A/N: Sorry it's so short! And remember what I said about reviews! How does it make you feel!

So, after much anticipation on your part, and many small struggles on my part, I finally present to you this chapter!


The next few hours seemed like a blur of congratulating Cece, talking to cops about what happened, and finally, gloriously, Danny was arrested, and put on the state's sex offenders list.

She broke up with

him as the carried

him away to juvie.

(He couldn't go to

regular prison because

he was a minor)

He yelled violent words and empty threats after her as he went. Her and Cece took a break from Shake It Up! Chicago for a while, spending the rest of their summer vacation in Cece's apartment with their families and Deuce.

Both were dreading

the day when school

started, and students

asked the fateful question

"What did you do this summer?"

She doesn't tell Deuce about abuse or the rape. Maybe it's because she doesn't want him to think of her as weak. Or maybe it's just because she's not ready to let him in.

She trusted Danny,

and look what he

had done to her.

She wasn't ready to

trust another guy.

Maybe she never would.

He had scarred her, left her jaded and suspicious when it came to love. How could she ever trust again? How could she ever love again?

Would she ever

be the same? Or

was this apprehensive,

fearful girl here to stay?

She told him she had broken up with him after what he had tried to do to Cece.

Which wasn't a lie.

Simply because it appalled her that he would do something like that.

Also not a lie,

but not the whole truth,

either.

He held her hand when she cried, or when nightmares of him plagued her dreams. When she told him about what she had said about her, about how he called her a lesbian, about how he said she was stupid, ugly and worthless, he threatened to beat him up.

She laughed and

reminded him that

Cece had beaten

him to it.

She hasn't laughed in a long time.

It feels good.


Only the Epilogue, to be uploaded tomorrow, left! Eeeeeekk!

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