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The Rain Washes Away All Guilt

A/N: Hey everyone! I'm glad you're all reading this story of mine! I'd like to let everyone know that I'm posting chapters 13 and 14 at the same time for those of you out there cough cough who feel the songs aren't enough story. So...since Chapter 13 was the last song...I'm posting this one! No songs in this chapter! Well...I hope you all enjoy reading The Rain Washes Away All Guilt...and thank you so much to all the people reading this story now! -Peace-

Chapter 14: Much Worse

Previously
-Aelita found Yumi in the back of the gym. She was smiling as she walked over and noticed the same joy on Yumi's face.
-"...I guess, we'll leave with Rooftops by Lostprophets!"
-The song ended almost abruptly.
-The band left the stage and Emilie came on.
-"Let's hear it once more for Dangerous Work!"

The crowd cheered and Emilie clapped. By this point, the Rodees were removing the band's equipment from the stage. "Alright. We're going to get back to our live and personal DJs...first we have Matthieu!"

-----6:16pm Saturday + With Dangerous Work-----
Matthieu walked out on stage and began to scratch some pretty wicked beats.

The band members were still behind the stage.

"Great job guys! Thank you so much!" Emily praised them, still running around the wings, ordering people to do there jobs.

"You guys go have a great time...sorry to pull you away." Any one of the band members would have told her something to the effect of 'No problem' or 'It's cool' but she was way to busy, so they walked back to the main floor of the gym, the same way they got to being backstage.

-----6:16pm Saturday + With...everyone else...-----
"Alright." Aelita, who had been hanging out with Yumi and Sam, just informed them that her and Jeremie were going to go dance.

Upon Aelita's departure, Sam turned to Yumi and asked a question that was undoubtedly on both their minds, "Does Jeremie even know how to dance?" They stood there looking skeptical before bursting into histerical laughter.

Just then, Odd came over to the two and hugged Sam around the waist from behind. "So...What'd you think?"

"It was awesome!" Sam and Yumi ironically said in unison.

"Oh, Yumi, Ulrich's back talking to Matthias. He said it'd just be a minute."

"Alright."

"Let's go!" Odd said grabbing Sam's left hand within his right and twirling her around.

"See ya, Yumi!" Sam said as Odd and her made their way to the dancefloor.

Yumi smiled. They'd been together for so long and, aside from the natural arguement here and there, stayed incredible happy.

Maybe that's how Ulrich and I will be? God I hope so.

"What are you doin' back here all alone?" An oh too familiar voice said behind Yumi. She didn't need to turn around to see who said it, though she did turn around to be polite.

"What do you want, William?"

"A dance."

"You know I'm here with Ulrich, he said he'd be back in a minute."

"Yeah, right. That dirtbag probably ditched you for someone else." The words seemed to offend Yumi, but...at the same time, the fear rose inside her.

What if he did? What if I was just a side dish? Maybe he was just messing with me? What if it was all a joke? A cruel joke...

"Come on. Just one dance. That's it. Then you can dance the night away with that degrading piece of scum."

"No...I'm sorry...It wouldn't be right." Next thing Yumi knew, William had grabbed her right hand with his left and pulled her close to him. He'd wrapped his right arm round her back. She couldn't move. The smell of cologn, uselessly attempting to cover the stench of cigarette smoke, raded her nostrals.

"WILLIAM, STOP IT." She tried to pull away.

No one could hear her yell at him over the music.

William intertwined his fingers with hers and moved his face in on hers. Their lips met, and as hard as she tried, Yumi couldn't pull away.

He finally pulled away from her and let her go. Yumi was disgusted. And next thing William knew, Yumi's fist made direct contact with his nose. He drew back and grabbed his nose, now bleeding. He dropped to his knees.

Yumi bent down to his level and spoke viciously to him, "Touch me again, and things will get worse. Much worse."

She rose up again. No one seemed to notice the incident...except for...