Melody's POV

"Ladies we are now at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. We will be heading up to the roof for the cocktail hour. Tyler will make his appearance in a few minutes." Laura says as she walks us through the hotel to the elevator.

We stop at floor 3 and follow Laura to a room. She gets out a key card and opens the door.

"Alright get changed and I'll be back in fifteen minutes."

She closes the door and leaves us to the the beautiful hotel room.

"Wow that's the longest amount of time we've ever been given." Brynn says as she drags her bag to the room on the right.

"So true." Kennedy and I follow her which makes Sadie, Camila, and Grace go to the room on the left.

I close the door and throw my bag in the couch nearby. Huffing I fall onto the couch and throw off my shoes.

"I'm so tired."

"Me too." Brynn shouts from the bathroom.

I hear a flush as she walks out making me chuckle. She's so funny and blunt and real. That's what I love about that chick.

"I'm so glad we get separate rooms to get ready in. I don't know if I can deal with the three musketeers."

I nod agreeing with Kennedy, "Yeah no thank you."

"Can you believe their answers today? If they weren't lying for some questions they were telling the truth to horrible questions. I don't know what they're here."

Kennedy nods sitting by Brynn, "Yeah. Well Brynn most girls who have been on the show just want fame and more social media followers or something like that. I'm sure Grace would love to be a social media influencer."

"Ugh so true. I can't with them. If I get booted before them I'm gonna have a conniption."

"What's a conniption?"

I laugh at Kennedy, "A bf."

She looks at Brynn and I as we giggle looking at one another.

"A What?"

"A bitch fit." Brynn smiles.

"Oh that makes sense."

"You know what else I can't believe..."

I grimace as Brynn smirks and sits on the bed patting the spot beside her. Sighing, I sit down and Kennedy follows in suit.

"Why didn't you tell us? By us I mean me... no offense Kennedy."

Kennedy shrugs with a smile, "None taken."

I chuckle and look down at my hands, "I was scared. Back home I had so many people who didn't agree with me being pregnant then me being a single mother. I just didn't want to be judged again and I wanted Tyler to know before you guys."

"I totally understand. I'm not hurt in any way I'm glad Tyler is on board and not judgmental towards you having a child. I actually kind of knew already though. I was just waiting on you to tell us."

My head whips up and I look at Brynn in disbelief, "Nuh uh. How did you know?"

"I was in the phone booth and just finished up my call. Someone called just as I was about to leave the room. I picked it up and a little girl answered the phone asking to speak to her mommy. I asked who her mommy was and she said and I quote, 'Her name is mommy. Everyone calls her Mel but to me she's mommy.' Super cute by the way. I already love her. So I told her that I would tell you when you got out the shower to call back. But then you came downstairs and went in the phone booth before I could let you know sooooo yeah."

I shake my head, "Oh my gosh. Thank goodness. That feels like a weight is now lifted off my shoulders."

"I would never judge you Mel! You're becoming one of my best friends and I don't want to lose that relationship."

"Me neither."

"Ditto." Kennedy says from beside me.

We all laugh and pull each other into a group hug. Then we finally get up and start to get ready. We were told to bring a change of clothes. Nothing too fancy but not just plain jeans and tees. So I decided to wear a dark and light blue striped dress with grey designs. It was a strap dress and it came to right above my knees. I wear black booties with a white stripe on the ankle also and hoop earrings.

"Girl your fashion sense is literally killer. Ugh I just wanna be you."

"Thanks B! You look bomb don't even."

After what seems like eternity, we finally make it to the roof which is a rooftop garden. There are benches all around and smack dab in the middle of the garden is a fountain with a mini waterfall. It's absolutely beautiful. We make our way to a tent that the crew set up and sit down in the chairs waiting for Tyler.

Tyler makes his way into the tent and sits beside me and Kennedy in the middle.

"I want to thank you all for participating today. Some of the day didn't go as great as I thought it would but I did get clarity on a lot of my connections with everyone. So tonight I hope some of you gain clarity on where we are and what you want out of all of this."

We raise our glasses and clank them lightly against each other. I look over at Tyler who is already looking at me.

"Hey can I talk to you?"

"Of course. Lead the way."

I stand and take Tyler's hand guiding him out the tent away from the angry stares of the three musketeers. We walk to the fountain and stop as I get distracted.

"Wow that's so beautiful."

"Yes it is."

I look over at Tyler to see him looking down at me with gleaming eyes. I laugh and playfully push him away.

"Oh whatever."

He chuckles and pulls my wrist spinning me around. He pulls me close to him, my back against his chest with his arms around my waist and his chin on my shoulder.

"I could hold you like this forever."

"I wouldn't mind if you did."

He kisses my temple and stays there for a moment making me close my eyes and think about having this in the future.

As I open my mouth to speak, I'm interrupted by a snarky voice that tries to sound pleasant, "Do you think I could steal Tyler away from you? You can't keep him all night."

I turn my head still in Tyler's arms and see Camila fake smiling with her arms crossed over her chest.

"Wasn't planning on it."

I move out of Tyler's arms as some emotion passes in his eyes. I'm not sure but it looked like annoyance and anger. It quickly passes as he notices me looking at him with a smile.

"I'll talk to you later."

He nods and kisses my head again. I quickly make my way back to the tent and sit beside Brynn.

"How'd it go?"

"Okay I guess. I didn't really get to talk to him. I guess I'll try again later."

Brynn frowns and looks over at Sadie and Grace who are whispering to each other.

"Ugh that witch stole him away early didn't she? She said she was going to the bathroom."

I sigh, "Well think about it we did learn that they are all liars."

Brynn mutters how right I am as we watch Sadie get up and leave then a few seconds later Camila storming back. Then it becomes a routine. Grace gets up to leave and Sadie storms back. Kennedy gets up to leave and Grace storms back.

If no one gets it at this point... when there's more girls there's less time. Obviously the only people who are truly upset about this is the musketeers.

Brynn finally gets her chance after Kennedy.

"I'm gonna go to the restroom." I whisper to Kennedy who nods and picks at her nails.

Getting up, I make my way out the tent and in search of the bathroom. After getting lost a few times, I find it inside the hotel and then do my business and go back outside.

I stop and lean on the balcony looking at the stars wondering what my family was doing right now. I hadn't talked to them in three days and I really missed my baby. I made a mental note to call them tomorrow.

Walking back to tent I feel the wind start to pick up a little. Shivering slightly I walk inside but stop dead in my tracks feeling a tense sharp pain go down my spine from standing up so straight, but not because of the wind.

The rose had vanished from the table and so had Brynn and Tyler.

~JUST FOR FUN~

Melody's Dress