Page 5 of Wasted Oil

Walk this way.

You and me babe..

Hey Hey

Alex has a mean air drum going on while I’m playing my air guitar and we are both on the couch head banging to the all time classic Pour some sugar on me by Def Leppard.

Once the movie ended. RJ headed to bed and us girls moved to the basement so we can stay up longer but also so we don’t wake everyone up with the dance party we instantly started the moment we got down here.

We start to wind down from our epic rockstar moment and turn the tv on and settle on to the huge sectional couch with our sleeping bags. I love nights like these with my bestie. I have this huge gut feeling we won’t get another night like this anytime soon.

“Truth or Dare Mav?” Looking up at the ceiling and biting the inside of my cheek I take a deep breath.

"Dare.” Twiddling my thumbs I wait for her to give me something. Remember me saying she is Lucifer in the flesh?

"I dare you to finally kiss Rhett.”

I close my eyes and with my lips in a thin line I breathe in and exhale, “okay, I will.”

Al lifts her head up really fast to look at me. "Shut the front door, really?”

I lift my pinky up and she connects hers with mine.

"I could kiss you right now I’m so proud.” She jokes.

"Don’t tempt me to a good time.” I tease back.

"Yeah right, we both know you couldn’t handle all this.” She says while dramatically running her hand from her ankle and up while she lays on her side perched up on her elbow. I laugh and throw a pillow at her and we fall silent watching Sex and the City reruns.

Moments later I know she’s sleeping from the long gentle breaths coming from her side of the couch. I however am in my head per usual.

What if Rhett rejects me? I’m not his type. —You know what screw that I'm tired of living scared.

"I just want to thank everyone for coming to celebrate Melanie with us on graduating high school, 2nd in her class.” Cheers and claps surround my ears. I gave a short thank you wave to everyone that was looking at me.

"And for her being in the top five of her class, I would like to give her a little gift.” My dad was up on the makeshift stage, thanking everyone for coming out to my graduation party. I lean over to my mom where we are sitting and whisper to her.

"What gift does dad have planned?” My mom looks at me, her brown locks flipping over her shoulder.

"I have no clue mi amor, maybe he got you a new car?” She says while shrugging.I stand up and look over to Alex as she just shrugs her shoulders. I’m just about to walk to my father when he starts speaking again.

"Everyone.” He looks over to where I’m standing and gives me another one of his dazzling smile.

"Mel baby girl, you worked so hard in high school. I’m so proud. I always knew you would do it.” I vomit a little in my mouth at his speech, this is all for show and I couldn’t get out of there. It was like my feet were glued to the ground.

"Twenty years ago I was handed my dream baby girl, and while you were not born yet, I knew that when the company was handed down to me eventually it would go automatically to my first born.”

No god please no, don’t let him do what I think he is about to do. My thoughts start racing a mile a minute. He smiled at me once more, but this smile was that of a villain's smile. The ones where you can see the evil look in his eyes and his lips curled high up into his cheek bones. This is bad, this is very bad. My thoughts warn me again.

"Come on up here baby girl.” He extended his hand to me. I blacked out from the time of standing up and walking towards him.

“Melanie, my first born. My gift to you is the president position to Alvarez Oil Company then later once I step down to have you be CEO!”

My ears ring as cheers erupted throughout the backyard of my house. My father just sold me out in front of everyone. I look over to my mother who is just about as shocked as I am.This is all too much, everyone was happy to hear that I was to someday take over the family company. All of them but me.

To everyone on the outside looking in they see this has the greatest hand out to ever get but I see it as a deal with the devil.

There's a saying that people use all the time, If you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say nothing at all. Well right now at this moment this isn't one of those times to keep my mouth shut. It was more of a moment of word vomit.

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