and saw that I was too fucked up.
I winced as I applied the antibiotic cream. After I was done I walked to my house phone and dialed Lucy's cell phone number.
It rang twice before her shriek voice answered.
"What?" She snapped.
"Don't fucking talk to me like that. Come to my house, there's been a slight change of plan." I hissed at her. She knew better than to back talk to me.
"O-okay," She muttered and we both hung up.
I dialed Devlin's cell phone number and it rang three times before he answered.
"What?" He said in a monotone voice.
"Meeting at my house, change of plans."
"I can't." He said.
"Where are you?" I asked curious as to why he couldn't.
"At a friend, her name is Melinda and I'm visiting."
I sighed. "It's important you need to be here... how is she?" I asked.
Devlin chuckles lightly. "Good. Fine, I'll be there. It better be good."
"Trust me, mate, it's good."
Thirty minutes later Lucy and Devlin arrived at my apartment. Both went to the living room and sat.
"You have something to drink, lad?" Devlin said getting up and walked to the bar.
"Help yourself." I said sarcastically.
"Thanks, I will." He smirked and I rolled my eyes.
"What the hell happened to you, Peter?" Lucy said. She had been giving me the stink eye since she got here.
"Nathan is what fucking happened." I growled.
Devlin laughed. "Nathan does have a mean right hook."
"Did he find out?! Does he know I was in on the plan?!" Lucy got up and started to panic.
I groaned. "If he would've known I would be dead, stupid, now sit down!"
Lucy huffed and sat down and crossed her legs.
"Then, do tell us, why dear old Nathan left you like a boxer after a twelve round?" Devlin grinned as he took a sip of his whiskey.
"I... attacked, you could say, Melinda and I guess she called him after she kicked me out."
Devlin raises an eyebrow. "Attack? Physically or sexually?"
"Sexually."
"You tried to fucking rape her?!" Devlin seemed a little too bothered about this.
"I lost control of my temper, all right?" I shot back at him.
"You're an idiot." Devlin shot back with venom. "You've ruined the plan, now Melinda won't fall for you, dumbass no matter how badly Nathan messes up."
I smirked.
"Oh I might have a solution to our problem." I smiled widely and winced when my split lip burned.
Lucy chuckled. "What is your plan? Do I still use the roofies?"
I nod. "It's part of the plan. Make sure it happens when Melinda's ankle heels and she's able to walk."
"Why does she need to walk?" Lucy asked.
"Because knowing Nathan he'll chase after her and Melinda needs to runaway for my plan to work, all right?" I said in a baby tone voice and she glared at me and huffed again.
"It was just a question."
"A dumb one." I said darkly.
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[Melinda's Point of View]
The next day I woke up earlier than usual, I had a nightmare about Peter. I still can't believe he tried to rape me. Four years of close friendship was down the drain and I failed to see the dark side of him. I think I refused to see it because I experienced so much with Peter.
He helped me through so much that I refused to think he was some kind of crazed stalker. I'm not really mad at him, I feel more betrayed than anything. He had my absolute trust and he shattered it.
My family and friends left me again alone but before they left Nathan came back. As of right now we're sitting in the living room. We're watching TV and it's comfortable yet awkward at the same time.
"Who sent the flowers?" Nathan pointed to the tulips that I totally forgot about.
"Oh, um, I don't know. It wasn't Peter, that's for sure. He said he didn't."
Nathan got up and walked over to the tulips and picked up the card that was in the flowers.
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May," Nathan walked over to me and sat beside me as he continued to read it.
"And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, and often is his gold complexion dimm'd; and every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; but thy eternal summer shall not fade." His blue eyes looked at mine.
"Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
when in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee." He finished. I don't know if it was the accent or-no it was the accent that made it sound so beautiful and the way the words came out so smoothly and naturally that was so beautiful and heartwarming.
"Whoever he is picked a wonderful sonnet by Shakespeare." Nathan said setting the card down on the coffee table. "And you don't want to find out who sent it?"
