I sat there looking down at the bed. I figured if I didn't look at kerri it wouldn't be real. I felt her looking at me.
"are you ok?"
"im just shocked I guess. And. Hurt."
"bc he didn't tell you."
"yeah. Exactly."
"I don't know what to say."
"yeah me either really."
"do you know how long itll be?"
"a couple weeks" kerri answered.
"oh."
The doorbell rang.
"ill get it," kerri said leaving.
"ok."
I heard her go down the hall stairs and into the living room where she opened the door.
"is…is morgan…." I heard sierra ask upset.
"yeah sure. Morgan!" kerri called.
"coming!" I said getting off the bed.
I made my way into the living room where sierra and kerri were. Sierra had fading bruises on her face.
"ill leave you 2 alone," kerri said leaving.
"ok."
"cmon lets go outside," sierra said.
Where it was dark. And cold. I noticed that sierra didn't have a coat w/ her.
"wheres your coat?" I asked.
She looked at me from her sitting position: "ill explain in a minute."
"oh."
I went inside and got a long wool coat from the tall coat tree in the entryway amd brought it outside. I gave it to sierra who put it on. I closed the door behind me and sat next to her.
"you remember james?" she asked.
"james my ex boyfriend james?" I looked at her surprised.
I already had a feeling where this was going and not liking it.
"yeah. He took my coat."
"oh."
"yeah when I ran into him tonight on the way here. And he did this," she indicated her face; "hes been doing it for awhile."
"oh. Does shawn know?"
"yeah he does. Eric doesn't I want to tell him."
"ill come w/ you."
"ok."
I pulled out my phone to see if id gotten a text from eric. I had it told me he was off work and that linda and Irene were at the house. They were his exs. Theyre nice. I texted him back telling him I needed to talk to him and that sierra was with me. He said we could go to a coffee shop.