When Rose Petals Fall

Chapter 3

Before the rape Elena could never figure out what was worse than a nightmare until her memories proved to her that they could be a lot worse. It had all started as soon as her head had hit her pillow that night. One moment she was in her black sweet bliss and than she was in her own personal nightmare.

The night had started off like any other night, she was at a party like every other Friday night just drinking and having a few good laughs with a couple of close friends before someone in the corner caught her eye. She had never seen him before at school and something about him seemed to intrigue her more than the boys at her own school.

"Who are you gawking at?" her friend Caroline asked as another person came by with s round of shots.

She took one as Caroline downed hers. Caroline loved getting plastered while Elena loved to take her drinking slow. There was no real reason to rush Liv's parties usually lasted all night and she loved revealing in it. As well as quite a few guys.

"Not that it's any of your business, but there's this new guy over there and I may or may not be intrigued."

Caroline looked at the guy and smiled.

"That's Kai, He's Liv's older brother. From what I heard he's back from college for a little while."

"What for? Isn't it like the middle of the semester for them?"

Caroline shrugged as if she couldn't;'t care less about why he wasn't in school. Elena had to admit that it did make him more intriguing. And this year she had promised to be fearless, so after handing her drink to Caroline she walked over to the guy giving him her world famous Elena Gilbert smile. Luckily he seemed intrigued by it.

"Hi I noticed you over there and I realized that we haven't met before. I'm Elena Gilbert."

"Hi Elena, I'm Kai."

He shook her hand while she gave him a small laugh. She knew it was very cliché but she didn't care she really wanted to make an impression on this guy. And it seemed like it was working one minute they were talking and having a nice time and than the next minute they were upstairs in a room kissing. She had to admit that he was a good kisser but something was amiss. He seemed a little too perfect.

Elena stopped the kiss and chuckled slightly as his lips moved down to her neck. She had no idea what he was thinking about doing, but sex was the last thing on her mind right now.

"I should probably get going." she said stepping away. There was something off in the atmosphere.

"Seriously. You can't go right now. We were just getting to the fun part."

"Well I have to go make sure my friend is okay."

Elena tried to leave but he just shoved her further into the wall. Shit. How was she going to get out of this one.

"I'm pretty sure she can handle herself." He said giving her a kiss only she didn't find it as thrilling as she did the first time.

"Come on. I just want to leave. I don't want to right now."

"Are you fucking kidding me? Why the fuck did you come with me up to my bedroom anyway?"

"I just wanted to make out for a while. I didn;t want anything more than that. What do you take me for a slut who just gives it away to anyone. "

"Could have fooled me."

Before she knew exactly what she was doing she slapped him across the face. She expected to react differently but instead of just calling her a bitch like guys usually did he punched her in the mouth making her split blood but that wasn't all that he did. She cried and begged for the next thirty minutes as he violated her every which way that he could. He was relentless and cruel and all she did was cry but no one ever heard her. No one was coming to her rescue.

When it was all over and he had left she laid there crying thinking about what had happened to her. She didn't want to admit it to herself, but it did happen and she had to get out of there so taking a deep breath she got out of the house and made her way home hoping no one would see her.

Elena awakened with a sharp intake of breath as tears streamed down her face. The memories of him poured through her as she clawed at her skin. She grabbed the nearest object and threw it to the wall as she slightly screamed into her pillow wishing that this would all be over.