It was Friday, Ariana had still not gone to school, so Melanie decided to pay her a visit after school.

In the meanwhile, Melanie, Allison and Kristen were talking near the lockers, before they all left to their different classes.

"Kristen! What the heck?" Allison said in shock, "I can't believe you once liked Cody."

Kristen blushed, "I was infatuated by the fact that he had saved me from my cheater ex-boyfriend, which I now hate." "I know you hate him, I mean, me too," Melanie said, letting out a chuckle afterwards.

The bell rang and they separated to their different classes, during class, Cody took out his phone because he had received a text message. Thinking it was from Melanie, he immediately got his phone out and unlocked it, excited to read whatever his girlfriend had sent him. But, it was not from her, it was an unknown number.

#: Be careful with your girlfriend, she's not to be trusted.

Confused, he took a screenshot and sent it to Melanie. As Melanie received it and read what it said, she also got confused.

M: What the heck is that suppose to mean?

C: I don't know, that's so weird and like... Creepy

M: Maybe they sent it by error

C: Yeah, maybe, well, ttyl

M: Kk, bye

The hours passed by, and it was lunch time, again everyone gathered at the table, except for Ariana and Drew. Drew had gone on a trip with his mom, to visit his dad somewhere else in the country, and well, Ariana's foot was not doing any better.

"Babe," Cody said, Melanie's heart fluttering, still not used to the sound of the word. "Yeah?" She said, "If the message was not sent by error, who do you think could have sent such a weird text message?" Cody asked, still having goose-bumps from such a creepy text message.

Melanie shrugged, "I don't know, but I really think it was sent by error."

From then on, they did not pay attention to it, and continued on with their lives.

School had just finished, the students left the building with smiles on their faces, since it was Friday and they couldn't wait to get drunk on the weekend, go to parties, watch movies and all the typical stuff teenagers do when the weekend starts to roll over.

"I'll visit Ariana, so text me if you want to do anything tomorrow," Melanie said, giving Cody a small peck on his cheek before walking over to her car.

She drove towards her house first, leaving her backpack on her bed and changing into a more comfortable outfit, leggings and a hoodie.

Then, she walked downstairs with her phone on one hand and as she passed by the kitchen, she left a note for her mom.

"Mom, I'll be at Ariana's house, call me if you need anything.
Love, Melanie <3"

The green apples held in the fruit basket looked delicious, so she grabbed one and ate it during her driving trip to Ariana's house.

Ding-dong.

The doorbell was loud enough for Melanie to hear it from outside. The house was the same size as hers, practically because most of them were like that.

"Hey, Melanie!" Ariana greeted, a little too excited to see her friend. "Hey, I came to see how you were doing," Melanie said, smiling.

"Oh, I can walk now, but I can't abuse my power," Ariana said, chuckling at the end. "It's good to hear you're doing better, now, may I come in? I hope you have food, girl, 'cause I'm hungry," "Of course, come in, I'll make sandwiches," Ariana said opening the door wide enough to let her friend in.

"I heard you are going out with Cody, is that true?" Ariana asked, emphasizing her tone of jealousy on her last word of the sentence.

"How do you know that?" Melanie asked, getting a but nervous, "Well, I just heard it from a little birdie," she responded, a gave a big fake smile.

"Are you mad at me?" Melanie asked, "Not really, just disappointed in how you can't be trusted," Ariana answered, making Melanie's mind click into focus when she said the last three words.

"You sent that text message to Cody, didn't you?" "Of course I did," Ariana said as if it were the most normal thing in the world.

"Now, if you'll excuse me, I need you to smell this," Ariana said, grabbing a towel from the counter and rapidly putting it over Melanie's face, so she could breathe the toxic scent that the towel contained. Ariana just smirked as her friend fell down to the floor.

It was already nighttime when Melanie woke up tied to a chair with a table in front of her and a light so bright making her almost blind.

"It was darn time you woke up," she heard a familiar voice say, she recognized it almost immediately. Then another voice said, "Are you sure you want to do this?" This time, she was confused as to why the people she trusted in were doing this to her.

"Ariana?! Kristen?! Why are you doing this to me? What are you even thinking?" Melanie cried out loud, "You took Cody from us, from me specially," "From me, as well, Ariana!" "Yeah, yeah," Ariana said and rolled her eyes.

