Study hall
Melina knew her mother's grasp on her freedom was subjective to her insane reasoning of why she did anything if it wasn't self motivated. Melina was pissed at the fact her mother tried to force her to become a nun to wash her hands of it all. Lara decided that Melina could have a social life at the extent of hanging out with her sister Paula. Paula had never done anything to serve anyone but Paula. Melina was allowed to hang out with her sisters friends. Not hers but her sisters. Melina often went to their house and played cards and watched them cutting cigars to buy weed and roll it to smoke. Melina learned how to roll joints and measure dime bags and quarter bags . Not the education Lara Mcnally in visioned but it was what Paula's friends did on their spare time. Everytime they were done they would offer her a hit and Melina knowing the drugs would impare her magick and she couldn't control it so er little less impared denied their offers as the began to blow smoke in her face thinking it was hilarious. Melina often got contact high as she relaxed a little bit as they asked her awkward questions out of humor. This was where Melina met CC. A bick name for coochie coward because he was waiting for marriage to have sex. I know rare in this day in age a male waiting for marriage. Melina had already surrender to the fact she was waiting for marriage too to have sex not because it was a romantic gesture but because it kept people from trying to harm her or touch her. Melina hid behind the romantic goal to mask her uncomfortable feeling of people wanting to be sexual with her. CC was nice to her as he had two deaf parents and was an only child. She would watch how careful he was with his parents as they let him do what he wanted and he was a joint friend between Paula and mia . CC always seemed to be distant from Melina as she was his friends kid sister as they were only three years apart from each other . Melina liked him better than the other friends that was too forward . By this point mia had divorced her son's father and was living in the apartments with another guy . They would hang out in her sister Mia's apartment rolling joints and watching Howard Stern most nights. Lara didn't care Melina was hanging out with her sisters which was still restricted supervised visits that was controlled. Melina was share her sisters friends and not her own. Melina sat there in a room full of weed as she was stuck there until her sister decided to take her home if she was able to take her home. Lara didn't like CC and if she knew he was here hanging out with her daughter after the fiasco of Paula dating him and Landon at the same time as she would try to get him to give it up to her but never was able to get more then oral for him. Melina knew her mom would be mad if she came back high as hell under the influence of her sisters friends. They say on the desktop in random chat rooms thinking it was cool to chat online as Melina thought it was boring and felt like the odd one out. She knew she would never actually be able to hang out with friends without one of her sister watching her like a child as it was reversed she was always made to watch her older sisters to keep them out of trouble. Melina remembered one time Paula and Dana were supposed to be on phone restriction for making drama for some girls. She left Melina at home and told her not to let them call anyone as Lara went out drinking with a friend. She should have won the mother of the year award for allowing a fourteen year old to watch two sisters that didn't listen to her little less Melina. Paula distracted Melina with a fight as she yelled for Dana to call the boy they got in trouble with over a few girls. Melina fought off Paula but slamming her into the refrigerator as Paula jumped on her back trying to hold her back. Melina threw Paula off and grabbed the receiver from Dana and yanked the cord out as Dana screamed as she didn't think Melina was smart enough to stop them. Then Dana joined in the fight and Melina was fighting both Dana and Paula over calling boys. Melina came out bruised up but they didn't get one call out. This was the kind of nonsense Melina did. But now her aunt told her mom to let her be a teenager and have some freedom this was her mother's idea of being a teenager being supervised by the sister she was made to supervise. Lara didn't know how to be a mother if she had an instruction manual on how to be a parent. Melina would go home smelling like heavy purfume as her sisters tried to cover up the weed smell they caused. So she smelt like some variety of fruit mixed with hydro . Lara would be asleep as Melina just went to her room to just sit by herself as she began to think. During this time thinking was not idea for her as she couldn't sleep as she hadn't been able to sleep for days and do nothing but sleep for days. Some days she would just stay in her room completely in the dark listening to the voices in the house .Melina was not in the best of places as she was mad Joey got onto her about the cutting and now the pills. Melina managed to combine all the pills in one bottle so he wouldn't see all her pills she carried. Melina was in study hall first period as she was exhausted from hanging out with Paula . She often used this time to sleep as a room full of roudy adolescents was more peaceful than a house full of her own blood. Often when Melina was in