Little stump

CHAPTER 4

      I'd come to one conclusion with all my interactions with Damien so far, he was an absolute asshole, and I was completely infatuated with him. As much as I would've liked to deny it, I couldn't, not to myself at least.

     Something had changed, he'd literally gone from shy and nervous to confident and dominating, and I didn't think I could handle the new version of him.

     I'd also come to another conclusion, I had to kill this infatuation I had for him no matter what. No good could come of it, I'd already allowed myself to be humiliated once. I couldn't allow it again.

    The smirk on his face had said it all, and the horrible tone he used had confirmed it, everything he did in the car was nothing more than an experiment to him. Something he wasn't taking seriously, something that was just a joke.

    However, it wasn't to me. How could something he was kidding about be so serious to me. It was all fake, but his fake actions had generated real responses from me. Very real responses. I still felt him, his breath in my ear and his arm as it wandered on the skin on my neck. The boy was maddening, he was complete madness, and I was completely mad to want to delve into that madness.

    I couldn't though, not only because he didn't  even want me too, but because my ego couldn't allow it. The humiliation of the car ride was enough. I would never let him do something like that to me again.

     The ringing of my phone brought me out of my thoughts. I picked it up from my bed to see it was a message from my father.
Why am I just hearing that you decided to move back to America. Why didn't you tell me before going.

    Just reading the message alone, I could feel his rage, and it satisfied me to know he was angry I left. How could he ask me why I didn't tell him, he knew why. We both knew he'd either have locked me up in a room or gotten one of his goons to follow me around and keep an eye on me if I did. I was done with his bullshit, I was 23, and I had my own life to live.

    I threw the phone on my bed, deciding to ignore the message. Damien's drama was already enough, I didn't need my father adding to it.

    The phone buzzed again, and I picked it up to see another message from him.
Don't ignore me, you ungrateful young lady, after everything I do for you and you do this. You're so ungrateful. I'm coming over there first thing tomorrow to bring you back.

    I sighed as I dropped the phone again, dad really wasn't going to let this go. I knew he wouldn't anyways, and I was very prepared to fight for myself. He couldn't control me anymore, I'd let him do it enough times. I felt really guilty though. Was I actually as ungrateful as he said? Dad was very strict, he always had been, but he only did all that because he wanted my future to be good and secure. Did I overreact by leaving Scotland?

     Images of Damien flashed through my head, no, no I did not. I didn't overreact, he was the one who made me cut ties with everyone, he was the one who seized my gadgets and went out of his way to make sure I wouldn't have access to contact anyone from my past. He had to pay for all his wrongs. If I hadn't come back, I wouldn't have been able to see Damien, Diana and all of the woodsworths again. I didn't overreact, I did the right thing.

     I had to remind myself to remove Damien from the list of people I was happy to see, I was not happy to see him. Seeing him hadn't been good since I'd come. Well, so far anyways.

    He'd been an absolute asshole the last time we talked, and the other times, well we didn't talk at all. I was starting to get a headache with all these thoughts going around in my head. I really needed to get it together.

   "Madeline, someone's here to see you" mom shouted from downstairs. I was confused, who could come to see me? Damien had just left, and Diana was back at her house, I didn't really know anyone else from this area well enough for them to visit me at 9:30pm, so who could it be?

     I stood up from the bed, ready to get the answer to my own question, trudged out of my room and slowly walked downstairs.

     I walked to the door, prepared to see the face of an unfamiliar person, however, the one I saw was one that left me in complete shock.

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