Chapter 9
It was the next day Thursday and once again Vanessa wasn't at school. We found her in the park across the street. She was crying.
"Sweetie," Jessica said.
Vanessa looked up.
"What happened?"
Vanessa took a huge deep breath.
"Adam…………….raped me."
And another one.
We sat down on the ground next to her.
"Omygod," I said.
"When?" Kate asked.
"Why?" Karen wanted to know
"What?!" Morgan yelled.
"Hey calm down yall," Jessica said.
Sierra nodded; "yeah.".
Lila hugged Vanessa.
"Last night," Vanessa answered.
"Where was everyone else?" Lacy inquired.
"Was he drunk?" Reba asked.
"It happened at 9. I don't know where everyone else was. And yes, he was drunk."
"Omygod Vanessa," Anastasia said.
"Have you told anyone?" Belle asked.
"No yall are the first. I don't know when I'm going to tell someone else, or even if."
"I understand," Miranda said.
"I went straight to the hospital which took hours for them to actually check me out. Then they actually confirmed the thing."
"Wow," Liz said.
"Yeah which is why I wasn't at school today."
Vanessa yawned.
"I'm sorry."
"It's ok," Pamela said.
"I haven't gotten really that much sleep since Thursday night."
"You need sleep Vanessa," I told her.
"Yeah ya do," Kate agreed.
"Maybe we could go to my house?" I suggested.
"Yeah," Karen said; "somewhere quiet."
"Vanessa, you can sleep there, ok?" Morgan said.
"Wha? Yeah ok."
Besides being upset, she was obviously extremely tired and extremely out of it, as anyone would be.