Hey guys, Thanks for all of your reviews for the previous chapter. They really mean a lot. Don't know how long I'm gonna write this for but feel free to let me know if it gets boring and repetitive: L
Hope you enjoy this chapter :) Once again this is un-betad so all mistakes are my own.
Chapter 14
"Well?" Kevin demanded as he looked between the two girls in front of him, anger flaring dangerously in his eyes "What the hell is going on here?"
"W-we were just…I-I…Um…" Sophie stuttered out as she glanced at Sian who remained frozen in the same position "I…"
"What Sophie?" Kevin questioned loudly "I want an explanation. Right now!"
"Mr Webster…" Sian spoke up tentatively as she stood up from the couch, her heart thudding rapidly in her chest "We were just…" she trailed off as Kevin held up a hand as a sign for her to stop.
"I wasn't talking to you" Kevin said, his eyes still fixed on his daughter "Sophie?"
Sophie stood up shakily, her hand automatically finding Sian's. She was about to respond when the front door opened and slammed shut. The girls shared a silent look, hoping Sally wasn't about to walk into the room.
"SOPH, I'M BACK!" From the volume of her voice it was clear that Rosie was hollering up the stairs instead of in the direction of the living room, obviously expecting Sophie to still be in her room with Sian. There was a moment of silence during which Kevin glared and Sophie and Sian gazed at each other nervously.
"Yeah, like they're going to be listening…" Rosie muttered to herself as she walked into the living room, her eyes glued to the phone in her hand. As soon as she looked up, she stopped abruptly, looking between Kevin and Sophie and Sian "Oh Shit"
"Couldn't have put it better myself" Sian muttered, squeezing Sophie's hand lightly.
"What?" Kevin turned his steely gaze to her.
"Uh…N-nothing" Sian stammered.
"So what's going on?" Rosie stepped further into the room, her gaze fixed on Sophie and Sian.
"That's what I'd like to know!" Kevin exclaimed angrily "I told you you're not allowed to see her anymore Sophie! And…I come home to find you doing that on the couch!"
Rosie's jaw dropped in surprise at the statement.
"Seriously?" she mouthed silently, only to get two shakes of the head in response.
"We were kissing" Sian spoke up calmly, despite the hint of anger in her words "You make it sound like we bloody killed somebody!"
Kevin stepped forward his expression darkening so dramatically that Sophie shoved Sian behind her and tensed warily. Even Rosie took a quick step towards her sister and Sian at the movement.
"You think you're not hurting anyone?" Kevin spoke angrily "You think that what you're doing is completely harmless? That I'm the bad guy in all of this?"
Sian took a fearful step back pulling Sophie with her but managed to nod in response.
"You are" Kevin stated firmly "You're going to"
"Dad come on this is…" Rosie began to speak but found herself immediately cut off.
"SHUT UP ROSIE!" Kevin yelled causing the girls to flinch at the volume "This has nothing to do with you!"
"She's my sister" Rosie scowled, crossing her arms in front of her chest "Of course it has something to do with me!"
"Yeah, she is your sister" Kevin agreed loudly "The same sister you didn't pay much attention to before this!"
"That's not true!" Rosie protested "I just…We…" she glanced at Sophie helplessly.
"That's what I thought" Kevin said in a low voice "it's funny how you don't support anything she does until she's doing something wrong isn't it Rosie?"
"It's not like that. We're just…"
"It is!" Kevin growled furiously "And you don't care about her. If you cared about her you wouldn't be supporting this but clearly all you care about is doing everything you can to cause trouble around here"
"That is not true!" Rosie shook her head adamantly "I care about Sophie's happiness. I care about her for who she is instead of what you want her to be"
"Keep telling yourself that Rosie" Kevin scoffed and shook his head "Maybe you'll believe it yourself eventually. All you care about is yourself unless the person can be of use to you!"
"Dad, that's not fair…" Sophie spoke up tentatively as she noticed Rosie faltering under the scrutiny "You're way out of line"
"Don't tell me I'm out of line!" the man turned on her, anger blazing in his eyes "You're out of line Sophie. How can you do this to your mother after everything…How could you do this to ME?"
"I didn't mean to hurt anyone" Sophie whispered, tearing up slightly "I didn't…I swear. I just love her, okay? I can't stop it and I wouldn't want to anyway. Why can't you accept that?"
"You love her" Kevin mimicked mockingly "Why can't you see Sophie. We…" his voice cracked slightly and he coughed to clear his throat "We're just trying to protect you from her"
"I don't need your protection!" Sophie persisted tearfully "Especially from Sian. She would never hurt me. I know she wouldn't"
"You don't get it" Kevin raked his hands through his hair, his gaze shooting to the celling. There was a moment of silence before he spoke again "This isn't you" he turned his gaze back to them "It's like you're stripping yourself down for her. Pieces of you…Pieces of who you were are just falling away and leaving somebody I don't even know"
"I'm still the same person I always was" Sophie said through her tears "I'm still the person you raised me to be"
"No…" Kevin shook his head firmly "No you're not"
"Dad, please…"
"What about 'God'?" Kevin shouted clearly incensed "I may not know as much as you but doesn't it say in the bible that what you're doing is wrong? Isn't it condemned and called 'Sinful' by the church?"
