Her Nightmares Were His Dream:
Erin went home to an empty house. Her mother was in Florida visiting Erin's sick grandmother. Her father was an exec at some important company, and often worked well into the night. She was used to being home alone. At around eleven thirty PM, Erin went up to her room to take a shower. She did, and put a tee shirt and some boyshorts on. She went downstairs and got a bowel of cereal, carried it upstairs, and sat on her bed, watching TV, eating the cereal. After she finished it, she went down the stairs and put it in the sink. Now she was tired, so she went up to her room and crawled into her big, comfy bed.
She was asleep when she felt breathing on her neck. In her unconscious state, she believed it to be Ian. "Zip, stop." She swatted still sleeping. When the breathing failed to stop, she opened her eyes. A man was looming over her, she screamed, hoping that maybe her father was home. No luck. The man put his hand over her mouth and climbed on top of her. In the shadows she couldn't see his face, but she recognized his outline. It was Kevin Fisher. "I've been watching you baby. I want you so much." He whispered, ripping off Erin's boyshorts and sliding her shirt off. "Oh my god," Erin whimpered.
When Kevin was finished abusing Erin, he simply got up and climbed out of Erin's window. He left her lying naked in her bed, crying hysterically. She reached for the phone and called 911. The police arrived, and took Erin to the hospital. She and Ian hadn't ever even been intimate, they were waiting until they got married, but Kevin ruined it.
When Ian got the news, the stress he put himself through nearly killed him. Erin went to see him, and broke down hysterically, to the point where she couldn't breathe. Kevin ruined everything they'd been building for the past five years.
Ian and Erin became friends in eighth grade, began dating as sophomores, and have been inseparable since. Ian stroked Erin's long, wavy red hair in an attempt to sooth her. He hated Kevin. He broke Erin. He changed her. For now, there was this glassy distance in her deep greenish blue eyes that Ian had never seen. He didn't like it either.