Developmental Desperation (Josiah)

[Josiah]

She seemed annoyed with him but she rose and removed her jeans and he grinned lightly. He had won, a mild stone in any mans life when it came to arguing with a woman. She came around the bed and pulled back the covers. Getting in she spoke to him as though he had pissed her off but he knew better.

Her curling into his arms being a dead give away. With a grunt he moved himself to his good side and but his arms around her, he knew they put her to sleep for some odd reason which he could not explain but there was a sense of comfort he took for it was well, something he could not deny anymore as much as he wanted to She kissed his chest and fell into a sleep, his eyes slowly following her own as he nodded back off himself.

6 hours passed before his eyes opened again, he hated sleeping this much and he hated waking up to pain every fucking time. But waking up to her relaxed face kind of made it enjoyable. She was already stiring and the lights in the room had faded which meant it was late. H let out a small sigh, he was glade she had found what it took to get some rest.

“Siege….Siege” he whispered his fingertips playing on the small of her back “Come to me Siege….wake up” he siad slowly and gently pulling her from her dreams into the world of the waking

[Siege]

“Siege….Siege”

“Come to me Siege….wake up”

Her sleep was deep, and it felt good, she had needed it as much as she hated to admit it. It was only punctuated by the fact that she had fallen asleep near instantly in his arms. She loved sleeping there, it was where she slept the best, it was where she had the least amount of dreams. It was where she felt safe. She began to stir slowly coming out of her sleep and towards being more awake, a long yawn coming from her as she felt his hand stroking up and down her back gently, and beginning to whisper to her.

"Mmm."

Her eyes squinted and then they opened just slightly and looked up at him gently. A soft smile crossed her face.

"Hey baby."

She said for the second time today, as she rolled over and gently rubbed her eyes and looked up at him. She smiled softly at him, she did love being around him. And she loved the feeling of waking up beside him, he looking down at her with the soft red eyes she was growing to love more and more, and she could only smile softly as she shifted so that she could lay on his shoulder, and snuggle in. Her stomach grumbled.

"I'm hungry. How about pizza."

When he nodded she smiled and touched his cheek. Leaning in she kissed the side of his nose softly. There was no way he could understand how much he meant to her, and probably would never understand it either, but she did care. And she was only growing closer. She grabbed her jeans from the floor and called in the pizza unwilling to move from his arms.

They spent the thirty minutes cuddling, though she helped him to the bathroom this time, since he had to go and so did she. She loved cuddling with him, running his hand up and down her bare arm, enjoying the time they were just laying together. Closed eyes, enjoying each others company. Talking every so often about this or that, but nothing all too important, simple chatter, though she woud ask often how he was feeling.

The door bell rang, and she got up. Putting her jeans back on, she grabbed some money from his wallet since he had told her she could and headed down to pay for the pizza. She opened the door and paid the guy, taking the pizza she was about to turn, when she felt arms around her waist.

"Well well, mind if I come in and join you?"

"Yes, I do, actually." she hissed. She didn't even know this guy, but he had his hands all over her.

"Aww come on baby, you look like you could use a little fun." he grinned.

"Get your FUCKING hands off me."

He began nibbling on her neck. Siege, grunted as she put the pizza down on the floor and kicked it out of the way so it wouldn't get ruiined as she threw a elbow into his gut. A loud "MOTHER FUCKER" came from the guy as he grabbed her by the shirt and threw her against the wall. Ripping her shirt open.

"NO!" she screamed, as she began to fight harder, and yet was still blinded by the rage of her past, "Don't touch me!" she cried out as she began to try lifting her knee to his groin which didn't work he blocked it, and began taking his liberties with her chest.

[Josiah]

Pizza, it was something he had not bothered with in a while but he nodded. She was learning her way around the kitchen and had a feeling what ever she made would be either crispy or make his health worse at the moment. She ordered it in a sleepy tone but it was cute, and as they waited they spent more time in bed cuddling. She was a touch junkie but he had been the one to invitie her to lay with him, he could only imagine what that was saying about him and how he was growing closer to her.

She had changed him if only slightly, though he guess it was probably a huge step in the scheme of things, she had changed him and they were both seeming to enjoy it to their own separate levels.

The door rang eventually and she got up, he lay in bed of course, she was very clear about the no more moving till she said he could deal, and he was willing to give in for the night. A few moments and that when she swore he heard cursing. He sat up in bed wincing only to hear t again though this time from a male voice.

