Chapter 36

Melanie's POV

"Stop; Wes!" I squeal, and he keeps tickling me.

Right now I'm at his apartment and he started tickling me and he knows how much I hate being tickled.

"Not unless you give me a kiss."

"Okay, fine! Fine." I say, laughing too hard.

He stops and I finally can breathe. I flip us over so I'm straddling his waist and I lean down to kiss him slowly and he kisses back immediately.

I pull back and look down at him. He looks beautiful. I look at his eyebrow and notice a piercing in it and I run my fingers over it.

"Why'd you pierce your eyebrow?"

"I don't know.. I thought it was cool and why not."

"Hmmm." I say.

"Does it turn you on?" He asks and smirks at me.

"I won't be the one to tell you that." I say and I giggle a bit as he scoffs.

"Fine then." He says and rolls me off of him.

"So what's this new job you're working at?" I ask, laying on my stomach and I watch him get up, changing his shirt.

"It's pretty much the same thing as last time, I'm just a personal trainer.. Nothing big." He says and I nod.

He comes back over to the bed to sit down and I move to sit on his lap.

"Wes?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you really still love me?"

"Of course."

"I just find it hard to believe that after all this time and after everything that you still love me."

"I'm never going to stop loving you, Melanie. You mean a lot to me. Even if we're not seeing each other."

"I wish we could just run away from all of our troubles."

"You want to run away with me?"

"Yeah, but that's just unrealistic. It'd never work."

"I know.. Can you please just give us another chance? You're not dating that scumbag anymore."

"I don't know, Wes. It's just so hard."

"What's so hard?"

"Just getting back together is. I don't want you to hurt me and I don't want to hurt you either."

He puts a hand to my cheek and I try not to cry.

"Baby, you need to trust me. I-I love you so much."

"I'll give you one chance.." I say and he gives me a big smile and attacks my face with kisses.

"Thank you so much, babe." He says and I give him a smile.

"I gotta go shopping and you're coming with me."

"Nooo, I don't want to go. Shopping is boring." He literally whines and I roll my eyes.

"Just for a few hours. Come on." I say and I get up.

"Ugh." He mutters and I shake my head.

I slip my shoes on and grab my purse and Wesley follows me out to the car. I get into the passenger side and Wesley drives us to the mall.

I drag him by his hand into Victoria's Secret and he wanders off while I look through the bras.

"You should get these." Wesley says, smirking at me as he comes up with a black lace lingerie set and I roll my eyes.

"In your dreams." I say and he groans.

"Can you at least try them on for me?" He asks, smiling cheekily and I raise an eyebrow at him. "Please.. For me?"

I think about it for a second and I roll my eyes again, grabbing the set of bra and underwear and I head to the fitting room. Wesley follows quickly and I walk into one of the fitting rooms.

I try it on and I just look at myself in the mirror. I take a few minutes and I begin to chicken out.

"Babe, hurry up. No one's out here."

"Hold on."

I take a deep breath and a few minutes later I step out of the fitting room, and Wesley rakes his eyes down my body, his jaw dropping.

"Holy fuck." He blurts, and I see the obvious bulge through his pants.

"Can I change now?" I ask, putting my hands on my hips.

"No, come here." He says, getting up and he takes my hand and leads me back in the fitting room.

He presses me against the wall, using his body and I feel his bulge against my leg.

"Wesley." I breathe out, and he presses his lips against my neck. "S-stop."

"Why?" He mumbles against my neck and I try not to moan.

"Because.. T-there's other people in the store. They c-could come in at any moment." I stutter.

"We'll be silent.." He mutters and he comes back up to look at me and I see the lust in his eyes.

"Wes, I-" he cuts me off, pressing a finger to my lips.

"Shhh." He says and I nod slowly.

He begins to kiss me roughly and I start to take off his clothes silently. Once I get them off, he slides my underwear down and takes my bra off, our lips still attached...

-

"Fuck." I breathe out and try and get my clothes on quickly.

Wesley does as well and he smirks at me the whole time. He puts the lingerie back on the hanger and takes my hand.

"We're buying this." He whispers into my ear and my cheeks flush.

I take it from him, and head over to the register, buying the lingerie.

"You should've bought that." I said as we headed out of the store.

"And why's that?"

"Because, it is for you. I'll be wearing it for you so you should've bought it."

"I'll buy you lunch then, yeah?" He says and I giggle.

"Fine." I say and we head down the to the next store and he grabs my hand, lacing our fingers together.

