That was the plan.

“I think it will be the best, Melody. Ever since it happened you have been avoiding me like the plague and with good reason. I am sorry for what I did to you, I wish I could take back all that I have done, but I can’t. All I can really do is give you some more space.”

Melody just stares at you, by now her tears are flowing like a waterfall. Then, suddenly she steps up to you and hits you. Or at least she tries, you are barely able to block her wild swings as she continues to, but after a few moments you are able to catch her hands in yours and hold her down. She continues to struggle for another minute or so until she finally gives up. As you let her go she simply sinks to the floor, burying her face in her hands and sobbing loudly. It takes you a while, but you try to talk to her once more.

“Melody…”

“…”

“Is there any way out of this mess? If you don’t see one, I will send you as much money as I can spare and you won’t ever have to see my face again.”

She looks up at you now, you are relieved at first that she has stopped to sob but then you notice a flicker of madness gleaming in her bloodshot emerald eyes. She raises her right hand once more, at first you think she is going to hit you, but for some reason you realize just in time that she won’t.

You catch her Hand just before it hits her stomach.

“Melody! What the hell was that?”
You yell at her angrily.

“Let me go! Let me go you are hurting me!”

Reluctantly you let her go, but you stay close enough to her so you could stop another punch.

“Why?”

“Why what?”

“Why do you protect that child? You don’t even want to see it or me anyway!”

“That is not true! I would like to see him or her and I would like to see you, but you don’t want to see me so I will oblige.”

“What?”

“I said that I would like to see both of you, but from how our friendship has gone down the drain, I doubt that you want me to be around, let alone be the father of your child.”

“But I did.”

“See, I... wait, what?”
It takes you a second to realize what Melody has said.

“Now that you are leaving anyway, I might as well come clean. I wanted to sleep with you. I just got too drunk when it finally happened. So it was my fault, not yours. I wanted you to be with me, I wanted you to want to be with me, but this won’t happen, now will it?”

“Melody, I…”

“NO! I don’t want this child, not like this, not without you! I am sorry that I was so awkward around you, but I did not know how to explain why I slept with you. Sure I was drunk, but I had planned on it the entire way home. Yet I never got around to it and now you are leaving me. Just, just tell me one thing Jack, was there ever a chance for us to be together?”

Your voice is shaking as you answer her question with another.
“Why do you ask?”

Her face is strangely calm as she looks at you, yet her tears continue to flow.
“Because I want to know if I only lost my best friend or if I even managed to screw up the love of my life.”

It takes you a while, but after what feels like hours you finally make a decision.