As the medication wore off, images began flashing within my head. Snap shots of things I had seen throughout my life, but they were going so fast, I couldn't make them out.
Except for one.
Andrew, looking down on me as I lay beneath him, a wicked grin on his face.
The face of a monster.
I squeezed my eyes shut tightly against the images. "Go away!" I cried, covering my ears, sinking to my knees.
I pressed my fingers hard into the sides of my head, trying to block out the sounds. The sounds always came next. The audio playback of the events of that night last summer.
My body felt like it was on fire…
"No, don't! Please stop!"
"Shut up!"
"STOP!"
"STOP IT!"
My world went up in flames.