Nick walked solemnly into his apartment, feeling a couple of words bounce around in his head. He knew that he either had to get them out of his head and on paper or it would drive him nuts. But as soon as his tired, brown eyes stitched onto a familiar green ones, he froze. “Melanie?” he questioned. The nervous girl flipped her curls around her shoulder, giving him an impish smile, “Um…hi?” Nick was surrounded, trapped, even though it was just one person in the room. But it wasn’t just one person. It was Melanie. The one who walked away from him after going off to fulfill a dream on Broadway, leaving Nick broken-hearted on stage as Marius. Needless to say that he never bounced back from that, and every day since he’s been a walking travesty ever since. “Wha…what are you doing here?” he asked. Melanie stood erect from the couch she was sitting on and swallowed her nerves. Nick pressed his back against the door he just walked through, becoming instantly afraid of what was going on. Did Kevin and Joe do this to get back at him? Or was it someone else? Who would do something so evil. “Um…” she started softly, “I know that it’s not my place to apologize for what I did to you, and I don’t expect you do reply or forgive me but um…I’m sorry for leaving you when you really needed me. And I’m sorry that I couldn’t be the perfect girlfriend to you, you know, supporting your dreams…” Melanie stopped speaking to walk dangerously close to Nick, making his breath climb in his throat, like she was a feral feline about to rip his heart out…again. Melanie gave one last look into his dark brown eyes and slowly, softly, leaned towards him to give him one of the most sincere kisses she could ever muster. Nick pulled away immediately, sensing something wasn’t right and he stood there, trying to think of anything to say, but silence was all he could come up with. He swallowed, and then immediately threw his original conscience out of the window as he kissed Melanie again, releasing all the feelings he missed showing her.