“NO!”

His eyes grew wide, that was her scream there was no mistaking her voice for him. He stood up almost jumping out of bed still in his boxers wincing as he did so. The quick movements immediately made him feel dizzy, which meant no gun for him as he would be a horrible shot at the moment.

He moved quickly out of his room, she was in trouble which meant his body would just have to deal with it and suck it up. He rushed down the stairs to a yell Siege, the pizza guy all over her as she tried pushing him back and yelling for him to stop though from the way he was crowding her it didn’t seem like she could reel back enough for a decent hit.

He leaped down the last few steps, that move alone making his cuts move enough to reopen. “GET OFF HER!” Josiah growled, percing crimson burning through his eyes

This one though saw no threat in the bandaged barely standing Josiah and turned to Siege still looking to have his way. Explosive leg power drove Jo toward them his right hand outstretching to the back of the numbskulls head and driving it forward through the drywall and plaster wall holding his head there Josiah shot a left uppercut into his kidneys since they were so nicely exposed hopefully buying Siege enough time to get away.

The pizza boy grunted in pain and shot a reckless elbow into Josiah’s torso right into the bullet wound making him want to cry out. Most of his cuts and injuries were already reopened from his sudden yet powerful moves. He stumbled back holding his most painful injury as her assailant turned to himhis fore head bleeding his hair grey with dust and a hurt pissed off look on his face. When life sucked for Josiah it really sucked!

[Siege]

“GET OFF HER!”

She heard the words, and knew the voice but this was the one thing she didn't want him to see. The way that when she was pinned like this, with her shirt ripped open and righting her past while trying to fight the man that was trying to molest her. But worst too was that he was out of bed and she could see the blood coming from his wound which she knew now had had likely blown the stitches out. The kids head entered the dry wall and a kidney shot incapacitated him for a moment before he shoved his elbow in the worst possible place. She moved fast, and sucker punched the kid breaking his nose, and taking her money back before she shoved him to the door and kicked him in the balls down the stairs.

The boy fell and tumbled, Siege turned to Josiah and came up beside him, putting her arm around him, she was shaking with anger and probably fear, though she his it rather well. Her shirt torn open, revealing the red bra beneath. She got him up the stairs and back to his room laying down.

"What the FUCK were you thinking?! I could have handled it on my own! I''m not a fucking baby! And look at you, ripping your fucking stitches out like a damn idiot when I worked my ass off last night to take care of you and make sure that you were going to live!! So much thanks that I get!"

She grabbed the first aid kit, and visciously ripped the bandage from the wound. Gathering her materials, she began to work gently and carefully. Absorbing the blood with her gauze and cleaned the wound disinfecting it again, before she began to sew him back up. He was just going to have to take the pain she didn't have any alcohol this time. She worked as quickly as possible, and then placed a new bandage over the wound. As she packed up the case he sighed.

"Thank you." she swallowed, as she rose, keeping her eyes away from him. "I'm gonna go get dinner."

She headed back down the stairs, with a long sigh, as se picked up the pizza and then got them both some drinks. She wasn't going to let him have any more alcohol while he was laid up, and maybe it would help him lessen his dependency. She came back up, her eyes mainly lost in thought. She sat on the edge of the bed and opened the box placng it in his lap she picked up a piece and picked at it.

"I'll give you more pain pills after you eat." she promised. "How do you feel?"

[Josiah]

He was hunched over in a serious amount of pain greatful that siege had stepped in and sucker punched the asshole and got him out of the house. His breathing was heavy as he kept himself from falling over until Siege got to him and without a second word helped him up stairs and back into his bed. He knew he had been foolish but he had not be able to just not do anything. She yelled at him and he chuckled lightly, here he was bleeding on her behalf and she was giving him shit…how nice.

She grabbed the first aid kit and began to patch him up again, he was slient though out most of it, he had a decently high threshold for pain but still eveny now and then he could not help but sigh or jerk his body. He was going to have to teach her how to use the liquid sitching a.k.a crazy glue. It really did work wonders and was less of a pain in the ass to worry about, and a whole lot less painful to pop.

Newly bandaged he looked to heras she thanked him, he had been quite unsure of what to say only his face telling her that she didn’t have to thank him for being an idiot. She left leaving him to lean back, that had sucked, more then he would have life to admit, he was a sitting duck in this state not even strong enough to take out the delivery guy.

