Chapter 42 Raven's tale

Randy's POV

Its strange how things can so fast without you realising it, before I knew it we were back on our weekend and without realising I was now living with Raven. I didn't realise it until I was at the gym and I thought about going home, it was her home I considered my home now. I noticed over the going weeks she had become distant and hard to get through too, I put it down to her twin being in hospital. Iziah had come home a few days ago and was told to take it easy, according to her sister she wouldn't be doing that anytime soon.

"Are you ok?" I asked concerned, we had just finished dinner but I noticed she didn't eat much, she just picked at it.

She gave me a small smile but didn't say anything.

"Raven you can tell me if anything is wrong" I sat beside her and pulled her into my arms, for some reason she burst into tears and hugged me tight.

"I have to tell you something but I don't think I can"

"You can tell me anything Rae"

Sighing she pulled away and looked at me "Just promise me you won't react like Chase, I don't think I can go through that again"

"I give you my word I won't react like Chase"

Raven let out a sigh picking up her hot chocolate, now I knew something was wrong because Raven usually opted for coffee, tonight she had hot chocolate with marshmellows.

"I guess it all starts with baseball" Raven began putting her cup down and looking at me, I waited in silence as she picked up the courage to tell me the rest of the story. "About four years ago I left the garage I was working at and took up a job at my old high school as a coach for their baseball team, I loved baseball and I wanted my team to love it as much as I did. I was there a month before they found out"

"Who?"

"Ted and Cody" Raven let out a sigh before going on "I ran into them before it happened, I wound up breaking Cody's nose because he slapped me on the ass, he told me I would pay for that and I would pay for everything I had done to them, I thought nothing of it. A week later I was walking home from practice, it was strange because I was offered a ride from one of my team mates, everyday I wish I had accepted. Just as I made it halfway home I felt a stinging pain in the back of my head and I fell unconsious. When I woke up I was in a dark room half naked and tied to a bed with leather straps. I screamed and screamed but no one came. At last someone came in. Ted and Cody. They said that today was the day I payed for everything I had done. They started hitting me with everything and anything, whips, chains even my own bat. The more I screamed the more they hit me, I prayed that I would black out from the pain but as it turns out I have a high thresh hold for pain and I was awake throughout all of it. When they were done with my front and it was nothing more than a bloody mess they rolled me over and started on my back, everywhere had to be marked apparently. All I could smell was my own blood pouring from my body, after a while beating me wasn't enough. They both stopped and looked at me and I stupidly thought they were done and they would leave me there to die. Suddenly I felt Cody's hands in my shorts" She stopped for a moment, obviously remembering the bad memory, sniffing she went on. "Cody was first, pulling my hair and scratching my body like it was just some rough sex game we played, Teddy kept hitting me in the face telling me I was a little slut because I was actually enjoying what they were doing to me, when Cody was done Teddy had his turn and so it went like that. When they couldn't do it anymore they went back to hitting me until they could do it again. I think it lasted roughly four hours, I lost track of time after a while, I just kept wishing I would die. I had lost hope of someone coming to find me, it was obvious no one was coming. When they had got their point across they dressed me and dumped me on my front lawn. I could barely move and I just knew that if someone didn't come out I would die. Hunter and Izzy found me and got me to the hospital. For hours on end I just cried because it was all I could do. Iziah finally got it out of me and when I told her I had never seen her get so angry. A few days later I discharged myself from the hospital and went home, Dad was still away at work and there was no way in hell I was going to tell him what happened, he already had one heart attack I didn't want him having another. Ever since that day I just couldn't bring myself to play baseball, it just reminded me of what they did to me. A couple of days after the attack a police woman came to the door, for a moment I thought she was going to tell me they had arrested Ted and Cody for what they did instead they arrested Izzy for assult with a deadly weapon and she was sent to prison. After a while I began to heal and I met Chase"

She gave another sigh before going on "In the beginning he was just like you in a way, sweet, gentle and very patient. He respected the fact that I didn't like to be touched and soon enough I found myself falling in love with him even though he found his sex elsewhere I still loved him. Then I made a mistake, a big one. I told him what they did to me and suddenly I saw the disgust in his brown eyes, I thought that maybe he would just leave me and I would be alone. Instead what he did was much worse. He got angry at me and punched me in the face, calling me a whore. And again I found myself being raped for something that wasn't my fault. Sadly Iziah didn't catch up with him and he got away with it. I just became distant with everyone and I didn't once dare try and find another partner, it would only end in pain that was until I met you, I couldn't help but like you but in the back of my head I just kept thinking that you would end up being like Chase thats why I tried so hard not to fall for you or tell you anything" Raven wiped her eyes and took a long drink. No wonder she hated to be touched, everytime she was touched it was just another rape or beating. It all fell into place, why Iziah and Hunter were so over protective of her, all those scars on her body were because of Ted and Cody and she would never be able to escape what they did because it would be on her body forever.

"Randy?" She whispered softly, her eyes pleading with me not to hate her or feel disgust. It was alot to take in and for a while I didn't say anything because it was hard trying to find the words. What exactly do you say to something like that?

"Please say something" Raven pleaded again, more tears spilling from her eyes. In the blink of an eye I saw red as it all sunk in and hit my very soul. Getting up I walked straight out the door, in my mind I was going to finish what Izzy started.

Raven could only wrap herself up in her blanket and cry, she knew she shouldn't of told him, now just like Chase, he was disgusted that she had let herself be raped repeatedly. Again she was alone and broken.