Joey
Joey held me close to like he was afraid I would change my mind and go back for Jason if he left me alone. I knew this as I also knew it was pointless to struggle against Joey he was like a brick wall and he didn't budge . Jason was so thoroughly humiliated he didn't want anything to do with Kimberly as he finally accepted their relationship was over and not up for negotiations.
Usually before I lost my temper I would confine in Erinn or Ashley not the mean girl Ashley or the Ashley that was my elementary nemesis. As apparently the name Ashley was popular name .
I had my coven friend Ashley and Joey and Kimberly when we all hung out.
Ashley had problems at home as her uncle was hurting her and her and her mother had a strange relationship about it . Joeys mother was insane in the medical version and Kimberly was being abused by Jason and too poor to be in the position to think about defending herself. We were all a little band of misfits and misery.
But Erinn she was normal. She believed in Jesus and her light was so bright I didn't want to dim her goals with my dysfunctionality. Erinn was talented first chair in flute and she had gotten accepted to a prestigious private IB school she was destined for by the end of the semester.
She was always good to me and when she was around me the two classes we had she always made me not want to bother her with problems she couldn't relate to . Her family was so close knit. Always supportive. Went to every game, to church. I felt my drama would damage her and I liked my friend pure and good.
Joey held me on the bench next to the cafeteria as it looked like we were a couple the way he held my shoulder in place.
" Mel I know something is going on and I know it's hard to explain because you not the one to want to endulge your problems. But you have been angry and I don't like it." Said Joey as he looked at Melina in worried eyes.
" It's complicated." Replied Melina. She didn't want to have to explain to him about Larue . The fact she was meeting a strange man in the woods that hunted her and borderline stalked her for years was not a subject to explain to an over protective Joey.
" Everything is complicated but you don't just pick fights . Usually you stay of of things that causes trouble. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes maybe I would think it was a rumor." Said Joey as he bore into melina's soul like he could see through her skin she hid behind.
" Maybe that's just it. Maybe I need to stop staying out of things. Maybe it's time I stop being the sister to the bad reputation McNally's and let them see who they are messing with." Said Melina as she tried to look braver than she felt but the way Joey looked at her as a corner of his mouth raised in a smirk .
" What's so damn funny. I'm serious. I'm a bad chick. Umm. Girl wow that sounded dirty and immature. I'm not someone to be messed with that's better." Melina said as she tried to say it with complete conviction.
" You having fun over there debating how to redo your reputation. " Laughed Joey as Melina rolled her eyes at him not taking her seriously.
" Look mel . You don't have to start fights to get people off of you. You just have to make them think your crazy and it's like preppy repellent. Works like a charm. I've been using this recipe for years now." Joked joey as Melina shook her head .
" It's different I'm a Mcnally. I am universally screwed just being alive. I get called horrible names for no reason other than I am a Mcnally. The way I see it if I'm bad news I'm going to give them bad news." Said Melina as Joey looked behind Melina momentarily distracted at the noise of Jason leaving the cafeteria as Kimberly trying to sooth him and he pushing her away from him.
Melina jerked to jump up as she saw what Joey was looking at as he held her arm at the elbow as he looked at her to leave it alone. Melina jerked again and Joey pulled her back down beside him.
When Melina realized Joey wasn't going to let her go she surrendered as Jason walked past the two in a rage. Jason looked at Melina and Joey and opened his mouth to say something them moved on past down the hallway. Kimberly looked out of place in the hallway as she stood. The bell rang above as joey stood Melina on her feet.
" Come on mel class calls and we don't want you to get into anymore trouble. " He said as Melina did wonder why no one went and go any teachers during her fight. She was still invisible enough not to get into trouble for a lunch room fight.
Kimberly walked looking lost as for a minute there Jason was all she knew. Joey stopped feeling Melina look back at Kimberly. Then he wanted her over as she walked with her hands folded towards us as he walked both girls to class.
Melina sat in class thinking about what happened today as she knew Joey was right and she hated when he was right. The girls snickered about Brittany's having a pregnancy scare over the weekend as she was friends with Ashleigh as she was a pregnant eighth grader.
Melina was in fashion and child development class as that was an elective like home economics but with fashion. Melina had been designing her own clothes since her sisters gave her tragic clothes with inappropriate drawings on them and they cut jeans to fit them since they were shorter than Melina .
Melina made do with needed and thread to make clothes for her.so fashion and sewing was a hobby since the stop cooking at the school when the lab almost burned down over a bad cake recipe years prior that her sister Mia McNally caused according to rumors.
Melina sat at the table as the chatter of two girls and the only guy in this class sat beside Melina. You know the type join a class for girls to get some quality female time with any girl of his choice.
Melina was in thought when he touched her arm to get her attention as the other girls were waiting for him to start his antics.
He was decent to Melina not exactly her type as he was a pervert.
" Hey so I heard that if you have hair on your hands that is a sign you masterbate . Seriously see if you have hair on your hands." He said as he tried to keep a straight face as half of the girls examined their hands in response as he busted out laughing.
Melina looked at the stupid girls as they walked right into his perverted jokes. She didn't know why guys always say beside her but every class it was a guy he made himself at home beside Melina without permission. He laughed as the girls hit him for the crude joke .
" You must not masterbate ." He asked amused at the lack of reaction Melina made to his joke.
" Do you know what masterbation is?" He asked as the room turned to Melina.
Melina was feeling uncomfortable with the sexual question given her history with sex. She knew it was sexual but didn't know exactly what the purpose of it was.
" Do you know how to masterbate ? I can give you tips." He continued as the conversation hit weirder.
" It's where you touch your privates and he made a motion of jerking off as something snapped in Melina as she stood up abruptly and had to get out of there like she had a memory or what he was describing.
" Whoa chill. I was just playing with you." He said placing his hand on Melina's leg .
" Don't touch me. Keep your hands off of me." Melina snapped as the room was all looking at her now as she grabbed her bag and stormed out of the class room. Melina ran under the stairs in the hallway as she slid down the wall to calm down.