When she returned he looked at her as she placed the pie in his lap sitting on the bed next to him . “I feel like I’ve had better days” he said looking to her “Though I am sure its been no picnic for you either” he sighed folding a slice.

“Also feeling depressed that there were no beers in your hand when you came back up” his eyes looked at her “I take it I’m being punished for getting out of bed again” he shrugged

He leaned back and he sighed “I’m sorry” he said as his eyes gazed to her quickly “I keep getting my blood on you and making you worry….I guess I am a shitty room mate for putting you through this”

[Siege]

“I feel like I’ve had better days”

“Though I am sure its been no picnic for you either”

Siege shrugged as she bit into her pizza and looked across the room staring at nothing in particular. She pursed her lips as she swallowed and sighed, she needed to change her shirt, and she would, but after dinner she found herself famished but mentally without the will to eat.

"My life has never been a picnic, so this is just one more day."

A shrug of her small but muscular shoulders as she took another bite, facing away from him, her bangs covering her eyes, though all they did was stare across the room, zeroing in on nothing inparticular, merely zoning out in thought. Trying to force the toughts and moments of downstairs behind her, into the back of her mind where the rest of them lay.

“Also feeling depressed that there were no beers in your hand when you came back up”

I take it I’m being punished for getting out of bed again”

She sighed, as she tilted her head to the side this time. Her answers were as if she was on autopilot, right now she was in defensive mode, she was working hard to put the memories back with the other ones, so that she could be her normal self and not have to suffer the questions.

"Yes, and no. You don't need beer in your condition it'll only thin the blood, and you need your blood."

“I’m sorry”

“I keep getting my blood on you and making you worry….I guess I am a shitty room mate for putting you through this”

Siege finished off the last bit of her first piece of pizza, but she would eat more later. Right now she found that she just didn't have much of an appetite. Lowering her face she placed it in the palms of her hands which her elbows rested on her knees.

"You aren't the worst roomate ever." she sighed. "It's just.. I don't.. even.. know." she grunted frustrated.

She rose.

"Eat. I'm going to go change my shirt. I doubt you want to see this."

She left the room, and crossed the hall into her own room. Moving to the right she disappeared behind the door frame and went to her closet. For a moment she leaned there letting the tears leak from her cold grey eyes, as she fumbled for a shirt, any shirt would do, she didn't care what it was. After a few minutes she made sure there was no way he could tell, as best as she could anyway, and tore her shirt off, before sliding the new one on and returning.

"Here." she said as she sat down again and got two pills out for him.

[Josiah]

She seemed distant and he could understand, attempted rape normally did that to a person, who would know better then him after all. She rose up eventually saying she needed to go change and he gave her a nod understanding that she needed to put something on her that wasn’t ripped open. He ate two slices while she was gone drinking what ever she had gotten him, he really had no taste at the moment besides the taste of blood which seemed traped in his mouth for some reason.

When she returned he already had a cigarette in his mouth with the pizza box closed and put to his side. She looked out of it her cheeks puffy right beneath her eyes and it was not the same ind that had been there from the bags beneath her eyes.

She got him out two pills which he took in his hand but before he took them into his mouth decided he was not ready to go back to sleep. He placed them on the night stand and looked over to her.

“This room….it smells…stale blood and smoke don’t go well together” his crimson eyes looked to her

“Siege…help me into some sweat pants and down stairs…I think we could both use some fresh air” he said looking over to her, he knew his violin was downstairs as well and he would plan to grab it as long as she helped him out of bed Atleast if they were down stairs they had the sofa bed and the T.V….things that would do them both some good instead of just sitting in his unentertaining room.

[Siege]

“This room….it smells…stale blood and smoke don’t go well together”

Siege cocked her brow. She noticed that he put the pills to the side, so Siege grabbed them and shoved them into her pocket since she had a feeling they were about to move. But he was right stale blood and smoke wasn't going well together, so she moved to the windows. Opening them all a crack letting the cool breeze coming off the ocean fill the room so that when she came back up her later for anything it wouldn't be so bad. And as soon as he fell asleep she would come up t change the sheets that still had his blood on them.

“Siege…help me into some sweat pants and down stairs…I think we could both use some fresh air”

"Sure."

