She kept hitting me and more tears slid down her face. "How could you! I'm your girlfriend! You're supposed to love me!" She finally broke down into sobs and brought her hands. I put my arms around her and brought her body to mine. She dug her head into my shoulder and I left one arm around her waist while I petted her hair with the other.
"Sonny, I swear that it was nothing. I would never hurt you like that."
She lifted her head up to look at me. She nodded her head slightly and tried to speak but it just came out as her mouthing words: okay.
Other horrible memories filled my head as I tried to shake off this one.
I was walking through set, extremely irritable from not seeing Sonny all day, when I felt a soft tap on my shoulder. I smiled, expecting it to be Sonny, but, when I turned around, I saw something that I didn't anticipate.
A ball of angry, completely opposite of my Sonny, with blonde hair stood there staring at me. I thought she would be yelling at me for something I didn't do but she actually looked sympathetic. Something's up.
"What's wrong?" I was so surprised that she was actually caring about herself, unless she was just sad that her mirror broke, and then I could be angry again.
"Sonny's having a bad day. Can you please go talk to her?" She barely finished what she was saying because as soon as I heard the words Sonny and bad day in the same sentence I was out the door.
When I reached her dressing room I knocked on the door and heard a muffled 'come in.' Sonny was sitting on the sofa with her head in her hands.
She looked up at me and I could see pain in her eyes. "Chad….." She ran up to me and threw her arms around my neck. Her face buried into my shoulder and I could feel her breathing settle down.
I placed one hand on her lower back, drawing her closer to me, and the other on the back of her head, rubbing the back of her head. "Baby, what's wrong."
She looked up at me and her eyes told me that there was so much she wanted to say but instead she spoke three simple words. "I keep remembering."
"Remembering what, sweetie?"
"T-The night I was raped." My heart felt like it fell out of my ass. I can't have her feeling this way. I wanted her to forget, to not have these traumatizing memories anymore, but there was one thing I needed to know before I could comfort her.
"Baby, if you don't mind me asking, who was it that raped you?"
She pulled away from me and started walking backwards slightly. "I-I can't tell you, Chad."
"WHY NOT?" I was yelling. I swear to God that I didn't mean to, I was just aggravated.
"Chad, please-"
"WHY CAN'T YOU TELL ME? WE'RE GOING OUT. WE'RE SUPPOSED TO TELL EACH OTHER EVERYTHING. WHY CAN'T YOU TELL ME?" My hands bunched up into fists of anger and I walked over to her.
She shrunk back into the wall and turned away from me slightly. "Please don't hit me."
My eyes widened and my jaw became slack. "Hit you? YOU THINK I WOULD HIT YOU?"
She stared at me, breathing heavily, for a few seconds before she burst into tears and slid down the wall. "I was my dad, okay? I wasn't just raped once. When my mom was working late he would come into my room and say that we were going to play a game and have fun, but we didn't. We never did! A-And then I would tell him I didn't want to play and he would yell and every time he yelled he would hit me over and over again. I-It's my fault my dad's gone! Please don't hit me too, Chad. Please!"
I stood there, staring at her, as she sobbed on the ground in hysterical tears. I don't know how to comfort her; I never could even imagine living like she did. I reached out to touch her, to pull her close to me and tell her that everything was going to be okay, but when I made contact with her she cringed away from me, as if I would actually hit her.
"Sonny, baby." I reached down and pulled her onto her feet and into my arms. "It's okay. Everything's going to be okay. No one blames you for what happened. He hurt you and that never will happen ever again."
I promised her that she would never be hurt again, but I lied. I got her pregnant and when she was forced to move back to Wisconsin I never visited her. They all told me to stay so I didn't draw attention to it. I gave up on my pregnant girlfriend so my reputation wouldn't be tainted. God, I hate myself.
Walking down the street, I prayed that I would remember a good memory of us together and it happened.
"Chad, why are we here?" Sonny stood at the edge of the Mackenzie Falls baseball field, staring at it curiously.
"Last week you told me that you didn't know how to play baseball." I looked over at her and she was giving me a look that was obviously supposed to say 'and we're here because….' "Well, now you're going to learn." I grabbed her hand and pulled her over to the dugout. I handed her a baseball bat and led her out to home plate.
"Now, I'm going to teach you how to hold the bat." I stood behind her and slipped my arms around her waist, angling her body with my hands. I then moved my hands up her arms, positioning them correctly. I walked over to the pitcher's mound, ready to throw the ball. "You ready?" She stared at me with a blank expression, obviously not wanting to be here. "Come on. It's not that bad." I threw the ball slowly, but fast enough to reach her without dying out, and she missed by a long shot.
She whined and jumped up and down, angry that she couldn't do it. "Babe, just try one more time."
She started to lift the bat up to swing but then she smiled at me flirtatiously. "How do you hold it again?"
Of course she wanted me to hold her again. I mean, who wouldn't want Chad Dylan Cooper to be that close to them. "I know what you're doing. Don't even try it." She frowned slightly and lifted the bat. This time she actually hit the ball, not very far, but she hit it.
I watched her as she ran towards first base but instead of stopping there she kept running into the outfield, trying to get away. I ran after her and saw her look back at me and laugh. I kept gaining on her until I reached her and knocked her down, falling on top of her.
We just stared at each other for awhile until I finally decided to speak up. "How about we pick up from here tomorrow?"
"Here at the baseball field or in this position?"
I fake gasped and moved my face closer to hers. "Sonny, I'm not that kind of guy."
She smirked right back at me. "Why do I find that hard to believe?"
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