chapter 2
Eli's POV
When Clare called me that night I was confused, worried,and scared for her. It was 12pm on a friday night ,and she was crying. Something bad must have happened.
Flashback
I pulled up to the Dot to see Clare sitting on the sidewalk with her head bowed. Her shirt was ripped, her left cheek was bruised like she'd been slapped, and her whole body was shaking. I ran up to her and crouched down in front of her quivering body and lifted her tear stained face to look at me. Her eyes were glossy with tears and the look on her eyes broke my heart. They were filled with so much pain.
"Im sorry" her voice was hoarse and broke at the end.
"Sorry about what? What happened?" My worry came back at the slight guess of what might have happened to her.
"They came out of nowhere" she said between sobs. What she just said confirmed all my suspicions. She was staring into space like the event was running through here mind like a movie. All sorts of emotions came over me. Anger, sadness, hurt, rage, whatever you can name that has nothing to do with happiness.
Clare Edwards my best friend was raped and there was nothing I could do. I suddenly realized she said' they came out of nowhere.'
"How many?"
"What?" she looked up at me,a confused look playing on her face.
"Clare how many?" There was a long pause then she said
"nine" that rage took over my body.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS" I yelled rage evident on my face. Clare jumped at my tone and I calmed back down.
I picked Clare up off the ground bridal style and placed her gently in Morty and drove her to the hosptal.
Clare's POV
I was in so much pain physically and emotionally that I couldn't move. Eli picked me up, put me in Morty and drove to the hospital. In all reality I really didn't want to go to the hospital but I didn't have that much of a voice to protest. Morty came to a stop in front of the hospital staring out the passenger window at the glowing emergency sign. I was dreading having all those questions asked and testes done.
Eli ran to the passenger side of Morty and opened the door and scooped me up and my arms wrapped around his neck. I started to feel a little light-headed while Eli was carrying me into the hospital, everything was blurring around me. A sort of numbness came over me then everything went black.
Random POV
Eli was trying to get help when Clare went unconcious in his arms.
"no no no..wake up...come on you have to wake up" he mumbled to her trying to bring her back to conciousness, he shook her motionless body but with no luck she wasn't waking up.
"What's wrong with her?" a nurse ran up to him and started examining Clare when she was still in his arms. Eli couldn't think straight, all he could think about was that Clare was hurt and he had to help her.
Eli started to sob when she wouldn't wake up. He broke down seeing her limp unresponsive body in his arms.
"I-I found her i-in the a-alley...s-she was r-raped and n-now she's not w-waking up."
The nurse ran down the hall and came back a few seconds later with a wheel chair. Eli looked down at Clare and kissed her forehead and gently put her in the chair and the nurse wheeled her away.
End of flashback
Eli lay there with Clare in his arms watching her sleep. He marveled at how beautiful she looked when she slept. She looked so at peace, other than when she was awake. Clare was always so tense, on edge...depressed. She wasn't the same Clare that Eli fell in love with, but he still loves her anyone can see that even if he hasn't told her yet. Clare stirred in her sleep and opened her icy blue eyes to by met with Eli's emerald green ones.
"Hi" she said groggily.
"Hi, how you feeling?" Eli said in a soft voice rubbing her arm.
She let out a sigh "Much better that your here." she said smiling up at him. He leaned down and gave her a chaste kiss on the lips. They were both in bed, in eachother's arms until Eli's phone buzzed. He leaned over Clare and picked up the phone off the night stand.
"Hello" he answered. Fitz was on the other end.
"Hey man you up for some breakfast at the Dot...I get discounts since I work there." Fitz said.
"I don't know...can I bring Clare?" Clare tuned into the conversation as soon as her name was mentioned.
"Sure" Fitz said.
"Ok see you in 20 ."
"Later." Then the line went dead. Eli hung up the phone and turned back to Clare.
"Who was that?" Clare asked confusion evident on her face.
"Oh just Fitz, he wants to have breakfast at the Dot later" Eli said laying his head down on Clare's chest. Her eyes widened when she heard the name. Eli and Fitz have been best friends since elementry school and they've been inseperable ever since. They were always so happy and joking together and Clare didn't have the heart to tell him that he was also one of her rapists.
Eli's POV
Clare seemed a little tense almost...scared when I mentioned Fitz,but I'm sure it's nothing.
Speaking of Clare she's been in the bathroom for a while. I was laying in bed alone while Clare was in the bathroom. I got up and knocked on the door.
"Clare"
nothing
"Hey Blue Eyes you in there?"
nothing
I was starting to get worried so I turned the knob and pushed open the door and saw Clare huddled in the tub full of dark pink water. She looked more pale than usual and blood was still seeping out of her wrist. I ran over to the tub and shook her.
"Clare!" she didn't look up. I was terrified looking at her laying in a tub filled with her blood. The scene was like a horror film in reality.
"Clare wake up please!" I was panicing but relief took over when I heard quiet sobs and her body shaking.
"I-I cant d-do t-this" she looked up at me and her eyes the same look as the night she was raped.
"Can't do what?" She sounded hesitant when she wa answering me, like she was hiding something.
"I-I cant g-go to the Dot today"
"Why not baby?"
"I-I can't face him" Ok I was really getting confused now.
"Can't face who?" I asked. She shook her head and didn't answer and looked back down at her still bleeding wrist. I grabbed the towel on the iron rod by the tub and wrapped it around her wrist.
"Clare who?" She just nodded and kept crying. I was getting annoyed that she was hurting so much and wouldn't tell me why. She wouldn't answer me.
"WHO!" I yelled
"FITZ!" she yelled back and started to sob again. I embraced her in a hug and she wrapped her arms around my torso and cryed into my chest. What did Fitz do to her to make her so scared of her?
"Why would you be scared of Fitz?"
"He...uh...when..." she couldn't get the words out.
"It's ok just tell me baby." she looked at me with glazed over eyes and I couldn't believe the next thing she said.
"He raped me"