It would infact be nice to get out of the room. And there was the couch bed, downstairs. She tilted her head for a moment and motioned for him to wait. Grabbing the pizza, the ice chest, and the first aid kit she rushed downstairs. Pouring the water from the chest down the sink, she put the pizza in the fridge and then removed the cushions off the couch and pulled out the bed inside. Then she went back upstairs and moved into his closet, finding a pair of sweats she came to him and uncovered him helping him into them with as little discomfort as possible.

Then she helped him up and with as much of his weight on her as they could manage she got him down the stairs one step at a time before she sat him down in his arm chair, figuring he might like to be out of a bed for a few minutes.

"Do you need anything?" she asked placing the TV remote by his hand just incase.

[Josiah]

She was going to make some poor bastard happy in the future, he could tell that much from the way she so willing dotted on him. He was sure she would bring a boyfriend home sooner or later, fall in love with a man willing to use his heart and move out of his house. That was just the way life was bound to work out or so he thought.

She helped him into a pair of thin grey sweat pants and helped him up, he was getting annoyed knowing that he could move on his own but he didn’t try to fight her knowing she would win and kick his ass for being stupid. Down the stairs they managed awkwardly but it happened soon enough. She had already gotten the couch bed out, he had a feeling they would share it with one another tonight. But right now he was not looking to lay down, his back hurt him from all the laying he had been doing his body not used to being sationary for so long.

She sat him in his arm chair, right next to it on the little side table was his violin in its case. He liked to sit there some times at night and polish the instrument and care for it since it was aged and needed a certain amount of attention, but the warm and soothing sound it produced could not be matched, not even by its electrical descendents.

He took it as she asked him if he needed anything and he smiled. “A decent pair of ears would be good” Josiah said as he stood up with violin and bow in hand. He looked over to her and took her hand in his other, he wanted her hand right now and not her shoulder and she was going to have to deal with it.

“Come on…be a shame not to be outside” Josiah said, his steps like a shuffle as he moved knowing if he moved to quickly the patches she had just fixed him with would be screwed.

He’d lead her out to the porch which over looked the beach and the ocean, it was dark outside and the stars were out, the cool breeze felt good against his skin. He motioned for her to have a seat while he propped himself against the house. He wanted to stand up and he could not play comfortably if he was sitting down.

[Siege]

“A decent pair of ears would be good”

Siege looked up and cocked her brow. But she saw him pulling his violin out of the case. She loved it when he played for her, she would always stop whatever she was doing and sit down to listen. Even if he didn't know it. If she was upstairs doing her homework or her own thing in her room, she would stop and close her eyes and listen. He played beautifully, and she adored it when he would play especially for her, like now. He rose, and she was quick to rush to him, but the look in his eyes told her to stand off. And he took her hand instead.

“Come on…be a shame not to be outside”

She nodded. It was okay so long as she was with him. This way if he got weak and needed her he could lean on her, or if something hurt they could stop, or if he needed anything he wouldn't have to rely on himself. They stepped outside, and the breeze and fresh air was clearly welcome to the both of them. She sat down, squeezing his hand gently, it was nice.. that he had taken her hand. It felt very, couply for the lack of a better word. He stood but leaned against the wall, and she knew that he was tired of sitting. She was more tired of being awake but she had him to take care of, and she wouldn't fall down on her job. She probably would make a good wife if anyone could tame her enough, she was falling for Jo, so he got more special treatement than anyone before him.

As he began to play, Siege would stand and go to the railing, leaning, also tired of sitting and laying, and lean against the pillar and look out at the ocean. Watching it crash into the beach under the moonlight, her eyes half closed. Listening to his symphony as well as watching natures melody out before her. When the song ended she smiled.

"You always play so beautifully." she confessed. "I always listen you know, whenever you play, I always listen, because you play .. music that touches someone's heart, right down to their soul, it's.. majestic."

Now she felt foolish, for having mentioned that, he probably wouldn't even understand or respect her opinion. But it was true, and if there was anything she could wish for, it would be for his arms to come around her from behind and watch the ocean and the stars together. But that was a dream that she would have to live in her sleep, because while he was opening more each day she doubted he was going to come over and make her wishes come true.

[Josiah]

He began to play his eyes closing as he began to feel the music within him, he had only leared to play thanks to an odd job given to him by boss Haris when he was younger but it was something that he had practiced and made his own art. Soon he stopped though as the song ended and his thoughts were brought to her as she spoke to him.

