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Chapter 10

There's a deafening silence in the room as I waited for someone to answer me. The silence was making my muscles tighten in suspense, and my eyes widen greatly. When nobody answered me, I turned my eyes to the large man beside me.

"Rose…" he trailed off, eyes trailed on the carpet, "how about you sit down."

"No, just tell me Dimitri," I snapped, yanking my arm away from his grasp. Upon doing this, I felt a soreness seep into my arm. I flinched slightly and looked down at it, seeing a light bruising on my forearm.

"Your arm isn't broken but it will be sore from falling on it." Dimitri told me, running his fingers over the bruise softly. I gulped loudly before finally sliding my eyes from the marks and towards the ceiling.

"Where is he Dimitri, please just tell me." I whispered, never taking my eyes away from the ceiling. I heard him sigh softly; trying to think about what he was going to say before motioning me to take my eyes off the ceiling.

"When you left the house, Mason knew that something was wrong, so we decided to follow you." he took in my reaction, but I just stared at him emotionlessly. "When you stopped at the park, we parked a couple streets down and got out to move where you were. By the time we got there however, you were gone. We saw another car in the lot, and thinking that that was your 'associate' we trailed after you."

He took a deep breath, as did I, my thought trailing back to the events that happened. He continued finally, reaching forwards and grabbing my hand unconsciously. I needed that hand just as much as he did and tightened my hold on it.

"We saw the men, carrying you, trying to quiet your screams, and we saw them throw you on the ground, behind a bush. By this time, Mason was telling me to call the police, which I did, and he then tried to sneak up on the two men.

"I watched as he was caught and…and he was beaten thoroughly. I ran forward to help and managed to knock one of the unconscious. I called your name and saw another guy get up from the spot that he had you and run off with the other guy on his tail. I would have run after them, but I couldn't leave you there, or leave Mason there." He finished, catching my waist as I started to fall towards the ground.

Tears streamed down my face, thinking about the pain that Mason could be in at this moment. If he was alive…I tried to quiet my sobbing, trying to get the words out.

"I-Is he-he ali-ve?" I stuttered, gripping his hand even tighter. Dimitri grimaced and grabbed onto my shoulder, rubbing soothing circles into my muscle with his thumb.

"He is currently at the hospital and is in critical condition as we speak," Dimitri whispered. I choked on something in my throat, maybe saliva, maybe even my heart, but it hurt. I looked around the room, hoping that this would just fade away and I would be taking some shots for the next magazine, but it never happened, I was still in a weak, torn, dirty body, with one of my best friends in the hospital because of me.

"This is my fault," I whispered, wiping tears from my eyes, only for them to be replaced by more. Dimitri looked stunned by my outburst and made me look at him in the eye.

"None of this is your fault Rose, don't even think like that," he stated, tightening his hold on me. I shook him off though, taking one more look around the room before turning and walking back to my room. Dimitri tried calling me back but I ignored him and locked the door behind me.

I started getting ready, trying to avoid the sore spots, and walked towards the bathroom to clean myself up more. As I walked into the bathroom, I looked up and gasped.

"Oh my god," I whispered, tears once again forming in my eyes. My fingers trailed the long, red scar. I looked at the ragged cut, the red skin irritated and puffy; it ran from my right eye down towards my chin harshly. My eyes wouldn't look away, and my mind couldn't look away from the mark that Nathan left with me.

Scratches and bruises littered the rest of my face, but I knew that those would go away. The scar would stay there forever though. I splashed water on my face and tried to brush a little powder on my face though it helped little. I brushed my teeth and my hair before grabbing my keys and walking back into the living room.

"Wait! Rose, where are you going?" My mom exclaimed, scrambling to get up from her spot on the couch. I shook my head at her, making her pause.

"I'm going to the hospital, I need to see him," I told her, giving her a stern look before she could reply. I walked out the door quickly, slipping into my car and turning it on. Before I could back out though, someone knocked on the passenger window. I sighed before rolling it down for her.

"Can I come with you Rose," she whispered, worry shining in her eyes. I thought about it, believing that she wouldn't ask questions, and let her in.

I was driving for some time before Lissa started talking.

"Will you tell me what happened Rose?" I froze, closing my eyes for a quick second before opening them and staring straight ahead.