Wesley leans over to kiss my cheek, and I giggle. I look down the hallway and see Damon and I look down quickly. I try and lead Wesley the other way, trying to avoid Damon.

"What's wrong?" Wesley asks, laughing a bit.

"I see Damon.. Now hurry up." I say and I lead Wesley and I out of the mall.

"Are you okay?" He asks as I breathe heavily once we get out of the mall.

I squat down against the wall, and look up at Wesley.

"Why were you trying to get away from him so fast?"

"Because.. Wesley I haven't been completely honest with you."

"What do you mean?"

"Damon.. He used to sexually abuse me. I-I was convinced that I loved him but I didn't. He just used me for sex and once he realized that I kissed you he wanted nothing to do with me. That's why he made me get out of the car." I say, and the tears fall down my face.

"He what?! I swear to God, I'm gonna beat that asshole." He yells, and he heads toward the mall entrance.

I get up quickly and I run over to him, and I get in front of him before he can reach the entrance.

"Please don't. Wesley, you haven't been in my life for 2 years you have nothing to do with this."

"Melanie, I still fucking care about you! Get out of my way so I can treat that fucker a lesson!" He yells and I hold him back.

"You're just going to make it worse. Let's just go home, okay?" It feels good to say that again even though I'm just spending a few nights at his place until I can get my own.

"Fine." He mumbles and I take his hand, leading us to the car.

He gets in and I get in the passenger seat.

"Wesley, did you ever date anybody these past two years?"

"Nope."

"Why not?"

"I wasn't going to date in case you decided to come back to me."

"How many girls have you slept with these past two years, then?"

"You don't wanna know." He says, and I nod, looking out the window.

When we get back to his apartment, I go sit down in the couch and turn on the tv. Wesley comes over and sits down next to me and I lay my head down on his lap.

"So did your brother ever get married?" Wesley asks and I look up at him.

"No... The girl he was supposed to marry bailed out on the marriage for some unknown reason. Broke my brother's heart."

"Wow, that sucks."

"Yeah.. I kind of have them a chance at the beginning and he really did love her."

"Well at least he's not gonna be stuck with her his whole life."

"Yep, that would suck."

When I'm about to turn my attention back on to the tv, there's a knock on the door.

"That's weird. I wonder who that could be." I mumble, getting up.

I go to the door and answer it and see Damon standing there and he presses a gun to my forehead.

"Damon." I say, shakily and I close my eyes as I stand there in shock.

"Back the fuck up or I'll shoot you." He spits and I do.

I look over to see Wesley and he's horrified. He gets up and slowly walks over and Damon points the gun towards him.

"Stop!" I scream and Wesley looks over to me.

"Melanie, I'm going to kill your little lover and then I'm going to take you back to my place. Shut the fuck up or I'll kill you too." He says and the tears stream down my face.

Damon clicks the gun and I run towards them at the last second and I hear the gun go off. I almost get there in time but I see Wesley fall to the floor. I drop to the floor to him and climb on top of him.

"Wesley!" I scream, and his eyes are hooded as he looks up at me.

I look up to see Damon standing there and he looks stunned for some stupid fucking reason.

"Get the fuck out of here!" I yell and he puts his hands up, walking out.

"Wesley, please stay with me baby." I plead, and I continue to cry uncontrollably.

I look to see where he got hit and it's on his lower stomach. I grab my phone quickly and call 911, making sure Wesley's breathing at the same time.

"911, what's your emergency?"

"Um, my boyfriend has been shot in his apartment and I need help. P-please. Just help him." I stutter.

"Okay m'am.. I need you to stay calm and tell me your address."

I tell her and Wesley's eyes begin to shut a bit.

"Please hurry!" I scream into the phone.

"Okay, we have an ambulance on the way. They'll be there in a couple of minutes. Now I need you to get some kind of towel and wrap it around the wound so he doesn't loose any more blood than he already has. Is he breathing?"

"Yeah." I say after checking his pulse.

I get a towel and wrap it around his waist where he's bleeding.

"Please stay with me Wes." I say and I put my hand to his cheek.

He looks up at me and he looks teary eyed and his eyes look dilated.

"EMT's, open up!" I hear a knock on the door and I hang up my phone and get off of Wesley to open the door.

The EMT's rush in and attend to Wesley quickly and get him on a stretcher. I follow them on the ambulance, and I begin to cry harder as I realize Wesley could possibly die any minute.

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