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SATURDAY was the day, the day she gets her diary back. even though at this point she would rather text matt on instagram and just tell him the fact they mixed up their diaries, she couldn't. her friends were already excited at the fact she agreed to go to the party. she was sitting in her room waiting for nathan to come in and pick her up. she was nervous to say the least, all her thoughts rushing her head. what if she makes a fool of herself ? what if she doesn't get her diary back? what if he threw out her diary? a lot of these what if's were cut off when she hears a horn blaring outside her window. nathan was here and wouldn't stop blaring the horn if she didn't hurry up so she rushes down stairs.

as she rushes down the stairs, almost falling the process she sees her aunt in the kitchen. "bye aunt gracie!" she screams trying to sneak by her as quickly as possible.

"no no get over here!" her aunt screamed back whipping her head around the corner looking at melanie.

melanie's huffs and turns around from the door. walking towards her aunt who has her arms crossed and was tapping her foot could either mean that she is just messing with her or that she is in trouble.

"ummm yes?" melanie says standing in front of her aunt as she plays with her necklace nervously.

her aunt gave her a serious look before rolling her eyes and laughing, "i'm just messing with you sweetie," she says and pulls in melanie for a hug. "have fun tonight babes."

melanie smiles softly and laughs as she returns the hug. "i'll try my hardest."

"you never go out girl go crazy!" her aunt says giving her a wink and letting go of the hug.

"alright alright...i gotta go nathan is going to go crazy if i take any longer," she says turning around walking towards the door. "bye love you!!"

she closes the door behind her and sees nathan's car filled with all her friends who were going crazy. she laughed softly before running up to the car and opening the car door.

"babessss!!" scarlette screams grabbing the girls hand and dragging her into the car.

trevor being in the way back of the car leans in close to melanie and smiles. "are you excited for your first ever party!?"

melanie shuts the door and turns to look at him with an unamused look. "please this is not my first party!" she says and crosses her arms fake pouting.

hazel who was on the other side of scarlette ruffles melanies hair, "honey the freshman parties you went to literally don't count.." she says with a soft smile.

melanie rolls her eyes and slaps her hand away from her hair, "okay okay fine but i am not excited like at all." she says and puts on her seatbelt.

nathan turns from the drivers seat and looks at her, "you will have fun don't you worry about it!" he says with a sincere smile and melanie returning it.

she huffs and nods, "alright guys fine i'll try and have fun but let's go i need to get my diary!" she says clapping her hands together.

grayson turns from the passenger seat and smirks, "your actually a child for having a diary!" he says teasing her.

"oh shut it and turn back around boy!" she says pushing his face away and turning to look out the window.

the party smelt like alcohol and weed, a combo that melanie was not a huge fan of. she couldn't stand how much people were also in the party but luckily she had her friends with her. she was worried that she was going to be kicked out because no one really knew her. everyone knew her friends but she was like a lost puppy standing next to them. she had one mission and that was to find matt sturniolo.

she felt a hand on her shoulder and she turns to see trevor standing behind her. he gives her a warm smile before looking back up and leading his hand down her lower back to lead her through the party.

"trevor where are we going?" she asks looking up at him as she is leading her through a crowd of people.

"we're going to find matt so then you can get your diary." he explains nonchalantly not even looking back down at her as they get towards the kitchen.

she looks around to see matt making out with some blonde girl. she was on top of the counter as his hands were on her hips. melanie scoffs and turns around to look at trevor.

"maybe we should wait until he's done?" she suggested as she holds matt's notebook in her hand.

trevor looked up at matt and then down at her, "yeah i think that would be the best idea," he agreed and looks around the kitchen some more. "would you want a drink?"

melanie scrunches her nose a little as she thought about his question before she nods. "i mean yeah i'll have a drink." she answers and follows trevor to lead her to the drinks.

he rummages through the cooler of drinks and pulls out a high noon. he hands it to her and smiles softly. "don't worry these don't really taste like alcohol." he says as he cracks it open for her waiting for her to take a sip.

she bites her lip and nods looking at the drink before taking a little sip. "i guess it's not so bad.." she mumbles before taking another small sip.

"see i told you," he says before looking around for their friends to see them all outside. "come on let's go outside!"

she nods and follows him outside to where her friends were. they were all smoking around a fire that was going on. melanie has never smoked with her friends even if they really wanted her to but that's just because she knows she would probably freak out. tonight was definitely not the night to test it out too especially since all she could think about was talking to matt.

hazel turns to melanie and takes a long hit of the joint before coughing it out, "did you get your diary yet?" she asked between coughs.

melanie shakes her head slowly, "nope he was to busy eating some girls face off...some blonde girl." she answers as she looks around at the scenery.

scarlette points at her and her eyes widened, "oh that's eliana," she says as she taps the sides of her drink. "that poor girl she has been matt's little hook up buddy for ever."

grayson rolls his eyes, "she really has like and the crazy part is that she is loyal to him," he says and then puts his hand to his chest acting all sad before sighing really loud. "she won't even hook up with me!"

nathan rolls his eyes and hits grayson in his stomach causing him to hunch over, "she is probably deeply in love knock it off!" he grumbles before taking a hit off the joint that was passed to him.