She told him he played beautifully and besides a few people he had been paid to play for she was really the only one that had ever really heard him play since he was younger. She confessed though that she always listened to him play and his brow cocked slightly. He knew she was into heavier music then what he played so to hear that his playing touched her meant something to him.

He looked at her looking to the ocean “Thank you…it means a lot to have my music appreciated” he let out a small sigh

“I’ve actually been working on something new….something that…you inspired” he didn’t wait for a response, his eyes closed lightly as to feel the music out again and he began to play.

What he played, was almost as, a warm heart breaking symphony that could make you either want to cry or it was on the verge of being so beautiful it made you want to kiss some one. After about 2 minutes he stopped, the song was not yet complete it needed a closing but it was as far as he had gotten with the time he had been working on it.

His eyes opened to look to her his violin and bow coming down to his sides as red orbs gazed at her. “I’ve come to title it Sage’s Tears… I hope its to your liking” he said softly. She had been the inspiration of the song, her image of her on the beach that afternoon of the first day she had come to call this place home, the beautiful sadness of her grey eyes had never left his memory and had helped to fuel the song he was writing, the song which he would call hers if she liked it.

[Siege]

“Thank you…it means a lot to have my music appreciated”

Siege smiled, as she looked over her shoulder at him and gave him a nod and a wink. She appreciated his music, he was very talented and she enjoyed it when he played. The violin would fill the entire house with the warm beautiful notes it made her want to learn something that could accompany it, but to be as good as he was, worthy to play by his side, she would need years and that was probably stupid. One day she would do something, and he'd probably kick her out.

“I’ve actually been working on something new….something that…you inspired”

Siege's eyes grew as wide as he had ever seen them. Her voice was so unsure and small when she spoke.

"Me?"

He didn't answer. She was blown back though, that she, Sage Wasterhaus, Siege, whatever name you wanted to call her had inspired a song. She listened, her eyes wide, her entire body frozen, nothing moved, it seemed that she barely breathed as she stood there her entire body highlighted in the moonlight. Tears streamed of their own free will down her cheeks, so moved she was by the heartbreaking beauty of the song. She had reverted, non verbal, she could only breathe, cry and swallow, she felt as though she was in some sort of stupid teen movie where things like this happened to girls like her that were tough on the outside but not on the inside.

The song ended abruptly and she instantly wanted more but understood when he spoke again, she was sure he could see her tears shimmering in the moonligt, her eyes still wide with shock, but so soft. Softer than he had ever seen them, so soft that you could her just then, the real Sage, the one that Siege kept hidden all the time.

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“I’ve come to title it Sage’s Tears… I hope its to your liking”

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It was only then that she seemed to realize that she was indeed crying, with a slight chuckle she rose her hand to her cheeks and wiped away the tears of how touched she was, but they continued to fall. Her heart racing in her chest at the thought of something done because of her.

"It's.. so .. so beautiful..." she whispered the tears easily heard in her voice if he hadn't seen them earlier. "Why.. How.. how did I inspire such beauty? Why me? How .. I.. please tell me."

Her voice was a whisper, she needed to hear this, needed to know this, she wanted to know what he felt, if hefelt anything. Surely if he was writing a song about her there was something in there and she had to know what it was. She took a few steps towards him, so that she stood in front of him, the tears finally stopping and beginning to dry on her cheeks as her soft lovely grey eyes looked right up to him waiting to hear his answer.[/i]

[Josiah]

He hated how his song had no ending, he was still waiting on it, that thing that would drive him and through the last bit into his mind, he had no idea how to end something of that nature but as he looked to her and the tears that ran down her cheeks he knew she could not care that it was imcomplete. It had touched her and from the way she looked, the way she could not speak he had a feeling it touched her in a way she had not been touched before. She gently seemed to wipe away her tears as he leaned against the wall which he was supporting his weight on.

She called it beautiful and he grinned slightly at her whisper which was still so heart breakingly soft and tender She spoke and his question did not surprise him as much as it should have. He had a feeling being an abandoned orphan made her feel unimportant, she probably thought less of herself then she normally let on, something he understood.

“It was your eyes at first” Josiah said, he was going to be honest with her he had nothing to hide.

“That afternoon you were on the beach, picking your little flowers…There was a moment…that you looked at me and I read your eyes” He said as he placed his violin down on the small stand beside him which he normally kept an ashtray on.

