our conversation turn more to just random talk and friendly banter, at about quarter to 11pm Clark stated that she was tired and wanted to get ready for bed, me and Kit agreed to see her in the morning and said goodnight to her before she left for the stairs. I got thirsty so I figured id stop by the kitchen for water before going up to my room, mean while Kit had disappeared to some unknown location. on my way to the stairs, there was a knock on the front door, I slowly went over to the door and peeked through the peephole, it was Silas, albeit a sad-looking one. I unlocked the door and opened it wide to let him in but he just stood there looking like his pet fish died.
" hey Silas, is everything alright " he slowly moves his eyes up to mine and says" I am so sorry Riley. I was not aware that that would be a sore subject, please forgive me ill make sure to steer clear of subject like that in the future." his voice cracked in the middle of his sentence, it broke my heart to see him so broken up out something that wasn't his fault." hey hey, its ok. the subject is indeed an open wound but don't blame yourself for someone else doing. I had a hellish up bring and its gonna take sometime to be able to talk about it with someone. but please don't beat yourself up." I say as I rush towards him and pull him into an embrace which he immediately returns.
Silas had his head snuggled into my neck when I did something I don't thing I was entirely ready to do. " Silas? do you maybe want to come inside, we could talk." I asked, this made him slightly pull back bring his faces mere meters away from my face " I would but you look tired and I start my next shift in a few hours so I need to go home and get some sleep, rain check though?" all I could do is nod in agreement, Silas gently gave my cheek a kiss before backing but and turning toward the porch steps" goodnight Riley, sleep well, ill see you soon." I whispered goodnight and walked back into the house locking the door and placing my hand up to the cheek that he kissed.
I started the stairs but stopped when I saw Kit standing at the top. " who was that, everything good?" he asked motioning me to continue climbing the stairs. "ya everything's fine, it was just Silas. he came to apologize. he felt really bad about earlier." Kit only nodded and just followed me to my room. "could you shut the door please Kit." he did as I asked and took a seat on my bed just watching be get ready for bed. after doing my hygiene things I came out of the bathroom and grabbed an over sized t shirt to wear to bed. " uh Kit you have two choices here either you can exit the room or turn around and promise me that you'll not look." he looked at me and stood up turning to face the door but never moved to go through it. alright then second choice it is. " I promise I won't look," he said over his shoulder.
once I was certain he wouldn't look I reached for the hem of my tank top and pulled it up over my head, one I had my tank off I tossed it over to Kit which he couch even by not looking " impressive, could you put that in my hamper please." he did so and said " if you think that's impressive just wait to see what other tricks I have." I didn't know what way to take that so I started to giggle, Kit must've understood where my head went cause he followed up with " hey no get your head out of the gutter, that's not what I meant." I just continued to giggle as I started to undo the button and zipper of my cargo pants, once those were off I did the same thing I did with the tank top and tossed it over to Kit.
my giggling ceased and the smile on my face fell as I walked over to the body length mirror that was by one of my closed windows. I wasn't naked I had my underwear on which hides some of the scars but not many. I've seen all the scars before, I'd been looking at them for years but I forgot just how many I had, along with little patches of burn marks scattered on my stomach and back, I turned slightly to look at where I fell on my ass twice to see a huge black and purple bruise that took up half my right ass cheek. seeing the full extent of the hell I grew up with made a tear slip out and roll down my chin and neck, coming to a stop and pooling in the crook of my collarbone.
sensing my silence Kit turned and gasped at my broken appearance. he moved slowly towards me and the mirror and rapped his ghostly cool arms around my chest and abdomen, dipping his head to rest on my shoulder. " my god Riley, what happened to you? who did this?" his voice and face showed sorrow and concern for the torture I had endured for years. I couldn't find the words to tell him, all I could do was stand in his arms and cry while looking at my horribly defiled figure. "Riley hey come here, its going to be alright. I won't let anyone hurt you like that again."
he turned me around so I was pushed up to his chest, his arms still incasing me in a cool safety need of comfort. I rapped my arms around his, not being able to hold it it any more I let go and a waterfall of salty tears came uncontrollably rushing out. " my Riley, please tell me what happened to you, let me help love." knowing it was going to be a while before my tears stopped Kit moved us to a sitting position on the edge of my bed and just held me for what seemed like an endless amount of time.