Kiana and Trinity had been friends all their lives. She was even friends with Kiana's twin Koby. The only reason was that Kiana and Koby were very close so they did everything together. Trinity also knew all of Kiana's secrets, all but one.
Kiana told Trinity that she was out with some guy the night before. Also that she would be seeing him again soon. Kiana didn't want to lie but she had to protect herself and the ones she loved.

After school that day a Miss Tess Way-Fair was grading papers in her sun streamed classroom. It was warm out side but cool in the room due to the air conditioner. As she graded papers she remembered a moment in her life about 15 years ago. She was 10 and her parents were having one of their large parties. Everyone was there from their small town in south Jersey. The halls and rooms were decorated elegantly for an early night of fun and drinking.
The gests arrived about 5pm and most of them did not leave until 5 the next morning. There was a live band out side playing the latest songs of the early 90's. This party was not just for the 10-year-old girl; it was her 10th birthday, as well for her parents to just hang with their friends. Her parents had gotten Tess everything she wanted. A new state of the art CD Player and a few CD's. She had everything she ever wanted. She was happy.
As the party got later the smell of hard liquor was in the air, seeping from every corner of the large house. She had been sent to bed at 9:30pm, a treat for turning 10. But because of the party Tess could not get to sleep. The noise of the house raised as the more alcohol and drugs were being consumed. She lay awake for hours tossing and turning trying to fall into a slumber but couldn't. She finally went to sleep at 3 when she heard what she assumed was her mother checking up on her.
The next morning Tess woke up feeling different and blood on her and her sheets. She was franticly screaming but nothing came out. She tore the sheets and covers off of her and she ran to her bathroom as she stripped off her bloody clothes. She calmed down and looked at her self in the mirror. She expected to have been cut or some sort of tarring of the flesh, but as she looked there was noting. After about 10 minutes of looking at her 10-year-old body she got into the shower. Letting the water hit her naked self.

Tess closed her eyes. She hadn't thought about her rape for 5 years and did not know what triggered the thought. Maybe it was the papers she was grading, they were on the worst memory in your life, or it was the sun and its heat. She just didn't know. The thing she did know was that it was in the past, nothing to linger on to for too long.
Tess opened her eyes and looked at the clock on the far side of the class room. It read 4pm. She didn't think that it was that late. She felt as if it was merely a dream you wake up form that lasted hours but was only a minute.
Now with a new sense she gathered her students papers', stuffed them in her messenger bag, turning off the lights and locked her classroom up for the night.