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“It might earn you some points in earning her forgiveness.” He laughs.
“Are you alright, man?” I finally ask seriously, addressing the elephant in the room.
“I’m fine so far. I’ll be back in school in a few days. It was just some kind of stomach bug,” he says with a smile on his face.
“You’re not lying to me?” I question. He rubs his nose before responding to me.
“No,” he says, lying to me. When your friends with someone for years, you pick up on their tells. Ez rubbing his nose is his tell when he’s lying.
I don’t know what to do because I can’t force him to tell me whatever he clearly isn’t ready to tell me. We chat for a while longer. When it looks like he’s ready to take a nap, I leave him, telling him I’ll be back soon to visit.
I’m exhausted by the time I get home. I make my way up to Raine’s room. I hear something breaking followed by sobs. I don’t think. I just spring into action right away because that can’t be good.
I run all the way downstairs and into my father’s office before opening his safe that has the keys in it. I quickly look for the one to her room and lock up before rushing back up the stairs.
I quickly open her door and rush inside. She’s not on her bed so I take another step to move to her bathroom. What I see there makes me stop in my tracks for a second.
“Baby! What did you do?” I gasp out in a pained voice before snapping out of it and rushing toward her.
Sixteen
RAINE
It’s dark.
Why is it so dark?
I faintly hear someone calling my name. Who would be calling my name right now? I’m so confused.
Things get a little clearer and then I hear the voice calling my name again. This time it sounds louder. Ominous. Like whoever the voice belongs to wants to hurt me.
I look up and realize I’m running. Why the hell am I running?
I don’t understand what the hell is going on anymore. Am I going crazy? That would seem like the best possible explanation to explain what the hell is happening to me.
I frantically look around but nothing is familiar. The only thing that’s running through me right now is fear. Why am I afraid? What the hell am I afraid of?
The scene changes and I’m flat on my back on hard concrete. What the hell?
Before I can even get up, a hard body lands on top of mine. I try to scream but a hand whips out and covers my mouth, preventing me from screaming. It’s difficult to breathe. It feels like I’m about to have a panic attack.
“You didn’t think I’d catch you, did you?” the voice sneers beside my ear. It’s filled with hatred and something else, though I don’t know what it could mean.
I finally manage to look up into the person’s face but all I see is a mask and eyes as cold as ice with nothing but malice and hatred inside them.
What could I have possibly done to make this person hate me so? I’ve never been a troublemaker. Why do people hate me? My mind is so foggy right now. I’m trying to remember things but nothing is registering. Come on, brain, work with me here!
A scream manages to rip out of me when I feel hands roam my body, and then my clothes are being ripped off of me.
“No! No!” I scream but the person doesn’t stop. He just keeps undressing me no matter how much I beg and plead for him to stop. “Please don’t do this! Please stop!”
My begging must annoy him because he starts hitting me. I get slapped and punched. I sob because I don’t know what I did to deserve this.
“I told you you’d pay for not wanting me!” he snarls. This time, when I look up, I see Trent’s face just as he enters me.
A scream rips out of me and I jackknife up into a sitting position in bed. My heart is racing and my breathing is erratic. I’m naked and tangled up in my sheets. I’m sweaty.
I look to my door and see that it’s still closed and I let out a sigh. It was just a nightmare…
