Chapter One

Today was the day. The day that Carla Connor would find out if the evil monster that raped her would go down or not.

His name was Frank. Frank Foster. The night before their wedding he had viciously raped Carla when she told him she couldn't marry him.

But the truth was that Carla was secretly in love with a dark haired bookie called Peter Barlow. She had been for the past year but he kept on pushing her away. Telling her he didn't love her. Then one night after Carla's attack, Peter finally declared his love for her and ever since they had been having an affair. But there was only one problem, Peter was married to Leanne and had a son, Simon from a previous relationship.

Carla made her way to the court with Maria and Michelle. Frank had already previously tried to attack Maria.

"You okay, hun?" Michelle asked.

"Petrified." Carla replied.

"Everything will be ok." Michelle said.

Carla tried to smile and just then Peter and Leanne walked over. Peter gave Carla one of 'that' looks. Carla and Leanne used to be friends but drifted apart when Leanne found out about Carla's crush on Peter but she came along anyway for support for Carla.

"It'll be ok, he's going to do down" Leanne said to Carla as she was called into Court Room 5. Little did Leanne know what would actually happen inside the court…