It turns out just loving Kellie wasn't enough to fix her. And the rape was the one life-altering moment that made Kellie come into her own, embracing that dark mysterious quality she'd been fighting so hard to bury.
Thinking about it now, if it hadn't have been the rape, it would have been something else. I just didn't want to accept that she wasn't the same person she'd been before.
A month passed and Kellie graduated. We didn't elope like we planned.
In fact, we couldn't even be the same room together with Kellie pushing me away. It was always a similar scenario to the one when Kellie first got out of the hospital. Although sometimes, we'd up having a shouting match and before I knew it Kellie had shoved me out the door.
I had hoped that Ethan going to prison would help ease the tension between us. The case should have been open and shut. Then we found out Ethan was the illegitimate son of a crime lord Brandon Esoterra. That was how Ethan got early parole.
And to this day, although it hasn't been proven, it's assumed that Ethan's father had something to do with the loophole that set Kellie's rapist free.