TWENTY-THREE

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After coming home and seeing my dad on the living room couch, I immediately grabbed my jacket and went out again. I'm not in the mood for explanations, I'm not in the mood for lies or making up with him or my mom, I'm just not in the mood for him. I thought that when he left, he'd be gone for long, but I guess my mom really loves him and I can't tell her what to do or who to love and who to hate.

After going into a small alley to take the short cut to Michael's place, two guys in balaclavas come into view, both of them wearing black gloves, all in black matter of fact. Here we go again, problems. Without second thoughts I clench my fists and swiftly punch the guy on the left with my right hand and then turn to punch the other guy with my left. I give him three more punches in his face as he slowly starts to bleed from his nose and lips, I then grab him by his t-shirt and knee him in his stomach, he drops on the floor but the other guy jumps on my back, chocking me with some pipe. 

Loosing my breath, I quickly move backwards so that his back would hit the wall behind us, when it does he grunts in pain and I gasp for oxygen. I pick myself up again and start throwing punches at his face as well. Suddenly another bigger guy comes into view and punches me hard right in the eye making me stumble a few steps backwards. The two guys with balaclavas pick me up and face me in the direction of the other guy. Wait, he's from our school. What does he want from me? 

The guy without the balaclava starts punching me in my stomach while I can't even defend myself because of the two guys holding me on each side. I groan in pain through my clenched teeth, trying to contain it in and not show it too much. After a few more punches in my face, they let me drop to the floor. "Stay away from Melanie" that voice, it's the same one like the guy who attacked me before. Bastards!

After five minutes of just laying there, I pick myself up and start walking to my next destination, which isn't Michael's any more but Melanie's she's good at first aiding me. After a couple of minutes of walking down to hers I get to her door, praying her parents aren't home because if they were to see me like this they'd probably never let me near their daughter. The door opens showing Melanie, thank god.

She gasps and then comes to me with an ice cream tub that she's been eating and pressed it against my jaw making me smile a little, she's so caring. "Dylan, why am I not surprised?" she drags me into her house but I shake my head, "My parents aren't home and you need aiding" as if she read my mind, I walk inside taking my shoes off.

We walk upstairs into the bathroom and I sit on the sink counter again. She bends down to open the cabinet underneath the sink and grabs some cotton wool and a disinfection water. She starts of by lightly dabbing around my nose and cheeks and then moves onto my lips, I wince as she dabs over the bleeding parts. She puts on her focus face not wanting to hurt me more, I laugh and bring my arm around her waist, pulling her closer. She kisses back and puts one of her hands on my ribs and I instantly pull away grunting because of the pain, "Take your shirt off" she commands and I smirk.

"Next time, I'm going to be stitching you up if you don't stop fighting" she says as she inspects my body and the little cuts on my stomach, "Yeah well, it wasn't a knife, he had a ring" I explain not wanting her to worry although she doesn't seem that surprised, kinda like she expects more fights from me almost. She brings her hands to my chest and I back away, "your hands are cold".

"Well I've been eating ice cream before you came here with bruises. Do I even wanna ask?" she says as she cleans my mini cuts from the ring he had on, I shake my head "I'm a popular guy, a lot of people hate me" I lie to her, even though I shouldn't but until I find that son of a bitch and ask him what he wants from me, I'm not going to say anything. "Good thing you're a footballer who can fight then" she says and then goes downstairs leaving me all alone.

She comes back with a packet of ice and hands it over to me, so I put it over my eye, I'm definitely having a black eye after that punch. "So is this going to be a regular thing now?" I furrow my eyebrows, "You know everything that just happened" I smile knowing what she means, "Me getting beaten up? No. Me kissing you? Yeah." I finish my sentence and walk over to her with a smirk on my face, pulling her closer by her hips when unexpectedly someone knocks on the door and I let out a long sigh whilst rolling my eyes. She laughs and walk downstairs as I follow.

She opens the door and Eve comes into view, "Hey, what is he doing here and what happened to him?" she asks as soon as she comes in, "You know you can just ask me instead" I respond to her, "Yeah true but it's self explanatory, your ass lost in a fight" she says as she takes her shoes off and goes into the living room, "I did not lose in a fight"

"Mhm, sure whatever you say" I sigh to her response. She walks upstairs probably going to the bathroom, while me and Melanie go into the kitchen to make some food. She opens the freezer and grabs two pizza's putting them straight onto the tray and into the oven. I open the fridge wanting to look what's inside it, I grab a cardboard box that says pudding and take it over to the kitchen counter where Melanie is making eggs.