the system the bickering between girls settling their scabbles was somewhat soothing . To know she was not the ire of their wrath made her sleep better than she had been lately. Melina had became quite skilled at distinguishing voices and movement of feet. There was a quiet freshman who always sat beside her . They didn't speak much but she really didn't bother a soul and was too soft spoken to be louder than a mouse. She would always be stressed over her grades as she used this time to finish homework or study for a test she had to pass. Lisa was a blonde hair girl of thin portion and she would scribble feveourously as Melina could count the time she broke the led to her pencil and the sound of the eraser tearing her page as she made disatifsfaction notices in her errors. Melina was cranky as she hadn't slept in a week and even the Tylenol night time medicine she took wasn't helping her racing mind at night. There was a guy in a class above her who was a pesky little mosquito as he felt that his amusement was more important than others peace. He would often call Melina witch girl , or demon worshper while she ignored him. The class would laugh at his absurd immaturity as entertainment all the while encouraging his nuisance behavior. Melina head Lisa asking someone for a pencil as she had broken her lead yet again and didn't know where her sharpener was. The classroom had a sharpener screwed to the wall but Lisa was scared to use the midevil device something about fear of the blades and her finger . " Go on go use the sharpener. Don't be scared of it ." Yelled the boy who couldn't leave people alone. " I don't want. I mean I am fine . I've studied enough anyways." Lisa stammered as she was trying to be not noticed as to ask for a spare pencil . " How many of them are you. Like what eight kids and all sisters . Does your parents own a condom. " Jested the boy as Melina always had a soft spot for the weak and defenseless . Her love if the runts of the litter made her jump in the yard one day with her step dads rabbit dogs and rescue a runt female dog who was born a month prior and her litter would refuse to let her eat as Paula dog lucky jumped the fence as soon as the pups were weighed enough to just return with another litter in her belly. Lucky was a walking bitch in the correct sense as she stayed pregnant and she wasn't too tentative to her litters for long. Melina adopted that dog and refused to let it back outside no matter what her mother said or did to her. The dog covered in bites and skin patches up and ribs showing broke her heart as she felt like the dog. Fighting for survival against her own kind and never given the chance to get enough to survive. Eventually Melina made her mother round up all the puppies and take them to the pound to prevent her dog she named abril from her former best friend she never got to say good bye to when she left camp Hill. " Are you going to cry?" Teased the boy named Andy . Melina had had enough of him messing with her for asking for basic needs . He had down woke an already cranky Melina up from the twenty minutes she had to sleep now. " Why don't you leave her alone . Don't you have anything better to do than pick on younger class men?" Said Melina as she sat up rubbing her face as now she was clearly aggervated . " This is none of your business demon worshiper." He said as he laughed at his own remark feeling proud of himself. " It is my business. I was sleeping fine until you opened your damn mouth and disturbed my silence. Leave Lisa alone ." Said Melina as she was now more awake. " Awe are you two sweet on each other. Come on.lets see a kiss." He said with smooching sounds. " Fuck off or I will make you fuck off." Melina said as the lights dimmed in the room and brighten up the evened out. The room let out a scream as they all heard the rumors too as they all grew quiet. " No thank you . I'm not into McNally scanks." He said as Melina stood and the room backed up . Melina stared at him as Lisa hid behind her as Melina was very protective over the girl that bothered no one . The bell rang before she knew it as the teacher usually sat in class reading a magazine . Melina left the room as Lisa followed her. " Thank you for back there but I don't want Andy to be mean to you because of me." She said as Melina stopped . " I'm not worried about Andy. He is all talk and no fight. I don't like people being picked on. It doesn't feel good at all." Said Melina as she went to gym class as Lisa moved behind her . " Hey. Maybe you can come to my house and play . I mean hang out. " Asked Lisa as Melina held up her hand to stop her. " You don't have to do that. Be nice to me because I helped you. I'm used to fighting for others. You needed help and I needed sleep but I wasn't going to let wandering hands Andy keep messing with you." Said Melina as she tried to shake this girl as she was going to be late to dress out and would have to run as punishment. " I don't have ten sisters. I have five . You can . I mean I can help you study for exams ." Offered Lisa as she knew acceptance of help with her having a four point three G P A wasn't something she needed but she saw the effort this girl was making to prove herself to Melina. " I will see what I can do. No promises. I have to work the next two days it will have to be on a weekend and only for a few hours ." Melina agreed as Lisa smiled at her new friend.