Beetroot, I'm assuming you're using D&D Fifth Edition character sheet. The reason it rolls two dice instead of 1 is in case you have Advantage or Disadvantage on the roll. You can just ignore the 2nd number if it's a normal roll. So, for your example above if it's a normal roll you would count it as a 21, if you had advantage it would be a 21, if you had disadvantage it would be a 13. Make sense?