A/N Another dark chapter, sorry! Feel free to skip halfway, but things get better and the rapist does get his just desserts, I give you my word! Onwards...

Chapter 19 Lollipop girl

Raven;

I tried to keep it secret, I really did but some things are way outta my control. So a little after half past four, Iziah heard the shocking news, another little girl was taken into an alley and raped, a lollipop shoved into her hands as she was sent on her way home. After she heard the news I wasn't surprised that she flew to her cupboard and refused to come out. I spent hours outside her door, pleading with her to let me in, Harmoni and Jamie looking on worriedly, when you went through the dramas that we had, when one got hurt, we all got hurt, right now Izzy was hurting in the worst kind of way and all we wanted was to help. There are just somethings that won't stay buried, no matter how hard you try. Dad flew in about half nine, we were still camping outside her door, listening to her breathe harshly, trying not to cry.

"I just heard the news,"

"Who hasn't" Harmoni muttered darkly, like us she was still majorly pissed that this asshole hadn't been caught. When he stopped his rape spree six years ago, they just decided that he was finally gone and every little girl could breathe easy again. If they had done their fucking jobs in the first place, little Emma, who lived right across the street from us, might of been spared.

"Izzy" Shawn tapped on the door, "Sweetheart you need to come out"

"Fuck off!" Izzy yelled, she was safe here, she didn't want to go out where he could easily get her again. "I'm not comin out until he is dead and his head is mounted on the wall for everyone to see!"

"Just leave her Dad, I'll stay here with her."

"Will she be ok?" Shawn asked trying not to flick an obvious eye at Harmoni, if one of his girls tried self harming, then he wouldn't put it past another one.

"Yeah, I've taken everything out that she could use to hurt herself,"

Dad left us, there wasn't much he could do. He made calls to my uncle Hunter, Hunter had little girls of his own, so of course Dad wanted to warn him. Hunter had already heard, in this small town, who hadn't heard about poor Emma.

Izzy;

I knew Rae was still there, I could hear her breathing, the pencil she used to do her homework scratching across the page. I lay on my bed and stared up at the stairs indent. All I could see was that horrible moment, I didn't want to think it, but it just played and played. It haunted me, there were times when it woke me up and I couldn't get back to sleep. I'm sleepin better these days, at least until I heard about Emma, now I just knew that sleep was going to be in snatches. I let out a sigh, I know what people thought, I was the heartless bitch that didn't care about anyone outside of my girls, so surely the rape of Emma would make no never mind to me right? Wrong. No child deserves to go through that, thanks to him, her life and her childhood was gone. I should know, I was his last victim before he disappeared.

I was twelve and my parents, like most parents, saw no issue with me walking home by myself. After all this was Tocurra, nothing bad happened here, sure the lollipop rapist was lurking about, but so far he was sticking to the main cities, a small town like this one was too dangerous and boring, apparently not. I took the usual route home, down the cracked pavement, past the corner store and down a few blocks. He grabbed me by my black hair and pulled me into the alley. His hand clamped over my mouth, I tried to squirm free, tried to bite him, but he was a fully grown man and I was merely a twelve year old child. He whispered in my ear that he wasn't going to hurt me as his hands pulled up my dress, he lied. Because all I felt was blind pain as he shoved himself inside me, I cried and screamed, anything to stop the pain. He finally let me go, his fingers trailing over my face, then I felt the burning pain again but from my butt, he was doing it again, pushing and searing inside me. I never thought it would end. He let me go and gave me two lollipops, he shoved me out and told me I was a really good girl. I was alot of things at that point, rape victim, victim number thirteen, the oldest victim at twelve, the only girl in this God forsaken town to be a victim of that asshole, and the only victim to get two lollipops, because I was the only one to be raped twice. News and media only named the victim as the lollipop girl, that was me but thankfully no one knew that, I wanted it kept that way. Somehow I knew that wasn't gonna happen, Emma's rape would pull back to me, I could only hope it would be easier this time around, I knew it wouldn't. They said it got easier, but it never got easier, if anything it only got harder.

"Izzy?"

"I'm still here" I got out, all I could think of was Emma and me, years apart but now we had something in common, both of us had been tainted and ruined, well I'm making a silent promise, to me but to her as well, when I find this prick and I assure you I will, well he's gonna regret the day his parents ever met.