Ellie's knees were weak as she got up from the bed and made her way out of the room. She stumbled through the crowded dance floor finally finding Jay flirting with a couple of obviously older blonde girls by the bar.

"Jay! I want to leave…Now!" Ellie yelled over the music and the conversation that he was having.

"Can't you see I'm busy?" Jay retorted turning around to see Ellie's tear stained face. "Fine." Jay answered taking one last swig of beer and turning back to the girls. "Guess it's time to leave. Call me sometime." Jay said handing the girls his number.

Once in the car Jay finally spoke "I go out of my way for you taking you to a place where I know you'd have fun and you want to leave early. No wonder Sean left you."

Ellie contemplated if she should tell him why she wanted to leave but figured he wouldn't believe her anyways. So she just sat in silence as Jay started up the car and quickly pulled out of the parking lot.

Once they got to her house Jay finally spoke again breaking the awkward silence. "Since you made me leave so early tonight I need a place to crash." Ellie nodded and they both got out of the car and continued inside the apartment. She threw her bag down on the floor next to the TV and went to find sheets from the hallway closet. Jay sat down on the couch making himself comfortable and flicked on the TV. Ellie laid some blankets next to him and without a word went into the bathroom and shut the door. About a half hour later Jay heard sobs coming from the bathroom. Normally he stayed away from crying girls but he had a gut feeling that he should go check it out. Something about the way Ellie looked at him tonight made him think it was more than just missing Sean that was bugging her.

Jay lightly tapped on the door and but there was no answer and the crying continued so he knocked again even louder and still got nothing. "Ellie are you okay in there?... I know I'd probably be the last person you'd want to talk to but I'm here if you want to." Jay said through the door refusing to give up. "Fine I'm coming in."

Once he opened the door he found Ellie on the floor crying with a blood stained towel wrapped around her arm. He wasn't totally surprised he knew about her cutting mostly through rumors around the school but a little bit from Sean too. He kneeled down on the floor next to her and took the red razor blade out of her hand and wrapped his arms around her. She was so small in his arms and he couldn't believe that this strong, creative, and beautiful girl would do this to herself. He didn't understand why she was in all this pain and there was nothing he could do besides hold her.

Ellie cried for about twenty more minutes until she was too tired to cry anymore. She kept her head resting on Jay's shoulder as he carried her to her bedroom. He laid her down on the bed and put a sheet over her legs as she laid silently in a daze. Events from earlier played over and over in her mind and she couldn't seem to find her was back to reality "Lets clean you up before you go to sleep." Jay said taking her arm and unwrapping the towel and taking off the half pulled down glove. He studied her arm in disbelief. She had numerous cuts all up and down her arm some were scabbed and almost healed but most were fresh, which scared him. He also noticed some bruises around her wrists which seemed to be out of place. He quickly cleaned and bandaged her up. "Ellie I'm going to let you go to sleep now." Jay said holding her hand as she still laid dazed and silent.

Jay went to walk away but Ellie gripped on to hi hand tightly. "Don't leave me please…" She whispered shifting her eyes so they met with Jay's.

They laid in bed together with Jay's arms still wrapped around Ellie's body. "Where did you get the bruises around both of your wrists?" He asked noticing he hit a soft spot because Ellie flinch at the question then tears started to weld up in her eyes.

"You won't believe me." Ellie said softly.

"I promise to believe you." He said truthfully. He figured anything that could cause a girl so much pain that you could see it in her eyes wouldn't lie about it.

"Tonight Josh took me into the VIP room… he…he ended up..raping me." Ellie confessed in between sobs.

Jay sat there in shock. For a moment he wanted to call her a liar, but knew she was not the first girl to accuse Josh of something like this. He was left with no words so instead he held her close to his chest, gave her a kiss on top of her head, and rocked her slowly till she fell asleep.

Once he knew he could get up with out waking her he went out to the living room, grabbed the phone, and dialed Sean.

"Hello…" A sleepy voice answered.

"Sean?" Jay asked.

"Yeah, who is this?" Sean asked back sounding annoyed that he was woken up.

"Hey man, it's Jay..."

"What the hell are you doing calling me at one in the morning?"

"Look is there anyway you could come here tonight?" Jay asked nervously.

"Dude, look whatever type of trouble you got yourself.."

"It's Ellie." Jay exclaimed cutting him off. "She needs you. And I know she needs to talk to someone and I'm no good at that."

"Can't you call Marco or someone? I mean I want to help but I just can't pick up and leave just because she needs to talk." Sean answered not realizing the urgency in Jay's voice.

"You're not listening to me! She was raped tonight. I found her on the floor in the bathroom crying with her arms all cut up and her wrists bruised." Jay said almost freaking out. "I didn't know what else to do."

"I'm leaving in five minutes. I'll be there as soon as I can." Sean said then hung up the phone before Jay could get out another word.