Dear diary,
Something bad happened. It started out so nice but then shit hit the fan.
Angela, Bella, and I went dress shopping in Port Angeles before all the good dresses for swiped out. At first it was awkward but that ended Angela and I got Bella to try on a dress. It was a simple periwinkle dress, it was a bit showy for her but she looked stunning in it. She gasped when she saw her reflection, in that moment the weird vibe she projected broke and she smiled so bright and oddly.
She tried to give advice on dresses, bless her heart, but she truly lacked all the feminine touch a teen our age should have. This only made Bella's abrupt leave less surprising, she's a jittery like one. Though I'm happy she tried.
After she left me and Angela paid for the dresses and went to our favorite restaurant the one with great rice lemon soup, surprising considering it's a Italian restaurant. We joked about this weird guy with sideburns, legit sideburns!
After we waited two hours we ordered our food and left. On our way out we saw Bella slumped at the bottom on the stairs. She was a mess. Her hair was a jungle of knots, twigs and broken strands, her face was scratched up, dirty and bleeding. Her eyes, her almond brown eyes that usually caught the light just right were so empty, she looked so small. She had blood everywhere and she was crying.
Immediately I started to call the police while Angela, bless her heart, tried to comfort Bella, she was in another world. I had just hung up when I heard Bella screaming for help. All Angela did was try to touch her hair and- it was then when I realized Bella was raped. The white on her face and blood on her pants.
I anxiously waited behind Angela while she tried to bring Bella back to us, by time she did the police arrived.
She dropped her purse and surged forward to Angela. They hugged and cried together, I couldn't hold myself back the prickly tears in my eyes surgered and I found myself confronting the police whilst the two started to stand, a metal clang called my attention away and I saw Bella's purse had fallen and spilled it contents revealing pepper spray, a broken phone and a book.
He attacked her outside a bookstore? Why hadn't the owners helped?
I don't know how to help Bella but I hope the police do. Me and Angela helped Bella into the back of an ambulance whilst the police started talking to each other and finally came to confront us.
The female officer asked Bella questions, some seemed too harsh, touching victim-blaming harsh, rage burned in my chest, a fire I never felt before especially when she started asking what she was wearing and did she at any point smile. I let my fury be known, only Angela's hand on my wrist stopped me from doing something worse than giving the police the 5th degree.
The male partner stopped the bitch, Rebecca, and sent her to their car. The male office, Jonas, was much more considerate and softer. When they were done they called another squad to check out the scene and left us.
I told Bella and Angela I would met them at the hospital and I would drive the car. I didn't want us to be stuck at the hospital once she got released.
Goodbye Diary,
I have to go.