UNTIED

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 5.

MATT'S POV.

It was sometime past three, but I couldn't fall asleep. I got up and shut all the curtains and tried to sleep again. As soon as I felt like I was drifting into a dream, someone started ringing the bell and knocking the door, really violently.

I hope it's not the cops... I thought to myself stupidly as I walked to the door and opened it to see Kate.

"Took you long enough!" She said.

I frowned. What is she doing here?

"I thought you died or something! I was worried." She said as she walked inside like it was her own damn house.

"Are you drunk or is this some surprise booty call I didn't know about?"

"Since when am I banned to come visit you, Matt?" She pouted and slumped onto the couch.

"Since you stopped answering my freakin' calls." I practically screamed.

"Harsh!" She said, a bit sad, looking down. Then, she looked up at me expectantly. When I didn't say anything, she said, "Why were you calling anyway?"

"I just..." I sighed and sat down on the couch beside her.

She looked at me, still waiting.

"I wanted to apologize."

"You did?" She looked at me like she didn't believe me.

It infuriated me. "Believe it or not. What do you want?"

She sighed. "I need a place to crash." And she blinked. That's how I knew she was lying.

"Oh, really?"

"No, Matt... I'm hurting." She didn't blink. Her expression was one of pained and sad. One I had never seen before on her face.

"What's wrong?"

She hesitated for a while. "Let me ask you something... If you didn't know me and had met me for the first or maybe the second time, would you just have sex with me and then leave?" She said, her face looking like she was trying to decipher something.

"Leave?" I thought over it. "Probably not, but it would depend on circumstances."

"Like what?"

"If, if my... dog was dying?"

She giggled. "You don't have a dog!"

"If I had cancer and I was enjoying the last few days of my life."

"You don't have cancer either. You don't, right?" She looked at me, sadly.

"No, I'm fine."

"Thank God..."

I looked at her.

"You remember Alex... and Alan? They didn't take me to their house knowingly. I was at some bar and was roofied. I didn't tell them my address so they thought it was safe to take me to their house..."

I paused. "Okay, and then?"

"I went to their place again, and Alan was there... We had dinner and... He was so sweet... We..." She sighed, "We made out and stuff. The guy at Stacey's party with me was Alex. I don't know what he was doing there but then he took me to some hotel, we had sex and he just, left me there." She paused and continued, "I saw him today, too. He kissed me, said sorry and went away, again."

"That's a little fucked up." I said, over-the-top pissed. I swear, if I see him again, I'm gonna beat the shit outta him.

"I know. I don't know how I even fell for it. I don't even know why I'm telling all of this to you." She laughed nervously.