you are in love|tao xu

chapter five

YOU ARE IN LOVE
chapter five

    The next day the three friends departed at the Truham gates. (Even though Tao was too stubborn to admit he and Spencer were becoming friends). After Tao and Spencer had walked into Truham Melody quickly looked around for someone she knew. Sure enough she spotted Imogen and smiled. She mumbled a small good morning to Nick Nelson on her way over to Imogen. She was with Ben and Harry, who were not Melody's favorite people but she could cope with it today.

    "Immie! Goodmorning!" Melody greeted, giving Imogen a quick hug. She greeted Ben and Harry with a goodmorning as well just to be polite. Harry, who could not take a hint and was sure that he and Melody were gonna be an it couple soon enough, wrapped his arm around Melody's shoulders. Melody was too lazy to move his arm away because she knew he would just replace it, so she reluctantly left it. Melody noticed as Imogen's eyes drifted over to Nick Nelson. Imogen excused herself before walking over to Nick.

    "So Mel.. wanna do something after school? Like perhaps a date at Nando's?" Harry tried while leaning extremely close to Mel's face. She leaned back uncomfortably with an innocent look on her face.

    "Oh.. I already have plans after school today. I'm sorry. Maybe we can raincheck?" Melody responded. After the last sentence she had to hold back a groan. The last thing she wanted was to go on a date with Harry Greene. She shouldn't have given him hope for a date.

    "He's definitely chirpsing someone." Imogen practically sang to all the other people at the table. The boys in the group all laughed and congratulated him in a gross boy way. Melody felt slightly uncomfortable but brushed it off as Imogen walked back over to her and started conversation. Melody couldn't help but notice Nick's body language and how he seemed uncomfortable as well. Like something was going on in his mind. Maybe he was just embarrassed.

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    Melody actually didn't have plans that night when Harry asked her out. But on the walk back home, (which was only Tao and Melody because Spencer went home sick from drinking old apple juice he thought would turn into alcohol) She found out there was a Charlie "intervention" at Tao's house.

    "What do you mean emergency intervention? Aren't those for like addicts whose families are worried about them." Melody questioned as the two crossed the street.

Tao gave her that. Maybe intervention was the wrong word for what was gonna happen. But maybe it was the right word because Charlie is ADDICTED to Nick and his 4 other friends were his worried family. Except most of them weren't as worried as Tao.

"I guess. But it works because Charlie is addicted to Nick and we need to help him because Nick is straight." Tao explained with a defensive tone in his voice. Melody sighed with a roll of her eyes. Tao picked up on this and looked over with concern taking up his eyes.

As much as Melody loved Tao, platonically obviously, she just really platonically loved him, he was starting to get annoying with all his "Nick is straight!" bs. Tao didn't know the boy personally. He's making assumptions with zero evidence other than he plays rugby.

"Oh my god here we go again with the nick is straight shit." Melody groaned while rubbing her forehead. Tao bit his lip when he noticed how much he annoyed her. Has it always been like this? Melody felt the slightest bit guilty for sounding more aggressive than she meant but hell how else could she show Tao he was being ridiculous. The guilt grew even more as she locked eyes with Tao and saw the worried look in his eyes. Knowing Tao she knew he was definitely overthinking right then.

She stopped walking and pulled Tao into a hug, mumbling an apology. As she started pulling out of the embrace she pressed a quick kiss on his cheek. Tao immediately went red and Melody noticed. She wasn't gonna say anything though. She'd just think about it for the rest of the day.

{she loves him very platonically... also you are in love came on while writing this it was insane}