"Reese, you have a phone call from one of your friends in Harmony." Said his mother from the next room.
Reese went into the living and got on the phone thinking it was Jess.
"Hey, Jess I'm glad that you called," said Reese smiling.
"Reese, it's Kay, I have some bad news."
Reese's heart sped up, it sounded like Kay was crying.
"What's wrong? Where's Jess?"
"She's at the hospital-she." Kay stopped to get a hold of herself. "She was attacked." Said Kay crying.
"No." said Reese his heart plummeting into his stomach.
"She keeps calling for you....can you come to Harmony?" he heard Kay take a steadying breath.
"My parents have a jet I'll be there in 40 minutes." Said Reese hanging up. He had to be there for her. He told his parents what happened and they drove him to the air field where Reese left for Harmony.
Jessica layed in her hospital room all alone, a million thoughts running through her head. The biggest thought on her mind was what if she was pregnant. She didn't want a baby right now or what if she had been infected with HIV. She couldn't take all of the 'what if's' so she blocked it all out and started to concentrate on the wall again. What would Reese think of her? What did her family think of her? She just wanted to curl up and die. She was to worried and scared to fall asleep so she just looked at the wall. He head hurt, Eve had told her that she had a mild concussion and that she would have to stay overnight but she didn't want to. She wanted to turn back time to a place when she was little and her only worries were what Barbie dolls to play with and how to get her parents to let her stay up late, but that was all gone, it seemed like another place, had she ever been that young, that innocent?
An hour later after her bruises and cuts had had pictures taken of them and the small wounds she had from the knife were cleaned she heard the door open and she hoped it wasn't her family because for some reason she couldn't look them in the eye. "Go away." She said softly.
"Jess." Said Reese gently as his heart broke as he saw her curled up, from what he could see her arms and face were bruised.
Jessica heard his voice and at first she thought it was cruel joke but when she looked up there he was. In a second she was out of the bed with her arms wrapped around him crying her heart out.
Reese gently closed his arms around her. He was expecting her not to even want to see him since she wouldn't let anyone touch her and wouldn't even talk.
"I'm so scared." She repeated over and over into his now soaked shirt.
"I know Jess but I'm going to be here for you." Said Reese kissing the top of her head. He didn't know how long they stayed like that but finally Jessica's sobs ceased and she started breathing normally.
"I'm sorry I wasn't here, I'm so sorry." Said Reese leading her over to the bed so she could lay down and he sat in the chair beside the bed.
"It's done and I just want to forget about it."
"Jess, Dr. Russell told me that you won't tell anyone what happened, you need to so they can catch the person who did this." Said Reese gently.
"I don't want to remember it." Said Jessica putting her head in her hands. "It hurts to much."
"I know, but you have to tell the police, will you?"
"Yes." Said Jessica finally.
"Okay, I know you can do it Jess." He said squeezing her hand. "I'll come right back when they are done.
Reese left and then Eve went in and when she was done Sam and another officer went in too.
"Jessica, you have to tell us everything you remember so we can find out who did this to you." Said Sam sitting in the chair beside her bed.
"I don't remember much. I was at my special place by the beach and I fell asleep. I woke up and it was dark and I knew I had to get home. I-I was uh walking." She said trying to compose herself. "I was walking and then someone put a hand over my mouth and I fell to the ground, He-he was uh wearing a ski mask, it was black or dark blue. He-I tried to scream, I really did, I kicked him. I tried so hard to get away but he started banging my head against the ground and he wouldn't stop, I think I passed out."
"Jessica, this is very important, did he say anything, anything at all?"
"Yes." Whispered Jessica.
"What did he say?"
"He-he called me..umm..Jessie and told me it would only hurt a little-" Jessica had to stop as she put her head in her hands. After a few minutes she continued. "He tore of my clothes and told me I had made him mad and then that's when he cut me…it hurt so much, I thought he was going to kill me..."
Sam had tears in his eyes and he quickly wiped them away, he had to be strong for his little girl. "Do you have any idea who could have done this?"
Jessica bit her lower lip, "I-I think it was this guy at my school, he always calls me Jessie and he's…touched me before." Said Jessica meekly.
"What's his name?"
"Robert Oaks." Said Jessica in a whisper.