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Even though Jack wasn’t completely avoiding her, he wasn’t exactly wanting to spend time with her either. Most of the time they spent together was also with Dash, who acted as a mediator between the two, keeping everyone sane. Dash continued to be her support system, she didn’t knew what she’d done to deserve his friendship, or any of the friendship she had, and then pushed away. She had missed him so much in those days apart it was killing her not being able to be with him like before. They were always close, they had to be, they got each other. Even though now they spent their time together, physically, Mel felt like there was rift between them, emotionally, one that she created herself. Ever since he was born, she always thought of how she should address the Barrel situation to Jack and she kept avoiding dealing with it, until he asked her about it and she replied with a vague explanation, avoiding any kind of explanation. But now that they were settling into town, she knew she couldn’t continue to sweep this issue under the rug and pretend that it didn’t matter. It was wishful thinking that when she would tell Jack the truth about Barrel, he would accept it no matter what, no questions asked. Even with Barrel, she understood that this was something that took time to think about, process. But, sooner or later they needed to discuss Jack, they couldn’t continue dancing around the subject, hoping that it’ll all fall into place. And besides, she couldn’t keep them apart anymore, it wasn’t right, not know that they knew of the truth of it Melody decided that she needed to figure out this whole situation they couldn’t drag this on forever. Making her way to his apartment it felt weird, although familiar in equal measures – weirdly familiar. As Mel stood there in front of his apartment door, she thought that she should have sent him a message letting him know she was coming around. She knocked on the door, biting her nails waiting for his answer.












