ATTACHED

Chapter Twenty One : Didn't see that coming

                                      DENVER.

"What?"

"He came here?" I ask failing to believe my ears and also feeling guilty for coming late even though I knew he was coming over to her house.

"Are you okay?" I ask looking her over and she nods wordlessly. We are caught in a moment we can't pull away from. We stare at each other trying to read each other's thoughts but I doubt we can actually read each other, I know I can't read her right now. It's like she's closed off from me. Why? I'm not sure, maybe it's because I've been distancing myself from her but I have genuine reasons. After what that strange guy told me, I'm not sure I can risk Sia's life by being around her a lot. Now, I don't know what to do or say after hearing that he came over. I wonder what he told her while he was here.   "Hey, what did he say to you?" She sighs tiredly and speaks.

"He said you two have met? Why didn't you tell me anything?" She asks with a look of hurt on her face and I feel instantly bad for keeping it from her thinking it was for her own good. She raises an impatient eyebrow waiting for an answer and I tag my hair in distress.

"I'm sorry Sierra, okay?" I begin and she closes her eyes like she didn't like me calling her by her full name and that flutters me a bit. She's pissed at me but she still feels bad when I don't call her nicknames like sunshine and so on but now is not the time for this. I shake my head to rid myself from the thoughts and continue.

"I'm really sorry. I didn't want to scare you by telling you that your attacker came over to my house. I thought that....that maybe he would stick to me and leave you out of this but I was wrong." I say and blow out a breath through my nose.

"Well you really thought wrong! A fucking psycho came into my house telling me to choose whether to fight him like you did oh yeah which reminds me. He said he stabbed you in the stomach," She glares at me which takes me back to that day I visited her at the hospital for the last time and she asked why I groaned in pain after stretching and I lied to her. God, I'm so shitty.

"No shit." She replies and I realise I said that last part out loud and I sigh knowing I won't earn her forgiveness easily.

"I'm fucked up I know. I lied to you, that is the truth but I thought I was protecting you Sia." I explain and immediately regret what I just said when I see the daggers she's sending my way with her eyes. She's scary when angry but I deserve it so I clear my throat and let her speak.

"Hold it right there mister. Who gives you the permission to choose for me what I should know and what I shouldn't?" She asks in anger but in an eerily calm way. Oh God.   "Sia, I wanted to protect you."

"Protect me from what? A weirdo that came to my house anyway? Wow Den, you're doing really good at this protecting thing," She scoffs. Okay that's it.

"You think I didn't want to come here earlier? Before that man came here?"

"You knew?" I wince.   "Yes, yes I knew but I tried to get here as fast as I could but my car broke down like I told you. I jogged all the way here for you Sia." She laughs humourlessly.

"Oh so now we're guilt tripping huh? I didn't fucking ask for your help. I never asked for it and more so from someone that kept information about my attacker from me! You even lied, Denver. You told me that it was just an injury. You thought I couldn't take the news? You thought that I was too weak I couldn't handle it? You could have told me earlier that he was going to come to my house and I did something about it but no, you just had to feed your big ole saviour act. You didn't even report to the police after finding him again and you claim you ran to protect me. If you don't see the irony there, then I don't know where your mind is at." She screams in anger with angry tears pooling in her eyes.