After checking into her room and getting settled on to her bed with her kindle to continue her current book "Romeo & Juliet". She'd only just got settled when there was a knock on her hotel room door, Joe, Jon and Colby were on the other side..

"We're going down the bar for a few drinks and something to eat in a bit if your coming? It'll stop you falling asleep and scaring us and the rest of the hotel again"

Colby was grinning as he spoke, their faces expectant, however she wasnt sure which answer they expected. Really she needed to start trying to eat at least, or at least she needed to be a bit more open about her problem so they knew why she'd run away at the sight of food.

"Sure, i'll just get changed first...I may need help though, My corset seems to have knotted itself so i cant get out of it"

Jon quickly volunteered to help sort her corset and the other two left on the agreement on they'd all meet at Amelia's room in twenty minutes. As she removed her dress, revealing her skeleton like figure. She slipped into a skirt but she couldn't hide the bruises across her body. They were black, bulging and obviously painful. She looked like she'd been hit by a train, Jon thought. He moved across the room towards her, sat on the edge of her bed as he unknotted the lace of her corset. As it fell away from her body and she fastened the bra she'd been holding, he ran his fingertips over the bruises and felt her flinch at his touch.

"How the hell did you get these bruises? i didn't hurt you there did i?"

Amelia turned to face him, revealing the fresh scarring on her stomach and her other bruises. He couldnt hide the look of horror on his face. These injuries had been caused by someone, they were in no way an accident. She took a deep breath, sat down beside him on the bed, pulling a top on to hide the scarring and bruises before starting her explanation.

" 5 years ago, i met Aaron. He was 23 at the time and id just turned 17. He was my first boyfriend and a rubbish one at that. He was a junkie, a drunk and a serial cheat but i was stupid enough to stay with him. We moved in together on my 20th birthday and from then it just got worse. I wasn't allowed out without him. I wasn't allowed to use my mobile to contact my friends or family, nothing indepent. i was watched all the time. Then if i said something wrong, or wore something he deemed too revealling he'd beat me up as punishment. These, are from my last punishment before i went home and before he was imprisioned."

As she'd been been speaking she had watched the expression change on Jon's had been a look of horror but it had soon changed to a look of sheer rage. She had no reason why she was telling him, usually she'd have responded with a shrug and changed the subject but there was something about Jon that she trusted to know her dark secrets even though they'd only just met that morning. He seemed to care and she'd never known that from a guy, well except her dad but he didn't really count. he was her father and he had to care about her. She could see he was waiting to ask her something, probably trying to word it right".

"So, what was this barbaric "punishment" for? Was it this what he was jailed for?"

His voice was shaky and full of hatred. She could tell he didn't like hearing it but he was curious to know how it came to end that way. A tear rolled down her face. Revealling this part was going to be the hardest part of all. The part that broke her heart into a million pieces. She took a deep breath and prepared herself, she could feel her voice shaking before she'd uttered a word.

"This was because i told him a secret...I thought he'd of been happy or at least would of tried to change. It was his doing anyway. I wasn't allowed on the pill..he said meds would make me fatter than i already was. Boyfriends right he said. It could have been avoided but he was stupid and to say i was terrified of him was an understatement. He did this the day i told him. He went crazy, this wasn't why he was jailed though..."

Her voice trailed off. It was too much for her to go into all at once. It was the first time she'd spoke about it in the three weeks since it happened and to someone who was practically a stranger but it was a bit of a relief, just very overwhelming. For a moment they sat in silence on the bed before there was a knock on the door and Joe and Colby entered. They got up off the bed and walked past the other two out of her hotel room. she shot a side glance to Joe as she walked past and saw he'd raised his eyebrow at Jon in question of what they'd interrupted. No doubt he'd fill them in later but for now, the first time in months, she actually felt hungry and was going to attempt to eat something and have a fun night with the guys. Her dad had been right after all. They were good boys.