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 Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 5:07 pm
"The only thing, O'saint Melvin, that you did wrong." Her knuckles were turning white. "I've got just one word for you; Mik, and if that isn't enough to ring any bells for you - then - damn it Melvin. Damn you."
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 5:20 pm
"Damn me? Why? Because he consented and was responsive and we both have a moment? Is that why you are upset? Or is it because you feel I'm some pervert who took advantage of a bond? That he was vulnerable and I acted like a predator? Go on. We have plenty of time to kill. Let me have it."
To make his point clear, he turned off the screen to his tablet and set it down on his lap, waiting.
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 5:25 pm
"The latter and you already know it, Melvin." She did look genuinely appalled by his first description. Shaking her head 'no' firmly the whole time.
She crossed her arms firmly across her chest and glued her eyes on the ocean.
"I can't even look at you without feeling hurt."
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 5:27 pm
"Why? You two constantly fought with each other. You're not his sister. You aren't dating. I don't see what YOU are the one hurt here." Out of a subject that made Mik the victim, he didn't see how she was also one.
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 5:33 pm
She didn't really mean it like that, but honestly there was some personal hurt out of it and she hadn't really realized that until now. "It draws everything about you; everything you said, everything you did, everything you were to me into question."
She glared at the glass that separated them from the water.
"I trusted you and yet you were just a pervert looking for an easy time with us. With him for sure. I may not be his sister, but it's obvious something is off about him and it's like. It definitely feels like you took advantage of that. Can someone who doesn't even know how to bathe himself really give consent? I mean that seriously. And you were almost his DAD, at that. Like seriously think about it. If instead of cheating, Lawr told you he wanted marriage."
"Boom. Mik's dad."
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 6:04 pm
"Mik isn't an idiot. He may have had a terrible time being raised, but you are basically saying he is mentally handicapped and needs constant supervision. He's an adult, and one that is curious about sex just as much as you were when you came to me asking advice. I'm not your dad just as much as I'm not his dad. And don't even start with Lawr. He gets ideas in his head about marriage because of an ideal of stability and home. I didn't ask to marry him in all the time I've been with him for a reason so no, I wouldn't have been his father. I wouldn't have taken him to the backyard to throw a baseball around and called him Sport."
"And don't make it sound like I was only in the house to get laid by either one of you. I was only with Lawr. I BUILD that house with him and Lawr invited you to live there. I was only with Lawr for years. I didn't sleep around in the entirely I was with Lawr. I wasn't scoping the playing field for other people. You should have been more concerned about Lawr being a culprit."
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 6:18 pm
"Don't remind me, it makes me sick that I trusted you in that way. I honestly did think of you almost like a father."
"I trusted you when I really shouldn't have. There is nothing you could say to make it seem even slightly okay to me. You were dating Lawr, super seriously, can you honestly say you wouldn't have married him if he asked? But the moment that fell through, you groped his son. Like. The sheer fact he doesn't think that's wrong tells me something is wrong with him and maybe his consent isn't really the consent of someone in their right mind. He wanted you to have sex with him. AFTER you got a serious STD from his father. Does that sound normal to you? Does that sound like good clean reliable consent to you? It just doesn't to me and I can't help that."
She was glaring now as tears started streaming down her cheeks. "It feels all kinds of wrong."
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 6:25 pm
He watched her as the tears bubbled in her eyes before he stared back out into the water. "You're right to not trust me. It's better that you moved."
"....but I didn't help you and listen to you just to get in your pants. As for the rest.....................yeah. You're not wrong." He turned his tablet over and turned it back on.
"I would have only married Lawr as a motive to keep him. Not for what it stands for. If I had Lawr, Mik would have never been an option." He flipped through the screens he was working on.
"You don't have to help feeling a certain way. Wrong is wrong."
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 6:39 pm
Melody kept staring out into the ocean, emotions still bubbling out of her control but now she wasn't talking. She didn't know what to say to that. Just why. It all seemed so senseless.
She did like Mik, he didn't like her. But that was a small grain of almost nothing in the grand scheme of what made this so horrible. Some of it she couldn't even explain. Just an instinctual revulsion.
She was breathing raggedly as she wiped her eyes off on a sleeve.
"Everything is just so messed up." She finally spoke.
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 7:34 pm
"Yes. It is. Very messed up." He flipped through to the next screen.
He couldn't hug her. He couldn't offer her words. There was nothing he could give her that wouldn't otherwise be offensive. There was no redeeming light.
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 7:36 pm
There was another pause as she tried to get herself under control and get her voice clear enough to speak. "Do you at least regret it?"
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 7:41 pm
He paused and looked over at her. "Would it change anything about how you feel about me if I said yes? Would my trust suddenly be resorted?"
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 7:44 pm
"That's not a fair question, of course trust doesn't work like that." She sighed and finally peered at him, looking more exhausted than she has ever looked before. "I just want to know."
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Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 8:04 pm
"I regret that I rushed into being close with him. Given more time, I would have liked a more ideal moment than in the jungle. Despite the relationship to Lawr, the blood between them, I do know it's wrong."
"Still."
"I do not regret being with him. I never ever saw him as a child to me. He seemed more like a freshman in college I would meet if I was still in school. Because he wasn't raised by Lawr, he stands separate to him as his own entity because of his personality, but I won't lie that the minute similarities weren't appealing. I was desperate, but I find myself more desperate every day. I frankly have given up caring about the wants and desires of other people or I'm telling myself that now. I'm a broken, weak person and I am so very tired of giving with absolutely nothing to show for it."
His eyes traveled out into the water depths. "I think that if the island sank slowly one day, I think it would be for the better because so much trash could finally be washed away, myself included."
He looked back down at his tablet. "It was better you left."
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Posted: Wed May 10, 2017 7:24 am
It all just sounded like excuses. Melvin didn't really think what he did was wrong. She didn't really expect him to, but that fact somehow made what he did even worse. She crossed her legs and hung her shoe off her foot by her toes. Trying to give herself something to actually look at as her brows furrowed and gaze focused on it.
"Trash?" she repeated his word with evident anger. "That's a lot of people you're talking about. Most of them you never even met. You think it's okay for everyone to die just because you can't get ahold of yourself?"
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