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Chapter 12: Why Is This Happening?

Rory had nightmares all night luckily for her she didn't wake up screaming. Overall she had gotten maybe three hours of sleep out of fear that Max would come back for her.

'At least it won't happen again' Rory thought to herself as she tried to get back to sleep.

Rory eventually looked at the clock and it said nine so she decided to get out of bed.

Rory walked out of her room relived to find only Lorelai out there. She may have not trusted her mother but at least she couldn't rape her.

"So how was the dinner last night?" Rory asked trying to act normal and move on with her life.

"It was fine, what did Paris call you about last night?" Lorelai asked.

'Paris didn't call, but she's probably testing me' Rory thought.

"Just some stuff about the paper that couldn't wait" Rory replied a little above a whisper.

"Well that sucks, I'll be home in a couple of hours" Lorelai said.

"Where are you going?" Rory asked.

"I have to go and help Michel with some of the guests" Lorelai said.

"See you soon" Rory said.

"Good bye and I love you" Lorelai said walking out of the house.

Rory didn't respond to her she just went into the kitchen to grab some Pop-Tarts.

When she walked into the kitchen she found Max waiting for her.

"What do you want?" Rory asked a little angry.

"I just wanted to see how you were doing" Max said.

"Didn't you do enough last night?" Rory asked.

"Don't worry I used a condom" Max said as he started touching her hair.

"That's good" Rory said trying to get away from him.

"The more you disobey the better the chance for a repeat performance" Max said.

"I'll be good" Rory said in a small voice as she made her breakfast.

A few hours later Lorelai came home to find Rory in her room.

"So how are you doing?" Lorelai asked.

"I've been better" Rory said honestly.

"So are we watching Godfather 3 tonight?" Lorelai asked.

"That sounds fine" Rory said with no emotion in her voice.

"What's wrong?" Lorelai asked.

"Nothing's wrong" Rory said.

"Something is wrong the other day you were all excited about the Godfather and now it seems like you could care less" Lorelai said.

"It's nothing I just couldn't sleep" Rory said.

"Really?" Lorelai asked.

"Yes" Rory said.

Lorelai took a close look at Rory and she really didn't look like she hadn't slept well.

"Alright, are we still on for Godfather 3?" Lorelai asked.

"Yeah, I can't wait" Rory said trying to sound happy.

That night things were going better they were watching the Godfather. After the movie was over Rory went to bed.

"I'm going to check up on Rory" Max said to Lorelai.

"Yeah, sure" Lorelai said half asleep.

Max went over to Rory's room and found that she had forgotten to lock the door.

Max watched Rory in her restless sleep and smiled.

"Don't worry we'll have some more fun another time" Max said to Rory in her sleep.

Rory woke up the next morning after getting almost no sleep; she could swear that Max was talking to her in her sleep.

Rory decided that moping around wouldn't do any good today. She needed something to get her mind off of the rape. So she went over to Lane's.

"Hello, Mrs. Kim is Lane here?" Rory asked.

"Yes, she's upstairs" Mrs. Kim said.

Rory walked up the stairs and found Lane sitting in her room.

"Hey" Rory said.

"Hey" Lane said back.

"So how are you doing?" Rory asked.

"I'm doing fine" Lane said nervously.

"What's with all the nervousness?" Rory asked.

"It's nothing" Lane said.

"Come on tell me" Rory said.

"It's just that Dean's dating someone" Lane said.

Rory just shrugged.

"That's it you date him and then you don't care that he's over you?" Lane asked.

"He was too controlling and I didn't need that right now" Rory said.

"Are you o.k.?" Lane asked out of the blue.

"Why does everyone keep asking me that" Rory stated.

"Because you seem off" Lane said.

"I'm just having a bad day" Rory defended.

"Try a couple of bad months" Lane said.

"What do you mean?" Rory asked.

"I mean that you don't seem like yourself anymore, you did for a while but now you look really bad again" Lane said.

"Don't worry about it Lane, Paris is just putting me under a lot of stress" Rory said.

"Are you sure there's nothing you want to talk about?" Lane asked.

'I should tell her' Rory thought for a second but quickly dismissed the idea.

"I'm sure" Rory said firmly.

"Well fine but if there is anything you would like to talk to me about just say something" Lane said.

After that Lane didn't press the issue anymore and Rory was thankful. After a half an hour Mrs. Kim came up and shooed Rory away.

Rory was walking home when she saw Jess part of her wanted to talk to her but she knew that she couldn't.

Rory went home and found Max waiting for her.

"How was your day?" Max asked.

"It was fine" Rory said.

"Who did you talk to?" Max asked.

"I just saw Lane" Rory said truthfully.

"Good" Max said.

"Is that it?" Rory asked.

"That's it" Max said.

Rory sighed with relief and went to her room for some privacy.

Rory tried to lie down for a little while but she felt dirty again so she went to take a shower.

Rory turned up the water as hot as it would go and scrubbed her skin until it was tender. She stayed in the shower for 45 minutes.

When Rory finally did get out of the shower and get dressed she was greeted by Lorelai.

"What's up with you?" Lorelai asked.

"What do you mean?" Rory asked.

"I mean the 45 minute shower" Lorelai said.

"So I was very dirty" Rory said.

"But still a 45 minute shower" Lorelai said.

"I was really dirty" Rory said getting a little nervous that she would be hit for wasting water.

"I'm just worried about you, it's not just the shower, and you're not yourself anymore" Lorelai said.

"Mom please its just stress" Rory said.

"Fine but if you don't seem better in two weeks we are taking you to the doctor" Lorelai said.

"Fine" Rory said.

Later that night Max came to talk to Rory.

"Your mom said that she might take you to the doctor" Max said.

"Don't worry I promise I'll act normal" Rory said pleading with him.

Then without warning Max slapped her.

"You better" Max said walking off.

Rory started to cry again, 'Why is this happening to me, what did I do?' Rory asked herself as she cried herself to sleep.

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