• “Oh” I said.
    “No I mean like do you think we can be friends again?”
    “No” I said atomatically.
    “Oh- um…why?”
    One reason.
    I still loved him. But I wasn’t going to tell him that. And I sure wasn’t going to lie to him.
    I sighed.
    “Watever , fine.”
    “Good so I can take you tomorrow to a dance party? Its just for hanging out I swear I don’t mean it for you to be my date or anything its just for fun.”
    “Joseph I-“
    “Please” he said.
    I sighed. My heart felt heavy. I just accepted to be his friend and he already invites me to hang out with him. I knew I shouldn’t have said anything.
    “Okay ugh.”
    He told me wear the adress was and everything. I wrote it down on a piece of paper. Tomorrow starting at 8:00 ending at 12:00.
    “Kay well ill see you there then” his voice sounded sweet. So sweet I wanted to kiss those lips—
    STOP IT JESSICA! UGH WTF! DON’T THINK OF THAT!
    “I’ll see you tomorrow.”
    “Bye”
    “Bye”
    I shook my head from the idea.
    But we didn’t hang up. I still heard him on the phone. It was like 10 seconds and no one had hung up so I decided to hang up.
    I finished my homework. Took a shower, and crawled up into my cozy bed. It took me an hour to go to sleep but I managed. What I didn’t know, was that tomorrow was going to be the worst day of my life.
    I woke up and got dressed. I spent the whole day reading. The whole day.
    When it came time for 8:00 I got on my dress. I put on my makeup, put on my high heeled shoes and waited downstairs.
    I ate a chewy bar. I ate slowly nibbling on it. By the last bite Joseph was outside waiting for me.
    He had a fancy shirt and nice pants. He smiled.
    “Beautiful as usual.” He said winking at me.
    I smiled slightly but I was really uncomfortable at the comment. In the car was silent. The only time we talked was when we finally got into the party. The music was blaring, drinkers everywear. I didn’t feel safe to tell you the truth. I was dancig with Joseph. When it came time to a slow dance it was awkward. We made the excuse of getting some coke. I was dancing having a great time though I didn’t know any of these people. Lights shined everywear. Some people dancing like maniacs, some dancing normal and some the werent dancing at all. There were all types of people here. The music turned to a slow dance.
    “Jessica wait right here im goanna go get us a drink.”
    I danced taking a glance at Joseph now and then.
    Everything changed in a matter orf seconds.
    I felt a hand cover my mouth and a nife to my throat. My heart spead up. I was being towed away. The person went through doors to get out secretly to the back of the party. I tried kicking him but it did no good. The man weighed tons more than I did with muscles like his. He brought me to the ally his hand still on my mouth. I bit his hands and tried to escape but two other men, both ragged looking stopped me and shoved me to the floor. I was panting, adrenaline rushing. What were they going to do with me?
    They all had messed up teath, and they smelled like alcochol. The tallest one came up to me and had tape in his hands.
    Oh my god…
    He got duc tape, ripped out a piece and put it right on my mouth as I tried to scream. But I couldn’t. The tape was on my mouth in a second. The man that was grabbing me throwed me further into the dark. There was no escaping this. There was not a way to leave unless I would go through them. They were to tough…I was going to lose.
    “Well hello there beautiful.”
    I shuddered. I couldn’t say anything, I was hopeless.
    There was no place I could go.
    “Men, assemble your places please.” He said smiling at me wickedly.
    A drunk man threw me to the wall. My head hit against the wall and it hurt like hell. There was blood pulsing through my head.
    I managed to escape the grip from the man and I started running but a skinny man went right infront of me and kicked me so hard on my leg that I collapsed to the floor.
    “Babey ill give you two choices. Very simple.”
    I was breathing heavily. My heart going crazy. My head pulsing. My leg hurting.
    “You can either put on your birthday suite and show us what a good time is suppose to be like. Or… I could kill you.”
    He took out a gun from the inside of his left jacket.
    I was cringed away from the gun. It was pointed at me. My eyes popped wide as I realised what was happening. I felt stiff, hurt, unsettled.
    “Well…” he said smiling at me.
    “Whats it goanna be?” He said coming up to me so that his lips were only inches from mine. I turned away from his face.
    He closed his eyes frustrated.
    “Fine…boys lets kill her.”
    Even though I had the tapes stuck to my mouth I whimpered loudly trying to tell them PLEASE NO!”
    They got the message.
    “So…show it is?”
    My whole boy went limp. I felt weak. I couldn’t do anything. I couldn’t run away. I couldn’t scream for help. I was there puppet. I didn’t have a choice. I looked down. My head barely nodded.
    “Good girl.” He said patting my head.
    “Boys, lets take her to our special room.”
    They grabbed my shoulders and pushed me to a room close to the party. The room was dark, no air conditioning, nothing. The windows were tinted. IT was an old place. The men threw me on the bed and I whimpered again. This couldn’t be happening! Not to me! not now! This wasn’t suppose to happen! PLEASE HELP ME SOMEONE! I thought. The man smiled.
    “Don’t worry baby you’ll have fun.”
    I have never felt so scared in my life. I was already sweating from nervousness.
    “Boys”
    He said turning around.
    “Let me and her have our privacy. You’ll have your turn with her too.”
