Melody came home the next morning about 8am. Of course I wasn't at her place because I didn't want to be rude so I was woken up by the sound of my phone I tried to lean over Dan without waking him up. When he stirred awake I gave up and just climbed over him to get to the table.

Hey Abbey,
You're probably asleep. Well not anymore but anyway I'm back.
Come over when you're fully up and ready.
Mel xx

I sighed and turned back to Dan. He was looking at me with half asleep eyes, his hair sticking up at weird angles from sleep. He looked perfect. I climbed back into bed and made him move backwards a bit. He lay there with his arm draped around my waist. I loved this time in the morning when we just lay together. Just as I was almost asleep, the door flew open. In the doorway stood Dan's younger sister Meg.

"I thought I never heard you come back to your room Dan. When mum and Dan find out that you spent the night in here they're not going to be impressed."

"Go away Meg." He mumbled into my hair.

"Oh so you're happy for me to tell mum and dad?"

"I didn't say that."

I decided that it was time I contribute to this conversation. "Meg, don't tell them. It's not like we were breaking any rules. Nothing happened. Just go back into your room okay?"

Meg just rolled her eyes and walked out of the room, closing the door behind her.

"Nothing hey?" Dan whispered into my ear. I laughed and shook my head. He was too dirty minded sometimes. I snuggled closer into him and went back to sleep.

~~~

It was 10am before I was awake enough to get changed and drive to Melody's place, Dan had offered to come but I told him that I would be fine. The house looked the same but there was something in the perfectly manicured lawn and garden that portrayed the sadness within the house itself. I walked across the lawn up to the front door, knocked and waited for someone to answer.

The door swung open seconds later, revealing a fresh-looking, tanned Melody, smiling a sad smile as she looked at me. She let me in silently and we both went up to her room and sat on her bed.

"You're so much more.. pregnant than I remember." Was the first thing she said. I laughed at that, my bump had grown since the last time she had seen me.

"Yeah, the baby has grown. It's making me feel like a whale."

"Have you found out what it is?"

"No and I don't want to either. Dan kinda wants to know you can tell, although he keeps reassuring me that he doesn't."

"Of course. How is he?"

"Yeah he's good..." I could feel myself blushing as I thought about him but this time I didn't really mind as much as usual. "How was the holiday?"

"Oh yeah, it was good. Although I swear I never wear enough sunscreen. I got so burnt. But now I'm tanned af."

"Did you just say 'af'?"

"Oh shut up I spent too much time on Tumblr too. What's changed since I left?" A lot had changed. She had changed.

"Oh, not much. Although turns out Dan's dad isn't as supportive as he's pretending to be." She frowned.

"What do you mean?"

"He wants us to give up the baby for adoption. I'm keeping this baby Mel. No matter what happens. I'm keeping it. It's going to be hard, I know that but I'm prepared to make sacrifices for it."

"What does Dan want to do?"

"He wants to keep it too. At least I think he does, he was not happy when his dad said that."

"If he ditches you, I'm going to kill him."

"Oh you have my permission." There was a long silence between us, but it wasn't unsettling. Melody made everything feel normal again. "Hey, my stuff is in the car. Do you want to help me bring it up?"

"Sure." Melody followed me downstairs and carried one suitcase while I carried the other. "How much of your stuff is still in my house?"

"Most of it. I only took a few changes of clothes with me and a few shoes.. By that I mean that heavy suitcase is full of different clothes and this light one is full of shoes."

"Of course you gave me the heavy one."

"What? Do you expect the pregnant lady to carry the heavy one and endanger the baby?" As much as I could joke about it, that was my biggest fear. Not that we wouldn't have the money for a baby but that I would lose the baby. Although this little baby wasn't planned and the circumstances were hardly ideal, I wouldn't know what to do if this something happened to it.

"Hey, earth to Abbey.."

"Yeah? Oh I'm back, sorry." We carried the two suitcases up to the spare bedroom and for the first time I noticed the door to Eliza's bedroom was closed shut. What was I thinking, that it would be empty? It was obvious that Melody wasn't the same as she was before Riley broke her heart. "Hey, I have something fun for us to do."

"What? Please don't go around setting me up with some guy that you know. I'm not really ready for that."

"Of course not. It's got more to do with the last guy of yours.."