"Shut up!" surprisingly the loud exclamation came from Sian who was visibly shaking in anger "You don't know what you're talking about!"
"Truth hurts doesn't it Sian?" Kevin questioned coldly "It must be hard to hear that what you're doing is wrong"
Sian released an angry growl and lunged forward past Sophie who only just managed to grab her in time to prevent her going anywhere.
"Sian, calm down" Sophie whispered tearfully, her arms wrapped tightly around Sian's waist to stop her moving "Please just…Stop"
Sian froze in her struggling and relaxed in Sophie's grip "But Soph, he said…" she trailed off unable to repeat what had been said. The issue of the church, though they had overcome it had been a huge cause for concern to her in the beginning.
"I know" Sophie murmured, releasing her grip and pulling Sian gently back to her side.
"You're saying it's not true?" Kevin asked sceptically, the annoyance clear in his voice "You're not giving up everything you believe in for her?"
Sophie took a deep breath to keep herself calm "What I have with Sian is anything but wrong"
"You must not lie with a woman as one would lie with a man" Kevin recited desperately.
"Don't quote the bible at me" Sophie stated through clenched teeth, tears misting her eyes once again.
"It's an abomination" Kevin increased the volume of his voice in an effort to speak over her.
"He who is without sin amongst you, let him cast the first stone" Sophie countered her voice hindered slightly by emotion "Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven!"
"Great" Rosie muttered under her breath "A religious debate" she dropped heavily onto the couch, watching the exchange warily.
"You're admitting its wrong?"
"What I have with Sian is not wrong!" Sophie disputed firmly despite her misty eyes "I know that without a doubt"
Kevin's gaze drifted over Sophie's shoulder to land on a still seething but less sure looking Sian "Do you have any idea what you've done? What you're doing to my daughter?"
"I'm not doing anything" Sian spoke softly "And I love your daughter"
"If you loved her you wouldn't do this" Kevin's voice had softened from the angry tone it had taken so far in the conversation "You wouldn't be ripping her family apart like this"
Sian swallowed heavily but didn't respond.
"She's not!" Sophie answered for her girlfriend "You're doing that by yourself. You and Mum!"
Kevin didn't acknowledge his daughter, his gaze remaining locked intently on Sian's "You can't see it now but someday…You will see how much this is going to hurt her. How damaging this kind of lifestyle can be…Do you really want to hurt her even more than you already have? You already almost killed her!"
Sian shook her head numbly.
"She did not almost kill me!" Sophie exclaimed loudly as she shifted her hand in Sian's increasingly clammy grip "That wasn't her fault…I was mugged!"
"If you hadn't been there it wouldn't have happened" Kevin stated though his gaze was still fixed on Sian "I only want what's best for my daughter Sian…And what's best for Sophie is not you. If you really loved her you would leave her alone"
"Dad, stop it!"
"Maybe he's right…"
At the sound of Sian's soft statement Sophie snapped her head around so fast she swore it could have caused whiplash "What? Sian, No…"
"No, really Soph" Sian said tearfully "Think about it. He's right…I will end up hurting you in the future or at least getting you hurt. We'd have to face constant ridicule from people who don't even know us and…What about my Dad? If he ever did anything I would never forgive myself"
"Sian, you can't be serious" Sophie turned and clutched Sian's hands tightly "What happened to 'I'm in it for the long haul' and 'Nothing's going to tear my away from you'" her lower lip began to tremble slightly and Sian forced herself to look away "You're my Shadow, remember?"
"And you're my Chance" Sian spoke through her tears "But sometimes…We have to learn how to say goodbye, y'know"
"Don't talk like that…Don't try to say goodbye to me!" Sophie pleaded as tears spilled over her cheeks "I love you Sian!"
"I love you too" Sian whispered "That's why I have to do this…" she pulled away from Sophie and walked past Kevin, out of the door. Sophie rushed after her, up the stairs, leaving Rosie to deal with Kevin.
"Sian, wait!" Sophie yelled loudly as she sprinted up the stairs "You can't do this…You can't just leave me!"
"I have to" Sian said as she reached the bedroom and began pulling her normal clothes on "I'm sorry Sophie…I have to go!"
"No you don't!" Sophie shook her head causing yet unshed tears to spill "You don't have to do anything. You could stay here with me. You could fight for us"
"Where are my shoes?" Sian muttered, dashing tears from her cheeks.
Sophie stayed silent for a moment as she watched Sian rush around the room, looking for her shoes "Why are you doing this?"
