Opposites Always Attract

Chapter 45

Once Sophie had returned from the trip, the majority of her time was spent alone in her bedroom with the curtains drawn shut and some kind of depressingly slow song playing in the background whilst she lay face down in her bed thinking about how much of a mess her life had become. She shut out the world, remaining in her darkened fortress crying, throwing things around in a rage, drinking herself into a state of unconsciousness and generally feeling sorry for herself. Of course, she had received a barrage of phone calls and texts from Sian since her return but not wanting anything to do with the blonde, she had shut off her phone and thrown it to the other side of the room.

Sam and Katy were becoming increasingly concerned about their friend's behaviour and had tried numerous times to visit Sophie to try and get her out of her stupor but to no avail. Sophie didn't want visitors, she didn't want pity and she certainly didn't want anyone to see the state she was in. Aside from the hurt and sadness she felt due to the way Sian had treated her, the most overwhelming emotions inside of her were that of shame and anger. Shame that she'd fell for Sian's games, that she'd actually believed the blonde was capable of compassion and that she'd changed. But mostly, anger at herself that she'd not listened to her friends, not listened to the voice in her own head telling her that she was playing with fire and she was bound to get burned as a result.

Countless times whilst lay in bed Sophie had tried to think back to a time when she could have stopped herself. Stopped herself from getting too involved and just walked away. She had told herself from the beginning that it was going to end in tears, that Sian would freak out or not be able to handle it in someway and it would be her, Sophie that would be the one to get hurt. But she hadn't listened. No, Sophie Webster was not a girl to lead with her head and instead she often lead with her heart. Her friend's knew this better than anyone and they also knew that it was the reason Sophie was so susceptible to getting hurt in a relationship. She didn't listen to reason or what could go wrong and instead focused on the happiness she felt in the moment, the fact that despite what could go wrong, things were just fine at the time and that was enough for her. She'd forgotten all about what Sian had been like in the past or what she could be like in the future and instead she started to fall for the present Sian and it took the fight in the airport for Sophie to realise just how hard she had in fact fallen for Sian.

At the beginning she had been more than happy to remain label free, just have a bit of fun and generally not focus on being a 'couple'. She'd wanted nothing more than an easy, no strings attached relationship with Sian that didn't require too much effort on either of their parts. But as time had gone on, that heart of Sophie's had slowly interfered and she'd been unable to keep things going the way they had been.

The flight home from Spain had been torturous with hardly any words being spoken from Sian or Sophie's group of friends. Sam and Katy could see how hurt their friend was and they could tell it was taking all the willpower Sophie had not to just break down and cry then and there on the plane. But they knew Sophie was stronger than that and she could be incredibly stubborn when it came to pride and saving face so instead, the brunette merely sat in silence, staring out of the window and willing the plane to travel faster.

The entire plane journey had been just as uncomfortable for Sian as she too tried her best to fight back the tears. She couldn't even begin to describe how badly it had hurt when Sophie had said those three words to her but she knew she deserved it. She had been horrible to Sophie and she was sure she'd been able to see the brunette's heart breaking through the entire ordeal. But Sian had just stood there. Stupid, weak, afraid selfish Sian Powers who was still unable to grow a backbone and stand up for the girl she cared so much about. Despite what Sophie had said to her, Sian was pretty sure that in that moment, no one hated her more than she hated herself.