Chapter 34: Held Up

Melissa's POV

When they yelled out in unison like that, I was convinced without a doubt that they were both out of their minds.

I hated the way they were making everyone look in our direction; it was too embarrassing.

"You know what, if the both of you are not going to stop this, I would have no choice but to walk away. I am not going to be a part of your noon madness."

I said this without looking at their faces as I made to walk away, but my ankle reacted again painfully, and I was already falling to the ground when a strong hand caught me.

I thought it was Landon. I mean, I didn't want to think it was Lex, but as I looked up at his face, I realised it was the same person who threatened to kill me.

" let me go!" I staggered backwards, pushing them away from myself as I limped back to the bed.

"How can you decide to leave a clinic when the nurses and doctors have not asked you to leave yet? How do you think?" Lex asked me, making me raise an eyebrow in surprise.

I glanced at Landon, who was staring at the both of us in silence, before moving my gaze back to Lex angrily.

"I was fine on my own, Lex. I never asked you to hold me, and you know what? If you really do not want me disobeying the doctors and nurses, you should get yourself out of here because your presence is already making me uncomfortable."

"Such a selfish way to speak to a person with migraine," he remarked, looking away from me. I couldn't help but chuckle because what exactly was he doing standing there with us when he should be getting medication for his migraine?

"Hello, nurse."

I called her to a nurse by my left who had not been taking her eyes off the both of them since they started arguing.

"What are you doing?" Lex asked me in a low voice, but I pretended not to hear.

The nurse walked over to me with a calm look she asked me if I wanted something.

"Yes, actually, nurse, we need your service here. Lex here is having a migraine which seems to be so terrible that all he wants to do is pick on people, so please can you help us attend to him and be sure he's not going crazy?"

I asked the nurse who was staring at me with wide eyes. She was obviously shocked at my words and perhaps the fact that I was talking about Lex the way I was, but I didn't care.

I turned my gaze slowly to see what his reaction would be like, but instead of getting offended, he suddenly began to laugh.

"It's a good thing that you care about me that much, Lisa. "I truly do have a migraine. I mean, after the heavy punch I received from Landon about an hour ago while trying to prove how much he likes you, I felt like I was going to run mad," Lex remarked, turning his gaze back to the nurse as he nodded in approval of her.

The nurse pointed in the opposite direction as they began to walk away.

For a second I tried to process what Lex said, and a part of me didn't want to take it seriously, but I found myself staring inquisitively at Landon.

"A punch?" I asked him in a calm voice, wondering what his reason would be.

He walks closer to me and places his hands on my shoulder. "You do not have to worry about that, Lisa; we are going to fix our differences," he said gently, his voice sounding like the Landon I first met.

"I do not want to worry Landon, but what is it about you trying to prove how much you like me? I mean, I thought this whole girlfriend thing was just to make the nurses attend to me faster than they would have if I were a complete nobody, but now you're fighting with Lex over me?" I asked him, completely curious.

" That's not true he only said that to get you worried. I know Lex; he was not going to leave here without a bomb, and that was it for him."

I nodded my head slowly in agreement as he spoke because that was definitely a bomb. I did not understand why the both of them would fight over me.

It was very impossible.

"You know, I think since it is going to be dismissal soon, I should go prepare my car because I'll be dropping you off," he said to me, but I quickly shook my head in disagreement. There was no way I was going to be driving out of that school gate with the second wealthiest guy in school.

"No, no way, Landon; you do not have to do that at all. I can totally get myself home. And I don't know why you're acting like it is your fault, but I am not faulting anyone. I mean, I expected Selena to do as much."

He was staring at me in silence all those times as I spoke, and I could almost feel myself blushing.

"That's so sweet of you, but I do not like to see people suffer when I could easily help them. I don't know; maybe it's because of the way I do not get much opportunity to help people. I feel like I should be doing more than I am doing."

"You don't have to do anything, Landon. This is not on you. Believe me, I am very fine. "

"If she says she's fine, then leave her alone. Why do you have to press?"

I knew that voice; we both knew that voice, but I refused to look in his direction, and only Landon looked behind.

"You really do not want to mind your business, Lex. Do you want me to punch you again?" Landon asked him, turning around completely now.