    The boys turned around and locked the door shut. I could hear them mumbling. They were guarding the door.
    I whimpered as loud as I could.
    NO! WHAT! All of them!! WHAT ! WHAT IS HE TALKING BOUT! OH GOD PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME!
    I wanted to cry. So I did, I cried. I cried so hard I started shaking. The man just looked at me and smiled at my reaction.
    He then rubbed his hand on my arm.
    “Don’t worry hun, you’ll be fine.”
    His hand went up and down my arm. Then his hand movied to my waist and started taking off my shirt. I tried fidgiting trying to push him or something but I couldn’t. They had wrapped my hands with tape too. OH NO!
    My shirt went off.
    “What a cute young girl you are.”
    The man had horrible breath. His teeth messed up. He was in his late 30’s.
    “Lets see how pretty your legs are.”
    He took off my belt and pulled down my pants.
    He stared at me and smiled.
    “Im very impressed.”
    I cringed away from him.
    He grabbed my underwear. I was screaming through the tape. But all you could hear was mumbling.
    He stopped.
    “Don’t worry, we are almost getting to the good part.”
    I started crying non stop tears. He took of my underwear then got ontop of me. He then grabbed me roughly and turned me over. My back was to him. Pop. The braw strap came off.
    He took it off.
    I had never felt more embarassed, more scared, more humiliated, in my life…ever.
    He took off the braw and threw it to the floor.
    “You have a wonderful body. Now lets see how it looks when mine is next to yours.”
    I started screaming as loud as I could. He took off his shirt and it plopped to the floor. He took off his belt and threw it across the room. I heard something outside. He took off his pants and I closed my eyes wishing for a miracle.
    Then I heard a loud thud. I heard a siren. The police.
    The filthy man ontop of me ran out the door leaving me there bare naked with tape around my hands and mouth.
    This was a miracle.
    The cops came in and looked around and saw me. I saw them all turn around and look at the wall suddenly.
    Then I saw Joseph running in, he saw me then said, “Sorry!” he turned around so he couldn’t see me.
    “Um officers, can you bring officers that are woman it would make me feel more comfortable.”
    “Uh, Yes right away mam.”
    They all left. Joseph was still there, his back facing me.
    “Are you okay Jess?”
    “No” the moment I spoke my voice cracked. I realised I had been sweating and the tears were all over me.
    “I wish I could help you but I mean-“
    “Ya I got it.”
    “Unless you’d like me to come in and help you.” He said. I saw a part of his face change, a smile of course.
    “No thanks.”
    I lyed on the bed and then covered myself with the covers.
    “Jake you can come in now.”
    He turned around slowly.
    “Oh JESS!” he said.
    He fell right ontop of the bed and hugged me tightly. He didn’t let go.
    “Im so sorry.” He said, his face began to redden. I think he was about to cry.
    “I didn’t mean to! I was so stupid! Jess please PLEASE forgive me! I cant believe this happened. Its all my fault! Why did I do this!”
    “JAKE!”
    “what?”
    “I- I’m fine.”
    “Don’t lie to me.”
    “You just said a minute ago you werent fine.”
    “Well im fine now.” I said reasurring him.
    Woman officers came in.
    “Hun are you okay?!”
    “Yes, I am. All I really want to do is just get some clothes and get back home. Please find the man that did this to me, I want him stopped.”
    “You know we will try our best.”
    “Thank you.”
    “Well in the mean time ill go try to find a store and we will bring you back some clothes. Officers will be outside, youll be safe.”
    “Thank you mam.”
    “Your welcome.”
    She left and a group of officers were outside my door.
    “Im sorry.”
    He held my hand and I knew he sincerely ment it.
    “I know.”
    “Did the man” he said pasuing. Then he coughed.
    “have sex with you?” He asked his hand still on mine.
    “No, the officers came just in time.”
    “Oh jess Im so sorry!” he broke down in tears.
    “Its okay trust me. Nothing happened”
    “No its not!”
    “It could have been a killer, but no, it had to be a raper. It had to be someone who tortured you and forced you to do something like that.”
    “I will never forgive myself.” He said shaking his head back in forth in discust.
    “JAKE IM FINE.”
    “STOP LYING!” he screamed at me.
    I sat up on the bed and grabbed the covers to cover myself.
    “Im FINE.”
    “No- you are not”
    I put the covers under my arms. Then I put pressure with my elbows so it would hold. Then I grabbed Joseph by the neck and kissed him. I knew it wasn’t suppose to be like this. My love for Jake would always last. But I knew that if I didn’t convince him that I forgived him he would suffer for a very long time and its not worth it. My arms were so weak from the men that had hurt me.. The cover was held by the pressure from my elbows. I was so weak I didn’t notice that the covers were slipping. And Plop. They fell right in the middle of our kiss.
    I heard someone coming but I didn’t stop.
    I heard a voice,
    “I heard what happened and I wanted to see if—“
    We both froze at first, because the covers had slipped so from my head to my waist it was exposed and his breath caught as he stared at me.
    But I turned to see who was at the door.
    My heart litertely skipped two beats, not one, two. My face turned horrified.
    “Jake I-“
    I pulled up the covers immediately and clutched at them for dear life. This couldn’t be happening.
    Jake stood there frozen.
    Joseph stood there frozen.
    I stood there frozen.