I felt another pair of arms encircle my waist from the oppisite direction. I did not know who the second person was until the arms pulled me violently back and I hit a body. It was Raoul. He threw me over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and ran off with me bouncing on his shoulders. He outran Erik, and no punjab went flying, probibly of fear of looping me. My last sight before seeing only trees was Erik, saddness in his eyes, as he stopped running because of fatigue. Raoul ran for what felt like a half an hour and then laid me down on the forest floor, my body crinkling the dead, brown leaves scattered all about the floor of the woods. I felt again the feeling of him ripping at my dress, a very nice dark green and brown silk dress, and beating my bare flesh, paddling my body with his hands, sticks and other things on the forest floor. He stopped and laughed at me. He was laughing at my defenselessness, and my wounds, bruses from where he had hit me. Then he slowly bared his own flesh and raped me once again. I knew that this was very pleasureable for him, always being able to take advantage of me however he wanted. He once again stopped suddenly, but this time picking up scraps of my dress and covering me to camoflage me among the leaves. Then he ran off. If I could have loathed him any more, It would be now, because of what had happend to me.
It took at least till nightfall untill Erik found me. He picked me up gently and walked with me, cradled in his arms against his chest. I felt so safe in his arms. He walked into the house and I heard Jaclyn's footsteps next to Erik talking in a barely autible wisper.
"What happened Erik? Is she okay?
"It was him again. That bastard,"
I felt a soft cotton nightgown being slipped over my shivering body. Erik carried me a short distance and placed me down in an ocean of silk bed linens. Then I felt a warm body next to meand holding me in a pair of strong arms. I knew I was in Erik's room. I fell asleep in his arms, just as the night that I tried my first step in redeeming our relationship. Exept this time, Erik was my fiance, and I had the beautiful ring on my finger to prove it.

Chapter 11
I woke up with a pair of strong arms holding me close to a hard chest. I flipped around and was looking into Erik's golden eyes. He had tears in his eyes was looking at me so longingly and lovingly that I had to kiss the tears off his face. His face was so beautiful. He hugged me closer and kissed my neck and face. There was nothing but love in his eyes. I knew that he loved me. I loved him also. I examined the ring on my finger, which sparkled in the sunlight leaking through the window. I looked at Erik. He had on loose cotton black pants, and nothing on his toned chest. I looked down me and saw a loose fitting black dress traveling to my knees amd cutting off with an embroidered hem. I then wrapped my arms around Erik and let him kiss me. He caressed my face after the long, passionate kiss. He stopped and hesitantly reached out and touched my neckline. I nodded and his warm fingers traced the neckline of the nightdress, which went down low, showing off some cleavage. He then held me close and buried his face in my hair. I fell asleep again in his arms, his warm face on my neck. I knew I loved him.

I woke up suddenly and ran into the bathroom. I threw up and Erik came in minutes later. He held my hair back as I vomited, and, as fast as it began, it ended. I was comfused. So as Naiomi was getting ready to go do the shopping, I asked her about it. She told me that she would bring me something back and was off. I hoped that I would be okay. I did not know what was happening to me.

Naiomi came home and handed me a small brown box and told me what it was and what to do with it. It was a pregnacy test. It was positive. I was so scared, so I rushed down the hall to the room that Jaclyn and Naiomi shared (Erik had offered them their own rooms, but the pair insisted upon sharing one) and told them. Jaclyn gasped and Naiomi nodded and said that was what she expected. I calmed down and asked,
"What am I going to do?"
"Well, here are your options: 1. give it up. 2. tell Erik," Jaclyn said.
"I will not kill the child!" I told them, "But how can I tell him? are you sure he will understand?" They both nodded and Jaclyn said,
"Erik is a nice man. He will understand. He knows that you got raped and you can't help it. Just tell him," so I decided that I would.