Accidentally I squeeze the cardboard and the yellow liquid splashes all over Melanie's t-shirt, "Oh my god, I'm so sorry. I thought it was a pudding" I say making my way over to her and start wiping the liquid off with my hands, "No it's fine" she says and something cracks on top of my head, egg yolks falling down on each side of my ears, "I thought it was raw" she innocently says. "I really did think it was a pudding though" I bicker. "Yeah after you heat it up, idiot"

"Well I'm sorry for not knowing how to make a pudding" I sarcastically say and squeeze the cardboard box tighter, this time on purpose, splashing it right into her face, "Sorry not sorry but you deserved that" I cock my eyebrows, "How did I deserve it?" she asks and I squeeze it again, laughing when she decides to run around the kitchen so she doesn't get splashed again, this is way too fun. "You cracked an egg on my head" I explain, "Right after you threw uncooked pudding at me" her voice comes out from behind the kitchen counter with stools tucked underneath it.

She peeks her head up to see if I was still in position waiting for her to come out, which I am. As soon as she sees me still standing and waiting for her to peek out again she immediately crouches down again, hiding from me behind the counter. "It was an accident, you didn't have to get revenge. Now come out"

"Well I didn't know that and I'd rather not" as she finished her sentence I tip-toed my way over to the back of the counter without her noticing, she then turns around feeling my eyes on her back and jumps out because I scared her, she runs to the back of the kitchen to grab some more eggs being prepared for me to strike again. "I'm not gonna sprinkle you with the pudding any more, okay?" I say as I put the box down onto the counter and put my hands up in surrender and walk my way over to her, she still has an egg in her hand.

She smiles when I slowly start making my way over to her with my hands help up and I notice I have a smirk on my face again. After getting closer to her, I open my arms for her to come and hug me and she does so I wrap my arms around her small body and her t-rex hands find a way around my waist with her head on my chest. We stay like that for a bit, enjoying each others embrace, she then pulls her head away from my chest and looks into my eyes, slowly leaning in. "Well that was fun watching you" a familiar voice echoes through the kitchen making us pull away from each other before even kissing. Second time now, thanks Eve.

We both freeze, looking at Eve leaning against the doorway with her arms folded in front, seconds later I feel another egg crack on my head. I look to my left and see Melanie laughing, "You deserved that" I roll my eyes proceeding to smile as well, "You wanna start cleaning up, your mom is home"

"Oh my god! fu- I mean shit, my mom is home" Melanie grabs a kitchen towel and throws is at me telling me to clean the eggs from my head, panicking a bit too much when she realises she burned the eggs.

"You two having fun I hope?" Melanie's mom comes into view and I smile, "Yeah Melanie, you're having too much fun, who do you think is going to clean this mess?" I tease, "Don't worry mom, he promised to clean everything" Erm, I don't recall. I shake my head at her trying to be smart. "Oh and mom, is it okay if I invite some friends over?" Melanie asks from the kitchen and her mom comes back, "If you clean everything up and won't make any more mess, then I don't see why not, besides I'm going to Eve's house and I'll be back later in the night."

"Okay, thanks mom" she says and gives her a kiss on the cheek, "Okay sweety I'm going, have fun guys!" she gives us a wave and later on we hear the door close. The three of us start cleaning the whole kitchen up and then me and Melanie go upstairs, she changes her t-shirt and I go into the bathroom to wash my hair out. We walk downstairs and Eve already placed the food into the living room while plugging the laptop cable into the tv.

We jump onto the couch, ready to watch some movies when I notice Melanie looking at me in a weird way, "I really hate you" she laughs, "I just got my ass beaten up and that's what you say to me?" I comeback, "Hey, don't use that as an excuse or I will punch you as well" before I can make a witty comment again, the door bell rings and Melanie gets up to open the door.

Seconds later I see Michael, Johnny, Josh and Alex enter the living room, "Heard you got into a fight, why didn't you call?" Michael asks while fist bumping me. Michael was always the one who cared about everyone in our squad, always the one to come to help. "I'm alright, I promise" I reassure him and he sits down next to me while the others sit on the other couch.

"Great, now where do I sit?" Eve asks when she comes out from the kitchen and into the living room again, being the last one to come she's probably going to have to sit on the floor. "You can sit on my lap if you want" Michael smoothly says while tapping his knee and I lightly laugh, "Why don't you two just date already?" I joke around, "I'm working on it" he winks at Eve who's cheeks are now red.

"Anyone up for superhero movies?" Melanie asks and puts something on as we all begin to watch, eat, joke around and talk. I think it's going to be a pretty chilled night.

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