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I froze. I was frozen... He looked directly into my eyes. He had fierce, dark, scary eyes. He started walking towards me, I subconsciously took a step back. Steph, come on, put your guard on. Stay strong. Don't let him win.

"Steph, I just want to talk" he said. Talk? Why should I let him talk to me, when he wouldn't let me leave! You're disgusting! I screamed at him in my head. But for some reason I just couldn't get the words out. I was shaking. He took another step forward, and I took one further back.

"Look, let's cut to the chase. What happened on the weekend, it didn't happen. Don't tell anyone it did. They won't believe you. You have to keep it a secret. Or else you'll regret it. Got it?" I hadn't even realised but I had stumbled back into one of the book shelves and all the books behind me collapsed onto the floor. Oh my god. He was right. No one would believe me. I have to tell Uncle Jesse and Joey that I was lying. I'm too scared of what he'll do to me. I could feel myself sweating, I had shakes and tremors running through my body. My breath caught... I need to get out of here. It isn't safe. Get out of here! My subconscious was screaming at me.

I ran out of the library, not looking back. I ran through the corridors, past the classrooms and into the car park outside. I was heavily breathing by now, my vision was blurry and I even felt nauseous Oh no, I'm having a panic attack. As soon as I realised this, my attack became even more severe. My breath quickened and I couldn't stand still. I feel like I'm going to pass out! I can see black blotches, oh no...


"Stephanie, sweety..." I can hear my name, but all I can see is darkness. Hm, that's odd.

"Steph" Oh, that's my Uncle Jesse, why is he in my dream?

"Wake up honey" he cooed in my ear. Oh... I'm asleep! That explains it.

My eyelids fluttered open, and once my eyes adjusted to the light I took in my surroundings. White walls, white roof and while floor. I'm in a bed. Oh great, I'm in the nurses room. I look into a pair of very concerned eyes.

"What happened?" I ask because I can't quite remember.

"Honey, you passed out. A student saw you having a panic attack and brought you here" My Uncle started rambling on about how if I wasn't ready for school I should have just stayed home. But I wasn't listening to him. I was remembering what had happened in the library. He was there. A shudder ran through my body. Hold on, if everyone was in class, who would of seen me to bring me to the nurses office? Oh my god! He must of followed me and saw that I passed out. Oh my god! What if he touched me again.

"Steph you okay?"Uncle Jesse asks while running a soothing hand through my hair.

I'm trying to speak but I just can't let the words out. "I... He... " and before I know it, I think I'm having another panic attack. My breath fastens again and I'm finding it very difficult to breath, tears come streaming out of my eyes. Uncle Jesse quickly grabs a paper bag, "breathe into this" he orders. I do as I'm told and calm down. After a few minutes my breathing has returned to normal and I've stopped crying. I shyly give the paper bag back to Jesse.

"Steph, we were... we were just talking, what happened? You're really scaring me" he admitted, and I realised he was right. I can see it in his eyes. He's scared for me. That makes two of us. I've already told him everything so far, I trust him. I should tell him what happened today.

"Okay, but um, please don't do what you usually do and get really angry and start screaming" I hoped for. He just looked at me waiting for me to start. "I got to school a little early today and went into the library to get ahead on some work. I was alone, no one was in there. Well, I mean I thought that nobody was in there." I tell him.

"What do you mean?" he asks me.

"Well, um" I take a deep breath in. "The guy... um, the... the guy that" I felt hot tears in my eyes. "the one that did this to me" I say while looking at myself. "he was there and um"

"Oh god Steph, please don't tell me, he didn't try anything again did he?" he asks me.

"No, no" I reassure him, and I can see he is slightly relieved, but only slightly. He still wants to know what happened though.

"He told me that..." that's when I remembered his threat.

You have to keep it a secret. Or else you'll regret it. Got it?

His voice is ringing in my ears. Oh Steph, no, no, no, you can't tell him. Tell him you lied or something.

"Steph..." my Uncle urged me to continue on.

"Um, he just made me realise what really happened." I announced. Hopefully he will believe this.

Uncle Jesse's eyes narrowed down to me. "What really happened?" he asked.

Quick Steph think. "Nothing happened, I was lying. I'm sorry" I said while looking down.

He just sighed and sat down next to me.

"Stephanie, sweetheart, I know that you weren't lying. The way you have been acting these past few days proves that. I wish it was all a lie, but I'm sorry darling I don't believe you" He looked at me expectantly. I didn't know what to say. What am I supposed to say? He obviously didn't believe me. Although, in his defense he has reason to, I haven't been acting like myself lately and I hate it.

He is obviously still waiting for an answer, but I just turn my head to the side and ignore him.

"Stephanie, what did he say to you?" he asks me. I know the right thing to do is tell him, I know that. But lately my judgement has been off. Way off. I just don't know what the right thing is to do anymore.

"Honey please look at me?" he almost begs me. I turn around and look at him.

"Did he threaten you?" he asks. How does he know? he knows everything. I'm too afraid to answer. I look down at my hands.

"This is serious honey, did he threaten you?" he asks me again.

I just nod at him. He sighs, obviously frustrated and angry, not at me though, hopefully not at me. I couldn't stand it if after all this he was angry at me. He takes a hold of my shoulders and looks me directly in the eyes. "I will never, ever, let him hurt you again. Do you understand me? Never. He won't touch you. You don't need to be afraid anymore, he can't hurt you now" he promises me. I wrap my arms around him and hug him. I really hope he's right, oh gosh I hope he's right.


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