User:Blovedroses/sandbox

Plot
Though Melinda isn’t close to Rachel/Rachelle, ever since they had a fight about the party, she still cares about Rachel/Rachelle because of their long history as friends, and doesn’t want her to get hurt. She finally gets Rachel/Rachelle to talk to her at study hall, and tells for the first time, through the form of note passing, “what really happened” the night of the party. Rachel/Rachelle is sympathetic throughout the story until the end when Melinda confesses that it was Andy Evans, Rachel/Rachelle’s current boyfriend. To this Rachel/Rachelle is infuriated and believes that Melinda is a “Liar” and that she is “jealous”, then storms off. After a weekend of cooling off Rachel/Rachelle “ditche[s] Andy in the middle of prom” trusting her once friend Melinda. Melinda feels relieved and for once, since the end of summer, she feels “the frozen stillness melt down through [her],dripping shards of ice vanish in a puddle of sunlight in the stained floor. Words float up” and she can finally talk about what happened the night of the party.