"well anyways she shouldn't...," melanie starts before looking around to make sure her or matt isn't around. "i mean matt is attractive but come on she could do better he is mean."

"exactly thank you mel!" grayson says standing back up from his hunched position and giving melanie a high five.

she rolls her eyes and laughs as she high fives him in return, "well guys i should probably go find him before he goes making out with another girl!" she says turning around on her heels and going back into the house.

as she looks around the house for matt she can feel some peoples eyes on her. she would rather crawl in a hole than be here right now but she was determined to get her diary back. she decided to head towards the living room and see if she can find him there. to her luck she did see him on the couch rolling a joint.

she takes a deep breath before walking towards him and clearing her throat. "s-sorry but..." she started before she was cut off by him.

"are you really stalking me...?" he says lowly as he looks up at her. his eyes were low, red and glossy when he looked up at her.

"u-um no!" she stuttered before looking away from him and biting her bottom lip. "i came here to give this back to you.." she says looking down at the book in her hands and slowly handing it to him.

he snatched it from her hands immediately and glares at her. "did you read it?" he smirks softly at her.

"no that would be rude..."she says looking back at him with daggers towards him. "did you read mine?"

he brings the joint up to his lips and licking the paper to seal it. "and what if i did missie?" he says with a smirk planted on his face.

"did you...?" she says as her heart sank and her nerves went up.

"well let's just say you have a lot of thoughts up in that pretty head of yours." he says as he stands up from the couch and throwing the joint into his sweatpants pocket.

she crosses her arms and looks up at him, "well that's very rude and you should apologize." she says softly and crosses her arms.

he laughs and runs his hands through his hair, "gosh you really are polite but no." he says before walking pass her until she grabs the back of his hoodie and pulls him back which catches him off guard.

"listen can i just have my book back?" she says lowly looking up at the back of his head before he turns around.

"i hate to break it to you but i don't bring other girls's diaries to parties." he says leaning down to her level to antagonize her.

"well i want it now matthew so go get it." she says sternly letting go off his hoodie and crossing her arms.

"well then let's go shall we?" he says before backing up from her and walking towards the door.

melanie was left standing in shock for a second before she rushed over to him and followed him outside the party. she didn't understand why she was following him but she really wanted her diary back. as she was following him it was very quiet and all you could hear was the muffled music from the party.

"have you ever been on a motorcycle?" he stopped and turned to her.

melanie looked at his motorcycle and then back at him with an unamused look on her face. "do you really think i have ever been on a motorcycle?" she says crossing her arms looking up at him.

"alright fair fair," he says grabbing his helmet and putting it on. "well today is your lucky day!" he throws her a helmet and she catches it.

"matthew i'm not going on this death trap!" she complains looking at the helmet and then back at him who was already on it.

"oh come on miss goodie you'll be fine," he says and starts the bike which made a loud roar. "you want your diary don't you?"

she looked back at the helmet then at him and sighed. "alright fine just don't kill me." she says and puts the helmet on walking towards his bike.

as she sits on the bike playing with her hands, he grabs her hands and wraps it around his waist. "you do know you have to hold on to me right?" he says looking back at her causing her face to go pink from embarrassment.

"oh uh yeah!" she says tightening her grip a little causing him to laugh and kick the kickstand up.

he starts to ride off and she leans her head against his back. she was nervous and she felt like she was going to die on the bike. this was the second craziest thing she has ever done, the first being going to this party. as he drove through the town she looks to the side at the buildings and cars. she couldn't lie she kind of actually found it peaceful. everytime he took a turn she felt her grip tightening on him to make sure she wasn't going to fall off. before you know it they made it to his house. he pulls into the drive way of his house and turns off the bike.

he takes off the helmet and looks back at her, "you know you can let go me too right?" he leaned into her and whispered.

she looked up at him wide eyed as she took of the helmet. "o-oh yeah sorry!" she says quickly before letting go and getting off the bike.

he laughs and gets off putting the kick stand down. "alright come on let's go." he says as he walks up to his house with her following after him.

he opens up the door to his house and turns the lights on. she followed in after him as she shuts the door behind them and follows him upstairs. she looked around the house and saw a bunch of family photos of him and his brothers also some with his mom and dad. in all the pictures that were on the walls he was actually smiling and didn't seem to be so bad after all. once they reach the top of the stairs she turns to him walking into his room so she follows.

his room was dark and had a bunch of posters plastered all over, there was also a guitar in the corner of the room. once her attention leads to the bed she sees her diary open. he grabs it and closes it for her and hands it to her.

