Hello everyone! So this chapter is going to release some hard stuff, but nothing will be gory. I promise. I'm not into that. This chapter does mention rape.
As Lucas sits in the library during study hall, desperately trying to read a book, Alison comes up behind him, wrapping her arms around him. "Hello handsome." She says in a seductive tone.
She sits down across from him, and lowers her shirt a little so he can see her cleavage. "So is Riley's baby, yours?"
"Maybe." Lucas slams his book shut, realizing he won't be getting anything done now. "I haven't heard from her all summer, and I haven't had a chance to ask her yet."
"Well if it is yours, you should totally tell her to get it aborted." Lucas sighed and ran his right hand through his hair. "I mean it would ruin your reputation, and mine, and then I would break up with you."
"Alison, I will talk to her." Lucas stood up, grabbing his bag and walking out of the library.
As Lucas is walking in the halls he finds Riley in the hall, at her locker trying to put her books on the top shelf, but she can't reach and her growing belly is getting in the way. Lucas walks up to her, grabbing the books from her hands, and placing them on the top shelf. It was something he used to do for her last year every day. She was every O.C.D. about where her books where in her locker.
"So Riley, how are you." Lucas asks as he watches Riley moving things around in her locker.
"Lucas, we both know you are not here to ask me, how I am, so just get to the point." Riley turned away from her locker, leaning into her right leg, and crossing her arms over her chest which just barely rested on her belly.
"How long have you known that you're pregnant?" Riley ran her fingers through her hair, before turning back to her locker adjusting a few more things while deep in thought on what to tell him.
"That's none of your business." She slams the locker door shut, and she begins to walk away. Lucas grabs onto her wrist, causing her to begin panicking. "Lucas please let go of my wrist."
"Not until you answer my questions!" Lucas's grip got tighter, and his voice becoming louder, causing Riley's wrist to bruise, and her panicking to become worse.
"Lucas, let go!" Lucas could hear the shaking in her voice. He couldn't figure out why she was shaky, but Lucas wasn't the only one who had noticed it.
Corey and Harper happened to be walking through the halls when the conversation started. They kept their distance, just watching to see what would play out, but after Riley's voice began to shake, and Corey could see her knee's where going to give out at any moment, Corey jogged over lightly with Harper right behind. Corey put his hand on Lucas's chest, pushing him away from Riley, and Harper gently rubbed Riley's back, soothing her as she has done days before, during the summer whenever Riley would come to work with Corey.
Harper knew all that the Matthews and the Harts had been going through this summer. It was a lot to handle especially for Riley. Corey said he would take Riley to the nurses to lie down for a bit, and to calm down, if Harper would please escort Lucas too the principal's office.
As Lucas sat outside the office, Corey walked by him, barging into the Principal's office, slamming the door shut. About five minutes where spent before Mr. Ivan, the new principal asked for Lucas to come in. Mr. Matthews leaned up against the desk, and Mr. Ivan leaning up against the other side of the desk. Lucas sat down in a chair, and waited to be beaten in on what he did to Riley for either this summer, or for today, or for both.
Mr. Matthews's eyes began to well up with tears. He took a deep sigh, dropping his arms to his sides, resting his hands on the desk. "Lucas, I have failed as a father to both Riley and Maya. Riley has had a really rough summer and she gave me permission to clue you in on what happened." Lucas sucked in his breath, leaning forward, not wanting to hear about how Riley went into a depression over the break up. "A week after you and Riley broke up, we got a phone call that my dad, Riley's grandpa had a heart attack, and he passed away. We drove back home to be with my mom, and to attend the funeral. We spent two weeks there, helping my mom get everything in place, but while we were there, one night Riley and Maya went out to this old hangout that Mrs. Matthews and I used to hang out at. We thought it would be a safe place for them to go, since we knew the area pretty well, but we were wrong. As they were leaving the place, a couple of men, ambushed them, and they…" Corey couldn't speak anymore. He had been trying so hard to stay strong for Maya and Riley, but today was a hard day, and he just needed to let it out. Mr. Matthews stepped out of the office, and you could hear his whimpering in the office and a thud as he slammed his back into a wall, shrinking down to the floor.
Mr. Ivan directed the attention back to the story. "Riley and Maya where raped." Mr. Ivan paused before continuing. "The point is that we don't know if the baby is yours or if it's the attackers. So for the time being, we are asking you to just leave that part of the topic alone, unless Riley brings it up."
"I understand sir." Lucas did understand that for now Riley needed to be left alone. He also understood that Mr. Matthews was having a tough time staying strong for his family.
So I wrote this story for me because when I was a little girl, the age of 2 to be exact, until the age of 9 I was molested, and not that I would wish that on my worse enemy but writing is my best form of releasing emotions, that otherwise would not be released. That's why I say this is written for me, but I felt like sharing this.
