Queens of Contradiction Chapter 5
Chapter 5 I Wanna Do Something Crazy. Something I've Never Done Before
As Courtney began the girls' story, Melody tensed up, and Sebastien noticed. He gently rubbed her shoulders, and she relaxed a bit. Then she suddenly stood up and began pacing.
"Well, it all started when we were born, y'know. Our parents were parents. Get it? I'm trying to be funny here." Courtney paused for a moment. "Or not. Okay, well, when we were eight or nine, our parents made these new friends. Can't remember their names, but they were shady. Me and Mel didn't trust them. When we were...thirteen, I think, we accidentally learned that our parents were doing drugs. It wasn't just pot, either. They were doing Crack and Meth and stuff I can't even remember the names of. By that time, Mel and I'd been making sure the bills got paid and everything. A year later, our mom told Mel that she'd take care of a bill for Mel's diabetes stuff, and-"
"Whoa, you're diabetic?"
Melody shot a glare towards David and nodded her head a fraction of an inch.
"But why do you work in an ice cream shop?"
"Cuz I can." Melody's fists were clenched at her side, and she crossed them over her stomach in an effort to keep herself under control.
"Well, anyway, one of the bills didn't get paid, and Melody didn't get something. It wasn't anything she needed right away, but she still needed it soon. So there was this huge argument, everybody was screaming and everything, and Mom and Dad left. They were drunk and high, like they normally were. And they managed to drive into a ditch without seatbelts on, so they flew through the windshield and died almost immeadiately."
"That's so fucked up! 'Kids, wear your seatbelts all the time, especially if your mother's driving,''Kids, make sure you don't drink and fucking drive.'" Melody kicked the bottom of a couch and said somethign about needing to manage her anger better under her breath. Then she plopped down in the corner, elbows resting on her bent knees with her hands hanging limply in front of her, staring lifelessly ahead. "They'd have never left if I hadn't told Mom that she'd broken her promise. That's what started the whole thing. It's my fault for even trusting her in the first place."
"Mel, she was our mother, your supposed to be able to trust your parents. It was a good thing you brought it up. It's not your fault they left, it's theirs. You need to stop blaming yourself." Courtney had spoken in barely more than a whisper. "She feels like it's her fault, so it affects her worse than it does me." Courtney spoke to the guys and shook her head.
Melody jumped up. "I wanna do something crazy. Something I've never done before."
Everybody in the room gaped at her, including the burly security guard who was at the doorway, trying to disguise his tears.
"What?"
"You were just- You.." Sebastien shook his head at her, confusion written all over his face.
"What's something crazy that Schmee's never done?" Pierre pondered, looking at Courtney. She whispered something in his ear, and he raised his eyebrows at her, smirked, and said, "Perfect. C'mon."
He stood up and led the pack out of the room, and told Melody and Courtney to drive him and Seb in the jeep, and the other guys would take David's car.
"Where are we going?" Melody asked, truning the key in the ignition.
"David knows, just follow him," Pierre smirked from the backseat, fingers laced through Courtney's.
Melody raised her eyebrows at his reflection in the rearview mirror, but kept her mouth shut. She trusted the guys, for whatever stupid reason, and, for one thing, she'd never gone off with a group of random guys that happened to be rockstars, especially when she didn't have any idea what was going on.
Courtney leaned forward as Melody put the Jeep into gear. "You're the one that wanted to do something crazy, so blame yourself."