"Don't Liss; please just don't make me remember…" I shivered in disgust and pulled into the hospitals parking lot. We sat in silence for a minute until she whispered a sorry and got out. I followed suit and we walked into the entrance calmly.

"Miss? Can you point us towards the room that keeps Mason Ashford?" I asked the receptionist behind the counter. She looked bored and was chewing her bubble gum obnoxiously.

"101," she stated before returning to her game of pinball. My anxiety started coming back as I nearly ran towards his door. I burst through it quickly, scaring a doctor who was in the middle of checking him. My eyes widened as I started at his beaten body.

Both of his eyes were swollen shut, cuts and bruises were scattered around his whole body, and his right arm was in a sling. I took a shaky step forward, reaching out towards him before I pulled back. Turning towards the doctor, who was currently staring at me worried, I looked at his name tag and read 'Dr. Lance'.

"Is he okay?" I asked him quickly. I listened to the heart monitor and it seemed a little too fast, but I was unsure of all the medical instruments that doctors use.

"Is he…recovering? It will take a few weeks before he can function probably and his arm will be in a cast for little over a month, but he will live." Doctor Lance smiled reassuringly at me, and then wrote a couple more things on his clipboard.

"So he will live?" I whispered, staring at the beaten body.

"He will live, though we did have a scare when his heart stopped working, but by some miracle…it came back and he recovering as we speak." My breath had hitched when he said that Mason's heart had stopped, but I let it out when he said that he was recovering.

Recovering…see Rose nothing to worry about. I whispered to myself in my head. But there were loads to worry about, what he actually came after my friends? My family? What if he actually…killed them?

I felt myself hyperventilating as the thoughts grew more rapid and strong. I was scaring myself more than Nathan could at the moment.

"Rose, calm down, he's fine." Lissa whispered, rubbing my arm soothingly.

"But Liss, what if he comes after you…or Christian? He could be following me right now!" I whispered frenetically. Her eyes started widening as I talked, but she grabbed my arm before I could say any more.

"Rose, you are scaring yourself. Your letting your thoughts runs wild and it's not good." Lissa whispered, moving me to a chair.

"Is everything okay?" Doctor Lance asked worried. I could reply, but I heard Lissa give some sort of reply that I didn't hear. I didn't know he was gone until Lissa started talking louder.

"Rose we can help you, we are your friends. Can you just tell me what happened? Please," she asked, holding my hand in her petite one.

"I-I can't," I whispered, pulling on my hair. "I don't want to relive what he did to me. He almost…he almost…." I couldn't even finish the sentence.

"I know Rose, but you can trust me. I will be here the whole time, I won't let your hand go and I promise that you won't have to say it again, but Rose it's me, only me." She whispered smoothly, smoothing my hair down calmly. I looked at her in the eye, searching, for what I didn't know.

"I got a phone call at work; I didn't know who it was. They said that…they said that they had my dad. He had gone missing weeks ago and that's why my mom is at my house, she was worried. The guy said that I had to meet him at Cold Wood Park, or he would hurt my dad.

"I wasn't focused the rest of the day, and when I got back to the house, I was jumpy and scared, and I gave Dimitri a broken nose. He was worried but I couldn't tell him, I couldn't tell anybody. Mason showed up but I told him that I was meeting an associate at Cold Wood Park. I don't know why I told him the name, I guess so they knew where I was, but I was glad that I did.

"I drove to the park and when I got there it was already turning dark. I found a knife in the compartment on the passenger side and hid it in the waist band of my pants. The next second…two men were pulling me out of the car and making me face another f-figure who was hidden by s-shadows." I squeezed my eyes shut, not wanting to continue on, but I felt Lissa squeeze my hand in strength.

"He said that he dated my mom in high school and that one night she cheated on him with my dad, but he forgave her, until I showed up in the picture." I whispered, my voice shaking harder.

"He wanted my mom in turn for my father," I cried, pulling at my hair with my free hand. I heard Lissa gasp, shocked at the deal that was made.

"I couldn't do it….I couldn't just give my mom for my dad! It wasn't right, it was horrible!" I sobbed, bringing my knees up to my chest. Lissa whispered in my ear 'I understand' and 'that's horrible', so I decided to tell her the worst part. "So I told him that he could have me instead."

"Rose!" Lissa gasped, startled. It was hard to breathe as I sobbed, but I couldn't stop the words that were easily flowing from my mouth.