“They were beautiful…but yet they held such pain and sorrow…I had never seen eyes like that” he sighed “I knew if I could write something that could describe those eyes in the least bit, it would be the most beautiful thing to ever be heard by human ears”

His hand came up and rested on her shoulder “Though…it was coming to know you…to see other sides of you that really began to bring my work together…Just because I am cold..and often uncaring…it does not mean I don’t see the beauty and sorrow in things…even with the hard looking exterior I see both swirling in you…..when your happy...you glow beautifully…kind of like when you opened your drums…you brightened the entire room…and when your sad...when your hurt like when I push you away, your sorrow consumes everything…it almost suffocating in its pain”

His head leaned back resting against the wall behind him “I tried...to capture all these…but, its missing the ending…the one that shows your strength your will to keep moving on…and the fade off that shows the softness behind it…without it I doubt it would the master piece I want it to be” he sighed his eyes looking down to her he let out a little chuckle. ”Sorry…I kind of just kept going there…” he had siad to much, he had siad all the things he had seen in her things he obviously felt about her and admired. She probably had no idea how observant he had been over the weeks, she had robably though he ignored her and didn’t care.
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[Siege]

“That afternoon you were on the beach, picking your little flowers…There was a moment…that you looked at me and I read your eyes”

She was shocked she had to admit that she had never thought that was even possible that he paid that much attention to her and that she had never even noticed. Most of the time he seemed to be doing his own thing. She had never caught him watching her and figured that she was just bothering him getting in the way. There was just something shocking about it all that she couldn't believe. Jo continued on, telling her that there were times that he couldn't help but write forher. When she got her drums, and when she lit up the room apparently, when she was sad, the sorrow was felt all over, something she didn't even realize until he stood there telling her all about it.

It was nice to know that she was loved in some way even by someone that she doubted she had much of a future with. She loved the way that he would hold her from time to time at night, and the way that he woke her up sweetly. Even when she slept in her room he would always come in and wake her up before her alarm clock went off, which was nice, to have him sit on the side of her bed. Gently, wake her up, her cup of coffee in his hand ready to help her wake up. She had a feeling it was so that she wouldn't make them late for school, by pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock and allowing herself to fall back to sleep. But it was still nice that he did so.

But more than that, she was shocked that her reactions were things that affected him so much, it was certainly a surprise to learn this. She moved up to him, tears running down her cheeks again. He said he was unsure on how to finish the song, she had an idea, but she wouldn't be the one that kissed him first. They had not kissed, even if they had done other things. She felt that if they were going to make that next step she wanted him to initiate it, to show her that he wanted it, and that he wanted to be closer to her that he was right now.

She moved and placed herself into his arms, and snuggled up against his chest feeling his arms come around her. She wanted so badly to kiss him and yet she knew that she really couldn't, and wouldn't. She didn't wantto be the only one pushing on the boundaries. She sighed softly.

"I've never.. realized that." she whispered. "But I am much the same, the other day, with the drums, when you smiled at me, when you're eyes were soft. I .. I've never seen such beauty, I .. I love your smile Josiah it's so beautiful."

"If I could play something more to your liking than the drums, I would write you something, but, take my word that it touched me, your song, your smile.. You.. you touch me."

Siege bit her lower lip and let him hold her there on the porch, her eyes closed, her body in his arms. Her fingers stroking across his chest softly, enjoying the feel of his muscles. Now would be a wonderful time, to kiss her, but she had no real hope that would happen. Just because he noticed her didn't mean that he wanted to be closer than he was to her.

[Josiah]

She moved herself into his arms snuggling against his chest, it hurt a bit, he;d be lying if he said otherwise but he let her snuggle into him. She was a sweet girl, he’d admit to that, and he did find her attractive both physically and as a person. But he just wasn’t the person she needed in her lfe, a boy friend that loved her would never stumble home bleeding to death, he’d never voluntarily put himself in danger for mney, and he would not push her away when things got to soft between them. He was indeed the wrong man for her.

“You touch me as well” Josiah admitted in a whisper. Holding her, she did, to what extent he could not tell her but she did touch him enough to earn his trust, not something easily uptianable by anyone.

Silence ensued for a moment until he looked down to her.

“Your looking a bit better now…..we should go and try and get something in you before it gets any later” Josiah siad softly knowing she still had to be hungry. “If I can…I’ll try and play your song one last time before I need to sleep again” he offeredready to go back inside and sit. He was still a bit tired but doing much better then this morning.