I DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOU…
He sat in the small chair with his cane in hand and stared at the girl, Kay, who was running away from everything looking spiritless. He stood and followed close behind before he saw her sit on a curb and start to sob in her hands.
She pulled back the sleeves that covered over the thick white gauze. It had started to seep through in small spots. "You might want to get that looked at…"
She turned around and quickly pulled the sleeve back to cover it up. When he sat down beside her she moved over slightly and grabbed her wrist in her hand, protecting herself from prying eyes.
He grabbed her wrist and held it in the palm of his hand, ignoring the aggravation that crossed over her face, and the way she was trying to tug her wrist back out of his hand so that he wouldn't be able to see what she had done to herself.
He ran his hand slowly over it and proceeded to open the gauze. "Don't!" She looked straight into his icy blue eyes, with her piercing crystal blue ones and dared him to open it further. He looked down and back up at her, not once letting his grip loosen from her wrist. "Why did you do it?"
Tears danced over her eyes as she started to speak, "Why do you think?" she said through gritted teeth. She put her hand on his chest and tried to push away, but couldn't get loose. " Because I have nowhere to go, and my DADDY who is actually alive must not think that I am his responsibility!" She glared at him knowing exactly who he was.
"I'm ready now…" He said in a soft voice letting her wrist fall back down into her own lap. "You only ready after 16 years?" She mumbled looking down at her hands and playing with the gauze that was pulling off.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know what else to do…" He trailed off letting her figure out what to say next. Instead she decided to say nothing at all, and let her head fall onto his chest, letting the beating of his heart calm her down.
She didn't quite embrace him in a hug, but as soon as he reached around and put his arms around her, she squeezed back letting her wrist fall in plain sight of his eyes. He starred uneasily at it until he closed his eyes and decided to only bring it up later, not now when she was at her mother's funeral.
It was hard for both of them.