"I said it was my fault that they couldn't be together, not my mom's fault, but mine. I told him not to hurt and to leave her out of this. He didn't know if he wanted to take me up on his offer, and I realized what he really wanted and I made the mistake of giving him myself. I started getting scared, I wanted to take everything back, but it was too late, I gave him the idea and he decided that he would have a 'taste' before he took me up on my offer.

"His men grabbed me and started making me follow the guy, and I screamed and kicked until they covered my mouth and grabbed my legs. I was useless, I was weak, and I was terrified! I wanted to leave; I wanted to take back my offer. I didn't want my body to turn into a dirty, cheap trash.

"I knew he was going to rape me, and nothing I did was working. The men threw me on the ground behind a bush, numbing my arm. I tried to get away but he grabbed me and fell on top of me. As I started sobbing, he shoved my head into the ground to shut me up.

"He started to pull my shirt up and he found the knife. He slid it down my face, leaving me with a scar that will stay with me forever, a little piece of him. He then took my shirt off and annoyed him so he made me hit my head again and I felt myself losing. I was letting him win. I was going unconscious and when I did he could have his way with me. I was terrified, and I was….I was giving up." The pictures were clear in my head, making my head dizzy and light. I think someone was calling my head but I was lost in the images, letting them scar into my brain and remind me that I am weak and dirty, and he will be back.

"Rose, you are not there. Listen to me, listen to my voice, I am squeezing your hand? Do you feel that, come on Hun, you are here." I blinked, gasping and shaking horribly. She sighed in relief and engulfed me in a hug.

"I'm so sorry Rose; I never wanted any of this to happen to you. You are the strongest person I know; it wouldn't be possible for me to be standing where you are right now after this happening to me not only two days ago. Rose, don't think that because he knocked you out that you are weak and dirty. You are everything but." Lissa told me, eyes fierce and gaze unwavering. I quivered more, feeling his touch on my skin.

"I still see the images Liss; I still feel his grimy hands on my body. They won't go away," I cried, covering my body more with my coat, though it didn't make any difference.

"Can you tell me who it is Rose?" I closed my eyes, biting my lip so hard that I felt blood seep through.

"Nathan, his name was Nathan," I replied, the name bringing the images to the forefront of my mind. I felt myself start to shake more, but realized that it wasn't me that was shaking but my phone in my pocket. I grabbed it and read the text on the screen.

Now Rosemarie that was a bad move on your part.

My breathing turned ragged as I searched the room, trying to find him. How could he have heard that conversation? He is following me; I didn't even know where to look.

The door handle turned and I braced myself for him to come strolling through the doors ready to finish what he started, but Doctor Lance was the only one that walked in with a small smile on his face.

"Sorry, one of the nurses said that they forgot to tell me to give him some morphine. Let me inject this in and I will be out of your hair for the rest of the day." He told us smiling. We watched as he inserted the medicine and we could see the instant effect.

"Is that supposed to be happening?" I asked hurriedly as his heart rate started speeding up. The doctor looked frazzled until he started checking all of the readings.

"What is happening? This shouldn't be happening! I need all Doctors to come to room 101 immediately. I repeat room 101." Soon a lot of Doctors were filing into the room and running around. Doctor Lance walked up to us and told us that we had to go.

"NO! What's going on! What's happening to him?" I cried, trying to push past his arms as he walked us out.

"We will send someone to inform you after we take care of this, please go wait in the waiting room." I looked helplessly as the swarming doctors and him before nodding and walking towards the waiting room with Lissa.

Thirty minutes later, Doctor Lance walked into the waiting room looking sullen. He walked straight towards us and bent down so that he was eye level with both of us.

"I'm sorry ladies, but someone had changed the morphine with another dangerous liquid that we only use with the most critical of patients when we see they are not going to live. I'm sorry to inform you that Mr. Ashford did not make it through, we lost him almost immediately."

I sat there in shock, tears running down my face as he told us the news. Lissa's mirrored mine and we gripped each other's hands tightly. I felt another vibration from my phone and flipped it open slowly.

See Rosemarie, now his death is on your shoulders. You play by my rules or people around you will get hurt. See you soon.

Soo, don't kill me, pleaseee I hate Nathan too, blame him, not me...or at least try too? :/ Please review I would love them alott! If you have any questions so far just post them in a review and I will get back to you!(: