She Needs Me

After ten minutes of Ellie convincing her to go in, Alex finally headed up to the door. She didn't know what to expect

or what to say to Paige. She swallowed hard and rang the doorbell. Paige's mom answered the door. "Hi Mrs. Michalchuk. Is Paige here?" Alex barely managed to say.

"Yes. Come in Alex and I'll go go her for you." Mrs. Michalchuk said as she moved away from the door to let Alex enter her home. Alex went and sat in the livingroom, just as Mrs. Michalchuk had motioned for her to do as she headed up the stairs to get Pagie from her room.

"Paige." Mrs. Michalchuk said as she knocked on Paige's door.

"Yeah, mom?" Paige anwsered back, climbing off her bed and heading towards the door to opened it for her mother.

"You have a visitor waiting for you in the livingroom." She said to her daughter and headed back downstairs.

"I'll be right down." Paige yelled to her mom as she desended the stairs.

Mrs. Michalchuk poked her head around the corner to Alex and said, "She's on her way down. Do you want anything to drink?"

"No thanks." Alex smiled fakely at her ex's mom. Shortly after Mrs. Michalchuk left Alex by herslef, she heard Paige's feet hitting the carpeted stairs and her nervousness grew with every step Paige took.

Paige rounded the corner smiling, but once she caught sight of who had come to see her she stopped. "Hi." Was all Paige could say. She slowly made her way around the coffee table over to the couch and sat on the left of of it away from Alex.

"Hi." Alex couldn't much say anything either. After what seemed like an hour of awkward silence, Alex said what she had come to say to Paige. "Is now and here good for us to talk?" She waite for Paige to answer her question with butterflies fluttering uncontrolably in her stomach.

"I guess, but I'm not quite sure what we have to talk about." Paige knew this was a lie, but she didn't know if she was ready to tell Alex what she really had on her mind.

"Us." The only answer Alex had for what Paige ahd just said.

Paige began to wonder if Alex knew she was lieing to her. She quickly shurgged it off and continued. "What is left of us? I thought all we had was a friendship."

"I don't know if I can handle us just being friends anymore, Paige. It hurts so much. I miss being with you." Alex tried to grab Paige's hand, but she pulled away before she had the chance.

"I miss being with you too, but I'm not sure if I'm ready for more yet." Paige knew this was also a lie, but she didn't want to be hurt again by the woman she loves.

"Are you afraid that I'm going to hurt you?" Alex asked seeing through Paige's lies.

"Yes." Paige said as she started to cry. "I just don't want to be hurt again. I've been hurt too many times, Alex." Paige, finally confronting her fears of pain collapsed into Alex's lap. Alex slowly and gently began stroking Paige's hair to try to comfort her.

"Paige I swear that I never meant to hurt you. I love you. I'll never hurt you again. I promise you." Alex said causing Paige to sit up and kiss Alex softly on the lips.