"well miss goodie let's not mix our things up again yeah.." he says holding her diary out for her.

she nods and grabs the diary from him, "i have a name you know?" she snaps at him with a frown on her face.

he walks closer towards her to the point her face was almost touching his chest, "and what is that missie?" he says lowly looking down at her with a smirk.

"it's melanie..." she says softly as her eyes wandered across his face, looking at his features. how his eyes were an icy blue and that the scruff he had on his face was now freshly shaved. her eyes eventually went back up to his eyes who were still staring at her.

"well i think missie fits you better..." he says putting a hand on her waist and leaning down to her ear. "since you interrupted me from this joint right here...your going to follow me okay." he demanded before moving beside her and walking towards a window.

she was left there once again in shock at his actions before following after him as he opens the window and crawls out.

"matthew are you crazy?" she says as she sticks her head out the window watching him walk on the roof up to the very top.

"don't worry i do this all the time." he says turning around and waving her to come on the roof with him.

she sighs before she climbs through the window and slowly walks towards him to make sure she doesn't fall. she eventually makes it up to the top and sees him sitting down on his phone, the phone lightly dimming his face. he plays bathroom by montell fish and looks back up at her.

"come sit." he says as he pats the spot next to him.

she nods and walks over to sit next to him. "you listen to montell fish?" she asks him as she brings her knees up to her chest.

he looks at her with a raised eyebrow, his face showing an emotion of surprise. "yeah...you listen to montell fish?" he says with a surprised tone in his face.

she smiles softly and nods, "yeah from time to time i do." she says looking at him.

"well you just continue to surprise me..." he says pulling out the joint and lighter from his pocket.

"and how is that?" she asked curiously.

"well for one..." he starts to say before he lights up the joint and takes a long hit before blowing it out effortlessly. "you were at a party that i was at."

"and why is that so surprising?" she says as her eyes squint from the smoke blowing towards her face.

"well it just didn't seem like your scene...you seem like you would stay home and read a book or something." he says trying to blow away the smoke from her with his hands.

she laughed softly, "well you aren't wrong...the only reason i went was to get my diary back." she says turning her head to look at the sky ahead of her.

"are you sure it wasn't just to see me?" he says lowly with a smirk as he takes another hit.

"you are really full of yourself you know that right?" she says turning her head to him as she had a facial expression of disgust.

he laughs and rolls his eyes, "it's not being full of myself it's just called having confidence." he says as his eyes get lower than they were before.

"well i guess but you could be a little humble yourself." she says rolling her eyes at his response.

"whatever you say missie..." he says as he continues to smoke the joint and look at the night sky.

the silence between them felt comfortable which was strange considering this was their first time ever interacting to her knowledge. she would take quick glances at him every once in awhile. at one point she caught herself staring at him and that is when her phone started to ring. she saw her phone ringing and it was trevor who was blowing up her phone.

she sighed and picked up, "trevor sorry what's up!?" she says through the phone.

"we are about to leave where are you!?" he says worryingly through the phone.

"um about that...i'm at matt's house," she says quietly into the phone waiting for a response before it was quiet between them and he responds.

"we're on our way to pick you up." he says before hanging up leaving melanie confused to his response but she just sighs and turns off her phone.

"you alright there?" matt asks as he throws the joint into the distance to show that he was finished.

"yeah my friends are coming to pick me up." she says looking at him and nodding.

"well they didn't sound too excited to hear u were with me.." he says as he leans back on his two hands.

"no no...they were just worried cause they didn't know where i was." she explained nervously as she played with her necklace.

silence filled the air as he looked at her with a soft smile. she doesn't think she's seen this much emotion from him...she doesn't think anyone has seen this much emotion from his ever. she couldn't help staring at him and all his features. it was something about him that wanted her to stay there and stare at him all night. the silence between them was cut off once she heard a loud honk.

matt looks away and sees a car, "well your friends are here...." he says looking back at her.

she nods and gets up from the roof, "yup well i should get going...thanks for my diary back." she says as she starts to walk off before she feels a hand pulling her back.

she turns to see matt standing up with her hand in his. he pulls her in closer to him still not letting go of her hand. he looks at her lips then back at her eyes.

he leans in close to her, "read your diary when you get home missie.." he whispered in her ear before letting go of her hand.

she looked at him in confusion but not questioning his request because she wanted to get down to her friends before nathan continued to honk. she just nods and walks back towards the window. what just happened tonight?

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ugh yessssss some melanie and matt action!!! this chapter is like extremely long but i felt it was necessary for the plot. i also just realized nathan's name is also like the same as nathan does sooo whenever i write nathan im talking abt my character nathan and nottttt nathan doe lol