Chapter 36: Admitted Too

Melissa's POV.

I couldn't find the exact reason why I was feeling guilty at that moment, but seeing Landon sitting at that clinic with me with injuries all over his face, I could not shake off the guilt.

I watched as the nurses helped him up to a bed not far from mine, and his injuries were being dressed. His attention was fixed on the nurses who were dressing his injury, and despite how I wished she was going to look in my direction, she didn't.

I placed my right leg on the floor, hoping that I could move on one foot close to his bed.

I tried it first and slowly began to walk over, holding the edges of different beds until I got to his.

"I have been trying to get your attention. Landon"

3 said to him as I came closer, but he looked away again, and this time he obviously didn't want me to see his face.

"Landon, come on, I don't think it's that bad," it said to him with a soft smile on my face, yet he didn't look up.

"Seriously, Lisa, I did not want you to see me like this. I do not know what I was thinking. I shouldn't have fought with Lex. I never knew that things could be this crazy with it between us, and I shouldn't have spoken about his mother like that."

The tone of regret in his voice was so obvious that I couldn't help but feel sorry for him.

"It's okay; you were angry at him, and that was why you said it. I have never seen Lex like that. I always thought he was this cold demon who would always do things undercover, having other people do their dirty work, and I never knew he could really be this violent."

"Didn't you say he tried to strangle you before?" He asked me, and I nodded my head slowly in agreement, but if I was being honest, it wasn't exactly that way.

"He was provoked, Landon, and I don't think he has it in him. He was so terrified right after that I could see through him that it wasn't in his nature to do that," I said, sitting right beside him on the bed.

"Really? So now you think he's a good person? I mean he's like your enemy and you already speaking defensively of him, do I have to worry that you're no longer on my side?"

His question made me chuckle at first as I stared him with a look of surprise on my face my eyebrows raised as I wonder what exactly he was driving at.

"I do not have any reason to leave your side. I am just saying I never knew Lex could be so violent. Why do you think I'm speaking up for him?"

Curiosity was getting the best of me, as I needed him to tell me why he would think that I was defending Lex and why he would even question if I truly was.

"I don't know, Lisa. I think maybe you have taken what he did today so lightly that you think he might have a justified reason to do this. Look at my face," he said, finally glancing at me as he looked away almost immediately, wanting me to see the bruises on his face.

I wanted to respond to him harshly and tell him that he was the one who was in the wrong by saying what he said to Lex and having Lex react that way, even though Lex said something first which he could easily have ignored, but fighting him, I realised I didn't have to go to that length to explain myself, and for the record, we did not have anything going on between us that would demand me defending myself before him.

"You know, Landon, when I was eight years old, I had this friend in middle school. We were like best friends in the world, and one day we were telling each other our secrets, and I told her my biggest secret is pretending to be happy with my father alone when I always miss my mum and wish she was the one with me every single time instead of my dad. I mean, this was like a few months before my dad gave me away."

I had got his attention completely now as he stared intensely at me, nodding his head slowly as I spoke.

"A few months later we had a fight, and right in front of my dad she said my biggest secret out loud, telling my father to his face that I told her that I always wished my mum was the one with me all this time instead of him."

I did not fight her; I didn't punch her face and cause so many injuries, but I was deeply hurt by that statement because I knew I only said it to her when we promised to each other that we were never going to tell anyone about it, and even with our fight, I did not have the intention of telling anyone about her own secret, but she just said mine so easily to get me pissed off about stuff which wasn't even worth it."

There was silence between us now, as I was very certain that he had gotten my message, and he just couldn't respond to me but was rather silent.

"It's a few minutes to dismissal, Landon. I should go pack up my things. I'll be right back to sign out of the clinic," I said as I managed to get up on my feet, but just as I was about to take a step, he held my hand back, making me stop without turning around.

"I'm sorry about what happened today, and I know you must think I am crazy already, but I am not. Lex came at me first; he said something to me that I have been struggling to move past, and that was why I did all of these things I've done today, including lying to him that we are in a relationship, which really got him vexed."

"Vexed?" I asked, turning around to face him this time. "Why the heck would Lex be vexed if we are in a relationship?