Bay's POV

"It started about 2 or 3 months ago. I had gotten notes shoved in my locker and someone wrote on it once, but they were all just other deaf students who were mad I went there because I'm hearing. But, um." I feel my throat catch as I think his name.

"Kyle was the first one to threaten me. He left a note in my locker that said 'Leave if you don't want to get hurt. Avoid the alley behind Carlton.'. I remember feeling scared because I knew I had to walk home that day, and to get there I had to go through the alley. When I got there I saw someone standing there. I thought about leaving, but I thought I was overreacting. I walked really fast and hoped he wouldn't see me, but then he stopped and signed my name really slow. I asked him what he wanted in sign language and he looked at me and said he told me not to go there. That was how I knew he wrote the note. It escalated to him grabbing my arm and I couldn't move. He threw me to the ground and left. I had a bruise on my arm for a while. The next day he followed me to the parking lot when I went to my car and he accused me of being a poser and said to get out of his school and then he." I had to catch my breath. This was so much. I hadn't realized how much had happened until I needed to say it all at once.

"He kicked my side and ran off. I couldn't move and I had to have surgery for my ribs because he had broken one and it was pushing against my lung. About a week after that, he grabbed me while I was on my way to class. He pulled my under a staircase and had his hand over my mouth. I hit him in the stomach and he finally let me go, but he grabbed my arm and threw me to the ground. I remember my side really hurt when I hit the ground. I looked up and saw Kyle. I tried to get away but I was boxed in. He signed and just kept asking me all these questions. I was too scared to answer. Then he said 'You're so beautiful, except for those bruises.' he went on and on and said he felt bad for me, that I was waiting to go back to Emmett. Then he said 'I will be his'. I yelled at him. When I said he will never own me he said something then rushed up to me then I just felt." I feel a tear going down my cheek.

"I felt his lips on mine. And his hand holding my neck so I couldn't move. He lifted up my shirt and touched my bra. I hit him and when he let go I ran. I got in the car and drove somewhere to be alone."

"What happened the day you were abducted?"

"I was talking to Emmett and then I went outside. I went and sat in my car. When suddenly I heard the door open and I went to look who it was but he spoke first. It was one word quick. 'drive.' I look down and saw his bag lying open on the ground with a knife in it. I did what he said and drove."

"Why did you drive?"

"I wasn't going to ask him to get out of the car and take his knife with him. I was afraid for my life."

"What happened once you started driving?"

"After I left the parking lot he made me pull over and then he made me get in the passenger seat so he could drive. He drove to a store and told me to wait in the car. I thought about leaving right then and there, but I didn't know where I was and he had my keys. I reached into my pocket to get my phone but he came back out and saw me, so I couldn't. he came back and sat down with the bag. We had been driving for almost an hour. At one point he got out the car and came back with a bag with a bottle of vodka. He looked at me with this smile, and signed 'ready to have some fun gorgeous'. I wanted to die. At one point I think I said "please just kill me." and he said "that's for later". When we got to the park, he took me out of the car and said, 'you scream, and I will have to use this knife right now'. I was so scared. He walked me to the woods with the knife behind his arm pushed against my back his other hand was tight around my shoulder. A couple came up to us. He made me say hello and wave to them like nothing was wrong. Like we were just a couple like them in the park." I say repeating the exact same thing I said to Stephanie in the hospital.

"When we got to the clearing. I asked him what he wanted. I begged him to just let me go. I signed all of it so he would understand. I thought he was going to rape me and just leave me for dead. But then he opened the door that lead down into this room like a basement. It was all just dirt. It was six feet down and he threw me in like I was a bag of trash and I fell on my side. The next thing I knew he threw the hammer down. It came very close to hitting my head. I screamed. He came down and put the knife to my stomach and sliced it in a smooth red line across. He stared me in the eyes. Then he whispered in my ear, 'what did I say about the screaming'. That was what terrified me. He always spoke. Before that day, he never spoke, always signed. But he always spoke with that cruel deaf accent. He couldn't hear my screams. And since he couldn't, it felt like no one could." I can hear the hiccupping in my voice. I know I'm about to cry.

"Do you need a break?" I nod my head very fast and stand up to go to the bathroom. I lock myself in the stall and cry. It was all too much. It was all flooding back as I talked about it. I didn't realize how much I would have to say. But they weren't objecting and Miss Neal said I have to say everything that'll help our case. The way HE had looked at me when I came in was enough to make me sick. I had made the mistake of looking at him and I wanted to throw up. This was too much. Everything was just, too much.

end of chapter 36

so this is the first half of bays testimony. please review. I am so sorry this took so long to get posted but you guys don't want to hear my sob story. please review. i love you guys. 3