“Who do you think those girls are?” Melanie asked Paisley on their way home.
“Crushing on Axel, I think” Paisley sighed.
“Oh… Now, I get it,” Melanie mumbled.
“Are you okay?” She asked, glancing at Paisley.
“Why?”
“Earlier… We saw Ace,” Melanie trailed off.
“I should be asking you that, are you okay? He toyed with your feelings… I mean, We” Paisley muttered.
“I already moved on, I don’t love him again. But you… You still love him?”
“No, I h@të him so much right now,” Paisley walked away.
“She’s lying,” Melanie sighed.
****
BROWN’S RESIDENCE~MELANIE’S ROOM***
Melanie just finished having her dinner with her family. She’s in her room while Paisley is down with her parents in the living room.
A call came through on her phone, it was from Axel’s.
A smile left her lips before she picked the call
“Hey bae,” his lazy voice rang over the phone.
“Are you sleeping?” Melanie chuckled, getting to the bed.
“Yes, just woke you. And you? Have you had your dinner?” He asked.
“Yeah, not quite long. You don’t sound too okay, are you fine?” She asked.
“A little, just missing you. I missed your presence here, swears”
Melanie smiled.
“It’s just for a week, I’ll be back soon” she muttered.
“Are you serious?” She could hear the happiness in his voice
“Yea… My parents already settled the differences between I and Paisley, we just have to stay here for a week,”
“I guess I can wait then. Do you think she’s changed?” He asked, referring to Paisley.
“Yes, she is” They talked for a very long time till..
“Goodnight,” she whispered.
“Goodnight, the girl of my dreams. I love you,” the call ended
A pink blush crept to Melania’s cheeks when the call ended.
He just has a way of putting smiles on her face everyday.
“I love you,” she whispered, hugging her phone to her chest.
****
NEXT DAY***
? Wait… Is this Axel?
? He’s a model now? Gosh, he looks so hot!
? But… Who’s that girl beside him? She’s pretty
The students murmured among themselves as they stared at their phones. The photoshoot Axel had with Sierra was already trending on the internet.
? Is his girlfriend not gonna get mad at this?
? Well, if she does, then I can date him instead.
****
A4’S SUITE***
Axel entered the suite to find his friend’s curious gaze at him.
“What’s the meaning of this?” Aaron asked, raising his phone to the air.
“You’re a model and we aren’t even aware of this?” Aiden asked.
“Are we even your friends at all? You just love keeping things to yourself and it’s annoying seriously,” Ace said.
“I’m sorry, I had my reasons,” Axel muttered.
“Reasons you can tell us, your friends? Even me too?” Aaron scoffed in disbelief.
“Can’t believe this,” Aiden said.
Axel’s phone suddenly started beeping, he checked it to find out different messages from a lot of agencies, begging him to sign up with them.
He sighed before inserting his phone into his pocket.
“I really don’t know you anymore, swears” Ace shook his head. He stood up and left the place.
“You should know I had my reasons for doing this, I can’t just keep things from you guys. You should know,” Axel said.
“I don’t know what to think at this moment,” Aiden left the place too.
“You’re gonna leave too?” Axel asked Aaron.
“That’s if I’m crazy,” Aaron muttered.
“I know you have your reasons but keeping it from us is bad, ion like it” he said.
“I’m sorry,” Axel said.
Aaron sighed before letting out a smile.
****
Axel was taking a walk around the school when Kylie went to him.
“Who are you?” Axel asked.
“You don’t have to know, but just take care of her. I’ll never forgive you if you hurt even a little finger of hers,” Kylie warned.
Axel furrowed his brows.
“I’m talking about Melanie. She loves you, and..”
“Wait… What did you just say?” Axel asked, cutting him off.
“She loves you, she rejected me plainly all because she loves you. I’ll never forgive you if you hurt her and…” Axel was already out of his sigh before he could complete his sentence.
Kylie clenched his fist.
“That @$$hOle,” he mumbled.
***
After searching around for her, he finally found her in the park-like settings. She was standing alone with her flowing along with the wind.
He took slow strides to her, a happy smile playing on his lips.
“Bae,” he called slowly.
Melanie turned to him, she scoffed before taking her eyes away.
“What’s wrong?” He touched her arm gently but she jerked it off almost immediately.
That simple action of her pricked his heart like a needle. He held her arms again, this time a little bit tight and turned her to him.
“Did I do something wrong?” He asked.
“Why didn’t you tell me you’re a model?” She asked gently.
“I was planning to…”
“You were planning to?” Melanie scoffed.
“You keep telling me that you love me, yet you snap with some models behind my back. Are they all lies too?” She asked, almost shouting.
“No, bae. My feelings for you are never a lie, I meant it when I truly said that I love you,” Axel quickly said.
“Then can you tell me about this?” She brought her phone and showed the pictures of he and Sierra, their lips almost inches apart.
“You almost kissed her in the picture, how am I sure you haven’t kissed her too?” She rolled her eyes.
“I can’t do that, you have to trust me,” Axel said.
“I don’t even know if I am to trust you anymore,” she muttered and turned to leave.
“I’m doing all this because of my Dad!” He suddenly yelled.
Melanie stopped walking and turned to him.
“Because I refused to get married to Ariel, he freezed my account and I… I had to do that to show him I can live without his money”
“I can never hurt you, trust me,” he moved closer to her.
“You should have told me,” Melanie whispered.
“I felt hurt when I saw that and the students won’t stop talking about it,” she bit her lips.
“I’m sorry,” he finally got to her and held her hands in his.
“Do you… Have something to tell me?” He asked with a smile.
“Huh?”
“I love you too, much more than you can ever imagine,” he leaned closer and kissed her forehead fondly, his lips lingering on it.
Suddenly, a hand wrenched him from her roughly and a hard punch landed on his lips immediately.
Melanie gasped and stared ahead to meet Ace’s furious gaze on them.
“Füçk you, betrayal!” Ace spat, glaring at Axel with his eyes glinting dangerously.
TBC
