Summer in the City

Chapter 5

A knock on the door made Seth jump up to answer it. He reached for the handle and he smiled at the people at the door.

"Hello, Mr. Cohen. I'm Officer Dawson and this is my partner Officer Parks. We are here to ask some questions about Ms. Roberts attack this morning. Could you please get her for us." The short balding man asked politely.

"Hello. Sure. I'll get her, one second. She's just resting." Seth rambled. He couldn't think of anything besides her attacker since they got home that morning.

"That's quite understandable. We could come back at another time if she doesn't want to be bothered." He took his hat off and tucked it into his pants pocket.

"No, no. She's expecting you. I think she just wants to get everything done with so she can relax."

"I understand."

"Come in please." He motioned to the couch and both officers nodded.

"Thank you Mr. Cohen." The other man Officer Parks said, walking into the room after Officer Dawson.

"I'll be right back." Seth rambled, going into Summer's and his room.

"Hey, Summer. You wake?" Seth asked, sitting on the side of the bed and moving his hand softly over where her skin wasn't bruised.

"Huh? What time is it?" She yawned and sat up.

"I'm not sure but there are two officers in the other room who would like to talk to you about you know…" Seth said quietly.

"Oh. Okay. Will you come with me?" Her voice quivered.

"Of course. Whatever you want I'm here for you."

"Okay." She got up out of bed and touched her forehead and grimaced. "Does it look that bad?" She asked.

"No. I bet it hurts more."

"That's comforting." She sighed. "Show time, huh?"

"Only if you want. They could leave and come back later if you want."

"No, no. Now is fine. I was being sarcastic. I thought you of all people would know when someone was sarcastic or not."

"Right." He returned. Why was Summer so calm?

"Come Cohen. Lead the way."

"Okay. Follow me." He said goofily as he opened up the bedroom door. The two men who already took their seats on the couch stood up as she entered.

"Hello Ms. Roberts. I'm so sorry for your unfortunate incident. I'm Officer Dawson."

"And I'm Officer Parks. Again we are truly sorry. We try hard to keep these kinds of people of the streets but you know how it goes." Summer nodded and sat on the couch opposite to the officers and Seth joined her.

"We're here just to get some basic information. I know Office Matthews already talked to you for a long time at the hospital but we're here to ask you what the man looked like."

"Oh ok. I can't tell you much." Summer began in a brave voice.

"As much as you can. Can you start from the beginning? It usually helps people to remember more but if it's too painful for you too talk about that's fine."

"I'll try my best. I was walking Coco earlier than normal today around 5:50ish and the wind was really bothering me so I walked down a dark alley as a shortcut. I really hate wind and all I wanted was too get out of it." Summer sighed. "Coco didn't want to go but I tugged her leash and I dragged her down the alley."

"Is this Coco?" The man asked pointing to the Chocolate Lab. Summer and Seth both

nodded. "Okay, continue."

"So then I heard a noise and all of a sudden this man jumps out. I couldn't see his face at all at first but I saw a shiny object that I realized was a knife. I freaked out and he rammed me against the wall and I tired to scream. I really did."

"We believe you." Officer Parks said as he noticed her getting more tense as he revealed her story. Seth tightened his grip on her waist and pulled her into a side-hug.

"But then he put his hand over my mouth and he slammed me against and I fought him and I bit his hand. He screamed and then he hit me. I saw his face a little bit. He had a piercing in his eyebrow."

"Which eyebrow?"

"Right."

"Okay."

"Then he kept hitting me. And then we reached her my belt and he was messing with my shirt. I realized he was trying to rape me." She paused and shook her head as if remembering something.

"Can we stop?" She asked suddenly.

"Of course but if you can we'd like for you to continue. The more info we have on him the more likely we can catch him and lock him up." Officer Parks responded.

"I don't want to talk anymore. I'm sorry." Summer got up and walked into her bedroom.

"I'm sorry officers. I'm going to see her. You can let yourself out when you are ready."

Seth mumbled and walked into where Summer was.

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"Hey mom." Seth said, on the phone. Summer wasn't in the mood to talk so he decided it was for the best to go and call his parents for advice.

"Hey honey! We haven't talked to you for a long time. We were wondering if you had disappeared or something." His mother exclaimed on the phone happily.

"No mom. You must be remembering your dreams." He joked not really in the mood for it.

"Ha ha. Did you want to talk to me or your dad?" She asked, walking into the kitchen.

"You first."

"Okay Sweetie. Is everything okay over there in New York?"

"I think New York caught up with us." Seth said quietly.

"What do you mean? Is something wrong?" Her voice turned nervous and she didn't know what was going on. "Are you okay? Is Summer okay?"

"I'm fine mom." Seth sighed.

"And Summer?"

"Well, that's the thing, I need to talk to you about. Something bad happened this morning. Really bad."

"Seth stop stalling. Tell you mother what happened. Oh god is she pregnant?"

"No Summer's not pregnant. I wish she was."

"Seth Ezekiel. Tell me."

"She was mugged."

"Oh my God." Kirsten Exclaimed.

"And she was almost raped and murdered but luckily she got away."

"Thank god. Is she at the hospital?" Kirsten gasped. Summer was like her daughter. They shared everything together. Since Summer hadn't had a mom and Kirsten didn't have a daughter they fit together perfectly.

"No. She was released and she's okay except with some bruising and stuff but mom, I have no clue what to do. She's not talking to me about it and she wants to take care of it all by herself."

"This is really traumatic for her. She's always dealt with stuff by herself like when her mother ran away or when her father was killed. She's used to dealing with it by herself. So my advice is to let her be and wait for her to come to you. Don't get me wrong, always let her know that you are 100 percent behind her but don't push her okay."

"Thanks mom."

"Your welcome. Would you like to talk to your dad now?"

"Nah, if your advice doesn't work I'll call him tomorrow."

"Okay sweetie. You know that we love you and tell Summer that we support her and love her."

"Okay mom. I love you."

"Bye." He hung up the phone and looked at the bedroom door. He hoped that would work.

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Summer tossed and turned in her bed as she slept; little beads of sweat were on her forehead and she was having a nightmare.

She stared at the mugger with hatred and boldness in her eyes as he attacked her in the alley.

"Get off of me!" She screamed. The man looked up again and smiled at her as he ripped her jeans off her body.

"I told you Daddy. Get off of me! Daddy!" Her vision flashed to her old purple bedroom in Newport when she was 15.

"Come on baby. Shh."

"Daddy!" She screamed. "Daddy, please get off of me. Daddy!"

TBC

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