When We Wake Up
Chapter 13
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"I'm the reason my parents are dead." Carly put her head in her hands and cried.

Sonny looked over at the woman before him. He just stared, stunned by her news. He watched as the woman before him broke down. He moved closer and put his arms around her and held her close.

"Shhhh, Carly honey, its going to be alright..." he whispered into her ear. Carly sobs harder and pulls away.

"Carly...."

"Sonny, don't....I don't deserve to be treated nicely. I deserve to pay." Carly paces the roof while Sonny looks on.

"Carly tell me what happened" he grabs her hand as she walks by and pulls her into the chair. "Carly its ok.....I'm here, tell me...."

"Sonny, I don't know if I can. I've never told anyone. You'll hate me."

Sonny smoothes back the hair on her face. "Carly, no matter what, I could never hate you" he kisses her forehead. "Now tell me what happened"

"Sonny....." Carly starts to tremble harder and Sonny pulls her into his lap. "My parents died because of me, I killed them."

"Carly..."

"No Sonny, if I'm going to tell you I have to get it out..." She snuggles up to him, needing his strength to get her through this. "When I was sixteen I met this boy, right off I attached myself to him, loving the attention I was getting. I was soo excited, me a junior had a senior all over her. See, my parents worked allot and I was an only child. They couldn't help it, but I wanted more. I didn't know what I had till I lost it" Carly cried and Sonny held her till she continued.

"We dated for about six months before we went to this party. I thought it was a regular birthday party....little did I know." Carly sat up and took a drink of water. "It was a drug party." Carly watched as Sonny took in the part about the drugs, she saw him look away in disgust.

"See I told you...you would hate me." Carly cried and ran for the stairs.

Sonny was stunned for a moment, but quickly came to his senses and chased her. He caught up with her and gently grabbed her pulling her against him. Carly's body was now racking with sobs.

"Carly, shhhh, its ok.....its ok." Sonny rocked his body back and forth trying to sooth her. "Honey, its not you. I just don't like drugs." he pulls her chin to him. "Carly...its ok...I promise " Carly nods and Sonny leads them back to the table.

Carly sits down and puts her hands in her lap staring off in space. Sonny had never seen someone in soo much pain. "I didn't know what he was bringing me into. Once we got there, I still didn't know what was going on till my boyfriend was high as a kite. I don't' know how I missed it, the whole party was doing it. I was very naive and he talked me into trying it. I tried it and didn't like it. I told him no. He got mad and made me leave. I walked home, two miles to my house. I told my parents that his car broke down and I walked so I'd make curfew. They believed me and I went to bed. I didn't hear from him again until Monday when we went back to school. The bastard couldn't even remember what happened." Carly got up off the chair and started to pace again.

"I told him what he did and he apologized. I believed him....I thought I loved him....." Carly looked down at the floor. "Things were fine again for the next couple of weeks..or so I thought. I had an early curfew and he didn't. He used to go out after he dropped me off and get high...I didn't suspect anything, he sure fooled me."

"A couple weeks before my birthday he started buying me things. He would buy me expensive jewelry, flowers everyday, clothes...anything I wanted. I asked him where he was getting the money and he told me he got a good allowance. I didn't question it, he came from a rich family. He gave me hints all week leading up to my birthday. That morning he had a dress sent over by messenger. I was sooo excited. I got ready at the time he said he'd be there and he showed up in a limo. I couldn't believe it, little old me getting in a limo. We went for dinner and it was wonderful. When dessert came I looked over and there he was on his knees proposing. I was soo excited. I accepted, we danced and then we left."

Carly began to shake and Sonny stood up and put his arms around her. "On the way home we were in the back making out when we were bumped from behind....someone was ramming us. They kept hitting us and hitting us. I pushed away and put my seatbelt on. My boyfriend didn't. We went to co around a curve around the lake and they hit us on the side and we rolled down the hill." Carly buried her face in his shoulder.

"Chris went flying and I just kept being jerked around, thankfully held in by my seatbelt. The car finally stopped when it hit the water. Somehow I managed to unbuckle my seatbelt and break the window. I don't remember all the details."

"I looked around for Chris but couldn't find him. I thought he had gotten out. I started to swim to shore and that's the last I remember. I woke up in the hospital a couple weeks later. I found out Chris had drowned with the car, he didn't get out." Carly sobbed hard and Sonny held her. Knowing the pain she was in and wishing he could take it away.

"Carly, its alright honey..."

"No its not, you haven't heard the bad parts..." Carly looked away from him. "I recovered fine and went home a couple days later. I went back to school and everything appeared to be normal..until one day I was walking home from school and three guys cornered me."

Sonny pulled her chin up to meet him. "What did they want Carly?" Scared to find out the answer.

"Their money"




Sorry this chapter took so long. I'll get another out soon. Thank you all for reading this, please leave feedback!! Also please excuse any typos, I'm not at home and don't have spell check lol.

~Sting~