Chapter 37
I walk out of the cla*s, one of the bag straps securely on my shoulders as I bring it forward to search through it. I mumble something incoherent as my fingers fumble through endless papers.
“Crap.” I groan as I stumble into a hard chest. I lost my footing and ended up tumbling on the floor. My knees hit the hard tiled floor and I grunt.
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“Shit sorry.”
I freeze, hearing the voice that currently haunts me at night. The voice of my attempted rapist. My heart thumps painfully as I clutch on to my bag for dear life. Peter’s here.
Finding the courage, I finally stood up and lift my head to stare into his eyes. I’m not surprised to feel the crippling fear as the images of him pinning me down resurfaces in my head.
“Look Ashley-” He looks at me with regret etched on his face. Purple dotted underneath his right eye and is a bit swollen. I see his lips moving but
somehow my brain doesn’t process a word he says.
My bottom lip trembles as I quickly turn around and run away from him. I’m knocking people’s shoulder’s and having them curse at me but I don’t care as I want to move away from Peter’s presence.
“Ashley, wait!” He begged. I could hear his voice now distant as I round the corner. My breathing is shallow as I struggle to ease my internal struggle. My brain is pounding inside my skull.
Anxiety is crawling inside my body, clutching unto me until I could no longer know where I was going. All I know is that I needed to get away from him, from his presence.
another chest. I stumble but a huge hand circles around my waist and prevents me from
pants as I struggle in whoever’s arms. “Ashley!” The voice sounds familiar. I breath in the scent of mint and
he pulls me more into him until we are
his chest as I try to regain back my composure. “He’s- he’s he-re.” I stuttered out and clutch on
voice that he was impatient to know who had scared
me until I could feel his hand fist
makes a move to pull away. I knew what would happen if he went to look for Peter. I didn’t
his shirt more firmly and shake my head. “Please don’t, I
tightly, it’s then I hear the mumbling around us and I realized that everyone was looking. Blake must
slightly jump at the aggressive tone. I heard their rushing footsteps and knew that they were now going on their own
Blake mumbles, moves away from me but clutches my way smaller hand as he guides me out of the school. It was supposed to be lunchtime but
to the field, underneath a huge tree that shades us from the heat of the sun. The field is empty except for some tiny black birds pecking
seem like just a friendly embrace. His back leans on the tree as he slings his arm over my shoulder
present in his tone but he tries very hard to mask it. I shake
I didn’t give him the chance.” I
for my answer I could
and rest my head between his shoulder and neck. He visibly sighs with
I hate that you’re battling this on
say. But I didn’t want that. I believe in second chances and by the looks of it, Peter had seemed regretful
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