I shook my head. "Like I told Devlin, I have enough problems."
Nathan seemed bothered that I brought up Devlin.
"What's wrong?"
"I still think I should've been there." He sighed.
I chuckled. "Even if we weren't mad it would've happened because you were at work, speaking of which, why aren't you there?"
He smiled. "I cleared my whole week to take care of you."
I smiled back at him. We were having a moment. That moment when we both look into each other's eyes and the world stops and the only thing that mattered was us and the magnetic pull we felt towards each other.
"That's sweet." I spoke.
"You're very important to me, Melinda. And I took care of Peter."
I blinked in surprise. "What do you mean?" I asked.
He cupped my cheek and caressed it. "Don't worry about him. He won't bother you again."
"You're not going to..." I didn't finish my sentence. I couldn't.
"No... but I taught him a lesson." Nathan said his eyes got a darker shade of blue a dangerous one.
"This isn't like you." I said in a soft tone.
"It is me, a side you knew before we... fell in love."
"You mean, cold Nathan that kidnapped innocent girls?" I joked but he didn't seem to like it.
"I don't regret it because with you I found something beautiful and worth living for. Now, I want to know why Peter mattered so much to you."
"He was my best friend. He was there for me when I needed him."
"Exactly when?" He asked.
It was time to come fully clean. I left out a lot of parts when I told him my life when I thought he was in a coma. I sighed deeply and mentally prepared myself to relive the experience. A dark side of me that I buried with therapy.
"I was a wreck. I drank too much. I didn't stop and honestly... I didn't want to. It was a dark and cold place without you, Nathan." I didn't look at him in the eyes. "My drinking got so bad that it got to a point where my friends and family actually had an intervention for me." I laughed a little.
"I came back from a club... drunk and there they were waiting for me with two big guys in white uniform. My dad put me in rehab and I went to therapy for a couple of weeks. I got my act together and went back to school and got my nursing degree and stuff." I finished and finally looked at him.
He did look like the old Nathan. He was distant. This was Nathan but it was like I was meeting him all over again, no, it was like having a flashback to the day he pointed a gun to my face and had no remorse to hit me if he had to. I started to wonder if I did that to him or was it what Peter did.
"You were that affected by me?"
"I freaking love you, Nathan, it hurt to know that I caused you to be in that coma. I thought I was never going to see your beautiful eyes again and when I first saw you I felt relieve at first because I was so happy you were good but then... I felt..."
"Betrayed." Nathan finished.
"Like I said before, I felt like I wasn't worthy for the truth that you didn't love me enough to tell me-"
"Melinda, I love you so much that I didn't want to hurt you. I wasn't strong enough. I barely moved and spoke. I was a mess and I didn't want to be a-"
"Burden, I know. But I love you and always will. It wouldn't matter if you ended up with no legs and arms I would still love you and remain by your side because with you I, too, discovered something beautiful."
"I screwed up." He admitted.
"So have I and that's what makes us human. We're not in some telenovela (soap opera) where problems are fixed fast. We have to work on our relationship. Learn to trust each other again because that's how it's done in the real world."
He smiled and in his eyes I saw the Nathan that I love the Nathan who gave me kisses that left me weak to the knees instead of scaring me to death.
"I love it when you're right, love. We have to work on trust and it won't be easy or fast but we'll make it because our love is strong." He leaned down and I thought he was going to kiss me but he only removed a strand from my face. "I love you, but we're going to have to take things slow."
I nodded.
This was going to be harder than I thought.
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Christmas Eve came around too soon. It was only a week away and I still had some things to get for Mike, Alondra and Marcela. My ankle was a lot better and I was back at work. The baby girl of the mother who died went to adoption. I felt really bad because the little girl literally had no family but soon some nice family would pick her and give her a good life. The adoption agreed to keep me updated about her monthly.
Nathan and I have been getting back on track. We kissed a couple of times and
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