Where had the time gone? How could he get it back? Simner didn't know anymore. He wanted so much for everything to go back to the way it was. He couldn't stand being away from everyone, so he came back, He didn't know for how long, but he knew he wanted to savor the time he did have. Katherine's downward spiral landed her at rock bottom. If six feet under constitutes rock bottom, maybe it doesn't. Simner didn't cry at Katherine's funeral. He didn't see the point. He couldn't get back to that time, and he didn't want to. He knew he just had to blaze forward, like a trail of pine needles with a fuse at one end just flowing on through.
Simner seemed to have gone on a downward spiral, also. His moods had increased, it seemed to go up with the amount of debt he had to pay off, monetary and otherwise.He just wished it would all be alright, again. Like when Rogue had been back...

OOC: Props for the title, by the way. lol.

IC:

*As if Melanie's life hadn't been a downward spiral as well. She was having the time of her life for a while- but Sentinus...as soon as she agreed to follow him, it went bad again. Her friends and brothers turned against her, eventually Liam did, too. It got to the point that she felt like she was abandoned by everyone in the world except Mark, who she was clinging to for dear life. Eventually she abandoned The Family, which let her even more alone. Liam broke up with her and made everything so much harder. She couldn't let Mark out of her site for weeks, afraid of what she might do. She still loved him....Then Harshing got the idea that finding someone new to pick on instead of Kiley was in line, and she had always been his second favorite. His fun went too far when he kidnapped Mark. She still hadn't found him.....Right now she was living off of the hope that Mark would be back eventually, and he would need her then.

Things were...well, not looking up exactly, but she at least had someone to talk to now that Aiden was around. Harshing was trying to stop him and Tristan from being gay, so he found them both girls to make their girlfriends. It was a lot better than she thought it would be. Aiden was so nice...he would sit and listen to her for as long as she needed.

She needed something familiar though.

And that was exactly what she though as she was walking around the grounds (Aiden had convinced her to get some fresh air some how). By chance, she looked up and saw what she needed. Melanie stared for a few seconds to make sure she wasn't imagining him. Suddenly, everything that had happened to her didn't matter at all. She started running as fast as she could towards him (which was pretty fast).*

Melanie;"SIMNER!" *She squealed when she was mere feet away from colliding with him.*




~Mel

*Simner was completely immersed in his own thoughts to realize the people around him, that is, of course, until he heard his name yelled at the volume of a jet plane. Simner looked up just in time to see a body flying towards him at the speed of a jet plane. He assumed this was merely a coincidence. Once he had a few seconds to take it all in, he realized who the body belonged to none other than Miss Melanie Hunter.*\
"MELANIE!" Simner yelled, sounding very shocked. "How are you? It's been quite a while." Simner's tone had gone down to a very casual, not at all sounding as though he was very much excited to see her. He was just better at containing it than most.

*Melanie hugged him, putting in as much strength as she could.*
Melanie:"Simner, I miss you." *she confessed.*"I miss you so much...I don't event think you understand." *she started to cry quietly, holding on to him even tighter.*"I need you so much."





~Mel

"Simner put his arms around her is a sort of forced hug. He did want to hug her, he just hadn't hugged many people lately. He had almost forgotten what it felt like.* "How are you, Mel? Taking care of yourself?" * He asked, but he knew it was a stupid question by what she had said. He started to hug her a little tighter. He could feel the warmth of her body on his cold flesh. He heard her start crying, but he didn't want her to.*

Melanie:"No...well...yes, but...I can't do this anymore. It's too much for me- I feel like I'm going to explode. I've been a complete waste of time for months." *she attempted to explain*"I just...I need you to stay. I need someone."




~Mel

"Well, Mel, what happened? Last I knew everything was okay. You were with Liam and it seemed okay... what happened?" *Simner just couldn't fathom what could have been going on in the time he had been gone. He whispered that he wouldn't leave, in her ear, as to calm her down*. "Now, why don't you just let it all spill."

Melanie:"Okay, okay, fine!" *she exclaimed, not really wanting to, knowing that it would only lead to emotional vomiting, but at the same time, wanting nothing more than to have her best friend try to comfort her*"I went with Sentinus because I'm an animagus now and he promised that he would teach me things and that I would finally be better than Kiley, but I wasn't, because she started The Resistance, and she ended up hating me. When Alex and Ian found out, they were angry too. Liam wasn't though, he came with me. Everything fell apart so quickly after that. I realized that I hated Sentinus and I didn't want to be a part of his...sadism anymore. So I came back to Hogwarts and...I don't even know what happened, but Liam broke up with me and he took Mark away from me for weeks. Alex was the only one who even noticed me because everyone else was busy fighting. I got really sick and Liam never even came to visit me in the hospital. I was starting to do better, but then Harshing....Well, he and Kiley are on good terms now, so he needed someone else to destroy, and I've always been next in line, so why not? I had this Personal Behavior Meetings where he would beat me and try to get me to change. Then....He stole Mark. He took him and I haven't found him yet." *Melanie's panic began to escalate at this point*"I've tried so hard...they keep promising me that they'll find him and get him back to me but he's not back yet and it's been almost a month. I'm scared, and worried, and lost....I don't know what to do anymore. I'm trying to hard to keep believing that he's okay, but it's hard. It's so hard and I'm getting so tired. I have to convince myself that Mark's going to come back otherwise...I might...go back to how I was before and I can't do that! I can't, I promised myself that I wouldn't! I promised that I would get better. And I don't have anyone to talk to...no one really hears me."




~Mel

*Simner listened intently. His feeling of pity was growing, but didn't show in his cold face. He didn't want Melanie to be sad, but he knew there wasn't much he could do about it. He help her close in his arms.* "I will listen... I have always told you that. It has never changed. I know how hard it was to try and leave The Family, but I am proud of you" * he said this kind of like a father, Without much emotion in his voice.

Melanie:"You're the only one. Everyone else hates me...except for Aiden." *she remembered. That calmed her down a little bit*"Except for Aiden. He cares about me. He likes me. Not how I need him to, though. I need him to be like you...but...now I have you so it doesn't matter." *She explained stupidly.*



~Mel

*Simner felt horrible. He felt guilty that he was the only person Melanie had. He didn't know how antiquate a friend he would be. He wanted to be the best friend, but that was probably impossible. He couldn't even sort out his own life, he didn't know how he would be able to sort someone else's out.* "I know...." *was all he could say.*