"What? You're doing this because of Cody? What the heck is wrong with you?! Are you freaking nuts?! He's just a guy, a crush you girls have, you can get over it for God's sake!" Melanie shouted once again.

Ariana smirked, "Oh, but I will not, so I'll make you suffer."

"We'll make you suffer," Kristen clarified.

"Where are the cigarettes?" Ariana asked, "Shoot, I left them in the kitchen," Kristen responded, Ariana rolled her eyes once more, "Go get them, you moron!" "Oh yeah, right!" And like that, Kristen went out the door, not two seconds had passed by, when she came back, "I forgot what was the way to the kitchen," she said.

"Do I have to do everything in this?" Ariana said, sighing. They both left through the door, but there was one mistake in their plan, they had not taken Melanie phone away.

She tried to grab her phone as fast as possible, but failed miserably, so she thought of something more logical. She pressed the home button long enough to awake Siri, "Siri, call Cody Henderson," she said loud enough for her phone to record it, but soft enough so she couldn't be heard by the girls.

"Calling, Cody Henderson..."

She felt the phone rang a couple of time and she could hear his voice saying hi, but at the exact same moment, the girls' footsteps were coming closer. "Shut up and listen, come quick!" Melanie said quickly and in panic.

At the other side, Cody closed his mouth and put his phone on speaker so he could hear better.

"What are you going to do with the cigarettes?" Melanie asked, she sounded terrified, "This is just the beginning, darling," that was Ariana, then he heard like if something was like burning skin, and the sound of Melanie's shriek clarified the situation.

He called 911, immediately, explaining everything and giving them the address, then he ran downstairs, grabbing the car keys from the living room table and his jacket from the jacket holder, he ran out of his house, turning on his car quickly and driving directly to Ariana's house.

"It hurts you mother—AH!" Melanie shrieked once again, the feeling of the hot cigarette butt burning her stomach and her left arm.

"Not as much as it hurt me, when you kissed Cody!" "Yeah, not as much as it hurt me when I heard him calling you babe at lunch!" Ariana and Kristen screamed.

They screamed so loud that once Cody got in the house, since the door was unlocked, he immediately knew where they were—the basement.

He ran, opening each door, until finally he noticed the bright light come from one of the rooms and once he opened it, it was the basement.

He closed the door, and walked to the entrance, looking at the police cars. Then the policemen came out of their assigned cars, and Cody placed a finger on his mouth, signaling them to be silent.

He guided them to the basement, and he was the first one to walk downstairs. What he saw made him freeze, Ariana was pointing a gun to Melanie's head and both of them were crying.

"I hate you, for taking my precious Cody, and I will kill you!" Ariana screamed. "Ariana! You said we were just going to make her suffer, not kill her! Put the gun down!" Kristen yelled at her, attempting to grab the gun from her hand, but she simply got knocked out because Ariana hit her with the gun she was holding.

"I will kill you, because you took what I dreaded the most, and if I can't get him back... Then it's better for me to kill myself!" Ariana yelled, as she pointed the gun to her own head.

That's when the police intervened, it was a whole show, but at the end they got Ariana to give them the gun, while Cody untied Melanie from the chair, taking her outside so the paramedics could help heal her burns and a few bruises she had received.

"Baby, I'm sorry you had to go through all of this, because those girls were obsessed with me. I mean, I did not think someone would ever like me, and then here we are, I just—" "Shut up, Cody," Melanie interrupted him, a small smile on her face that made Cody smile back.

"I would go over that again if it meant I still ended up with you," she said. "But, let's hope that doesn't repeat, right?" Cody said, a nervous smile on his face.

"I love you," Melanie said, "I love you, too."

Then a gunshot was heard, everybody got scared and threw themselves to the floor.

They got off of the Ambulance when they told them it was Kristen. She had woken up and seen the gun on the floor and decided to shot herself, she was still alive the moment they got her in the ambulance.

Cody and Melanie rushed to her, forgetting everything she did and simply thinking of her as their friend.

"Kristen, why would you do that?!" Melanie shouted at her, Kristen smiled, "It was just in the leg, it hurts, but at least I can have this moment," she coughed twice before continuing, "This moment with you. I have to tell you guys s-something i-important."

They looked at her with confused faces, "What is it?"

Kristen smiled, "M-maybe," she coughed once again, "Maybe, you should've kept you love as a secret."

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THE END.
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