Disclaimer: I don't own Higher Ground or any of the characters from the show. All of the characters that you never heard of before are mine. I think you all no this stuff.

A/N: Next chapter for you. Thanks for the reviews. Three hours until the ball drops here. I'm only typing this chapter for an hour because I have to work on my term paper. Fun stuff right there. Ok enough about me. You want to know what Kelly has to tell Ezra so I'm going to get right back to it.

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Best Friend

They walked to the docks so they could talk alone.

"Kel what happened at dinner? You just blew up," Ezra said concerned.

"I couldn't take it any more. The way he stared and smiled," Kelly replied while getting chills thinking about him.

"Who? What happened?"

"Ezra," Kelly began to cry. "Tom raped me."

"Kelly I'm so sorry," he said, holding her in his arms.

"John was having a party when my parents were away. Tom was drunk when he came in. I screamed but nobody heard me. The music was too loud. When I hit John, he did scare me. The way he came in reminded me of Tom. I threw the lamp to protect myself. All throughout dinner Tom kept playing footsie with me."

Ezra sat there holding her listening to the terrible story. His blood boiled thinking about how he wasn't there to protect her. He was able to remain calm however.

"My parents put me here because I ran away and my attitude towards John changed."

"Where did you run? Why did you run?"

"I mostly stayed at Nicki and Tyler's house. I couldn't stand seeing Tom and being in my room."

"Why did you change around John?"

"I felt like he was kind of responsible. If he wasn't best friends with Tom and he never had the party then this may have never happened."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"I was ashamed and embarrassed. I thought your opinion of me would have changed."

"Kel nothing you could do would make me stop caring about you. You were there for me and I'm here for you now. You know you have to tell Peter about this."

"I know but I'm scared."

"Why?"

"I don't know."

"That nightmare you had. It was about what happened to you wasn't it?"

"Yeah it was."

"I think you should go see Peter now."

"Ok. Thanks Ezra."

"For what?"

"For being here." she said before kissing him on the cheek. He then walked her to Peter's office.

"Good luck." Ezra called.

"Thanks," Kelly said before knocking on Peter's door.

"Come on in," Peter called. He could tell right away that she had been crying. "Kel what's wrong?"

"I'm ready to talk," she said quietly.

"Ok," he said giving her his full attention.

Kelly told Peter the whole story.

"I'm going to have to report this to CPS. I think we better tell your parents tomorrow. We'll make it so Tom can't come near you. I want you to go and get some sleep. We'll talk more tomorrow," Peter told Kelly.

"Thanks Peter."

"I didn't do anything. You helped yourself by talking about it."

Kelly wiped the lingering tears from her eyes as she walked out of the office. She saw Ezra waiting by the door for her.

"How did it go?" he asked.

"Fine. We still have more talking to do. He's going to report this to the CPS and make sure to keep Tom away from me." she replied taking a deep breath.

"I'm sorry this happened to you. I wish I could have been there to protect you." Ezra looked like he was going to cry.

Kelly gave him a hug and said, "It's ok Ez. Don't think this was your fault. The only person whose fault this was is Tom. We better get some sleep."

"Good night."

"Good night."

They both walked to their dorms. They were pass curfew.

"What were you doing past curfew?" Daisy asked Kelly.

"Talking," she replied.

"To who?" Shelby asked.

"Ezra and Peter," Kelly answered while getting ready to go to bed.

"What were you talking to Ezra and Peter caught you and punished you?" Shelby asked being nosy.

"No."

"Then what then?" Daisy asked.

"You really wanna know?" Kelly asked while sitting on her bed.

"Yeah," the girls said in unison.

"We were talking about how I was raped. Happy now?" Kelly said starting to cry.

Juliette and Kat went over to Kelly. Juliette put her arm around her.

"Now look what you two have done," Juliette snapped.

"Sorry," Daisy and Shelby said in unison.

"Do you know who raped you?" Kat asked.

"Yeah my brother's best friend. The one who came with my parents to visit me."

"I'm sorry," Kat said with compassion.

"It's ok."

"Yo EZ where have you been?" Auggie asked as Ezra walked into the dorm. [A/N: This conversation is happening at the same time as the girls. The Peter and Sophie one I'm going to write after this.]

"Sneaking out with Daisy?" Scott asked with a big smile on his face.

"No I had to talk to Kelly," Ezra replied.

"You've been doing a lot of that lately. You're not crushing on her are you?" Scott asked.

"I'm with Daisy," Ezra replied a little annoyed.

"Ok. Good night," Auggie said.

"Yeah good night," Ezra said while turning off the light.

As Sophie walked into Peter's office she saw him writing like a mad man.

"Take it easy Mountain Man." Sophie joked.

"I just had a talk with Kelly. Tom, her brother's best friend, raped her. She ran away to get away from him and the memories of what happened to her. I have to report this tomorrow and we're going to have to tell her parents," Peter said.

"That poor girl," Sophie said sincerely.

"Yeah but at least she told someone about us."

"Does anybody else know?"

"I think only Ezra and us. She wanted to talk to him before she talked to me."

"Are you ready to go home or do you still have paperwork to finish?"

"I'm ready," Peter said getting up from behind his desk.

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A/N: Almost all of the Cliffhangers know what happened to Kelly now. Next chapter things get interesting. The Peter-Sophie conversation wasn't in my rough draft but I thought it needed to be added. Updates might get a little harder to do because I'm done with vacation. I'll try my best to get the chapters up. Wow 3 A/Ns. Anyway thanks again for the reviews.