"I'm trying to protect you" Sian looked up from where she sat on the bed, pulling her shoes on "Your Dad's right you know…You could get hurt"
"You're hurting me now" Sophie accused softly "You're hurting me by running away from what we have"
"You have to understand Soph" Sian moved over to Sophie and started to reach out before she stopped herself "I love you. That's why I have to keep you safe above everything else"
"You said you wouldn't leave me" Sophie whispered, a betrayed expression on her face "You promised you would stay"
Sian took In Sophie's teary eyes and quivering lip for a moment before she looked away, her own tears rising again "Don't look at me like that Soph. I can't take it"
"Like what?" Sophie questioned tearfully "Like the person I love is about to leave me, again? Like I'm about to lose everything?""
"I'm sorry" Sian whispered, looking up into Sophie's eyes again "I'm so sorry"
"Don't go" Sophie begged as she grasped Sian's arms and pulled her closer "Please…"
"I have to" Sian sniffled before she moved forward, capturing Sophie's lips with her own in an unfamiliarly desperate kiss. The kiss was unlike anything they had ever shared before consisting of parted lips pressed hard against each other, searching tongues, clashing teeth and hands grasping each other tightly in a subconscious fear to let go. They stumbled backwards against the door causing it to slam shut loudly and Sophie whimpered softly into Sian's mouth at the collision, partly out of pain and partly because Sian hadn't ceased kissing her. Instead her hands had lifted to thread into soft dark hair to pull Sophie close even as she pressed against her hard. They pulled away breathlessly after a moment.
"See?" Sian whispered tearfully, noticing the slight look of pain on Sophie's face "I can't do this anymore Soph…I love you but…I love you too much to hurt you" she pulled Sophie away from the door and with one last kiss, softer than their previous she rushed out of the door.
"SIAN, COME BACK!" Sophie shouted tearfully "SIAN!" she collapsed to the ground, finding her legs unable to hold her up as sobs wracked her body "Sian…"
~X~
"Sian, where are you going?" Rosie asked frantically as she blocked the blonde girl's path at the bottom of the stairs.
"Away" Sian managed to speak, despite the tears that streaked down her cheeks "He's right…All I'm doing is hurting her"
"Don't be stupid!" Rosie spat "You're seriously telling me you're just going to leave her now? After everything you've been through together?"
"I have to" Sian said through soft sobs "Just…Look after her for me" with that said she shoved past Rosie and ran out of the front door.
"SIAN!" Rosie yelled out in shock "SIAN, GET BACK HER RIGHT NOW!" when there was no response and Sian didn't return she turned to look at Kevin through narrowed eyes "Are you happy now?"
"I'm only doing what's best for her" Kevin said sharply "I'm trying to protect her"
"You…" Rosie shook her head at a loss for what to say "You know what? Never mind. Talking to you right now is like talking to a cardboard freakin' cut out" she shot him one last annoyed look before walking wearily up the stairs. She paused at the top, recognising the sound of soft sobs. She glanced undecidedly between Sophie's bedroom and her own before cautiously approaching the former. She leaned on the doorway, a sad sigh escaping her as her gaze fell onto her sister, curled onto her side on the bed, shaking with painful sobs. There was another moment of hesitation before she stepped into the room, closing the door behind her. Sophie didn't even seem to notice her presence as Rosie walked over to the bed and dropped onto it.
"Sophie?" Rosie whispered tentatively, as she reached out to place a hand on Sophie's back "Soph?" there was no response but heart wrenching sobs and Rosie bit her lip, thoughtfully. Finally making her mind up she climbed fully onto the bed and scooted close to her sister.
"Rosie?" Sophie questioned fuzzily through her sobs as she felt an arm wrap around her waist and a body settle close to her back "What are you doing?"
"What does it look like I'm doing?" Rosie sighed and rolled her eyes at the question "Just go with it Soph"
Sophie nodded, an especially loud sob springing from her throat at the offer of comfort "She's gone...she left me"
"I know" Rosie whispered, tightening her embrace. She stopped for a moment as Sophie turned around to face her, revealing tear stained cheeks and bloodshot eyes "I'm sorry"
"She's gone" Sophie said again "Just…Gone"
"I know" Rosie pulled Sophie into her arms as the younger girl began to cry in Ernest "I know"
~X~
"Sian where have you been?" Sian's mum fretted as Sian rushed past her towards the stairs "I've been worried sick about you…What's going on? Is something wrong? Sian…"
As the blonde rushed up the stairs, into her room her Mum's voice gradually faded. Sian closed the door behind her and sagged against it, finally allowing her tears to fall unhindered. She approached her bed wearily and flopped down on it without bothering to remove any item of clothing. She winced slightly however as something dug into her thigh and reached down to see what it was. Feeling her phone in her pocket she pulled it out and stared at it for a moment, in consideration.
Sian blinked back her rapidly falling tears so she could see and quickly typed out a quick simple message.
To Sophie:
I'm sorry. I love you, Sian xx
"I'm doing the right thing" Sian muttered to herself as she pressed send and allowed the phone to drop from her grip, onto the bed "I am" she grabbed a pillow and pulled it close to her chest, her sobs overtaking her "I'm so sorry Soph"
TBC