"I don't want to talk about it," Melissa responded.
"I know. You and Nick had a fight right?"
"Not exactly."
"A disagreement?"
"Like I said I don't want to talk about it!"
"Look Mel, you know I'm not going to leave you alone until you tell me."
"Okay I guess I have to tell you. I just feel so mixed up! I really like Nick but I'm not even sure if I'm in love with him or what. I think I am but how can I be really sure. I feel like I've known him forever you know?"
"I'll tell you a little secret. I feel the same way about AJ."
"You do?"
"Yea. So what happened between you and Nick?"
Melissa sighed and told her the whole story about what had happened. "Like I said before I feel all mixed up. There's a part of me who is mad at Nick a little bit and then there's a part saying it wasn't anything to be mad about. There's also a part that's wondering if I should have just let him keep on going," she admitted.
Just then there was a knock on the door and Meg got up to answer it. Maybe it's Nick coming to apologize Melissa thought.
It turned out to be AJ wanting to know if Meg wanted to hang out for a little bit.
"Can you come back a little later? I really have to talk to Melissa right now."
"Okay no problem. I understand."
"I heard that Nick wanted to talk to you about something."
"Okay I'll go find him right now and I'll see you later."
"Thanks AJ, for understanding."
"No problem."
As soon as AJ left Melissa said, "You didn't have to do that Meg. you could have went with AJ."
"I know I could have but right now I think you are more important."
"Thank you," Melissa told her.
"OK so where were we? O yea you were actually admitting that OMG Melissa Morgan is not a saint!"
"Shut up!" she told her as she rolled her eyes. "I'm a normal person too. It's just that I'm so confused. I really think I do love him but we only have a few more days and then he has to go back to Florida and I have to go back to NY and who knows if we will ever see each other again."
"O yea. Long distance relationships suck ass."
"It's not even that! By next week I might be dead!"
Megan realized this and immediately felt so stupid. It was just that lately Melissa was so happy that she totally forgot about her sickness.
"Do you really love him?" she asked.
"Well, yea. I guess I do."
"OK, then I'm going to tell you something that you might totally disagree with but you don't have a whole lifetime to wait for the perfect moment."
Melissa sighed. Somehow she knew she wasn't going to like this.
"OK first off you are totally blowing this whole thing out of proportion. You have to understand that all guys have hormones and every once in a while they get out of control. No biggie. You have to live with it. Secondly, you are 18 years old and yea you might die next week but hey I could die tomorrow. Anybody could die at any given time. Did you tell Nick about you being sick?"
"No, not yet. I don't know how he might react."
"Well, that could be both good and bad. Good because he won't treat you all weird and bad because if he really cares about you you'll end up hurting him in the long run."
"So what should I do?"
"I can't tell you what you should do but I could tell you what I'd do. Unfortunately since we are complete opposites you probably won't do this."
"What?"
"Well, I would try to do as many things that I've never done or gotten a chance to do before I die."
"Like?"
"Well, I don't want to shock you and try to get you to ruin your chances of sainthood but I definitely would not want to die a virgin."
"You don't mean..."
"Duh! Anyway you were the one who said that a part of you wished Nick would have kept on going."
"I said that?"
"Yea. Are you like suffering from short term memory?"
"O yea, now I remember I did say something like that. So what your saying is I should go have sex with Nick just for the experience?"
"Basically."
Melissa sighed, " Meg you are impossible! I ask you for advice and you just confuse me even more!"
"That's my job."
"What's with you? Meg told me Melissa told her that you said you needed to tell me something."
"I forgot what it was. Right now I have way too much on my mind,'" he told him.
"Aww, wanna tell me?"
"I had sort of a fight with Melissa."
"Over what?"
"Nothing I feel like talking about."
"C'mon you can tell me."
"OK fine. I had a huge fight with Erin this morning and tried to escape from everything by making out with Melissa and I got a little carried away."
"O, I see. Is she mad?"
"She says she's not but you know how it is."
AJ then remembered that Nick had no idea about Melissa's illness. If he knew he'd only feel worse. "You two have to make up," he told Nick.
"I want to but how?" he asked.
"I got an idea."