Chapter 14: Betrayal

Nessie's POV

Nessie I knew you were going to get raped that night. I had a vision of it happening a few hours before it actually happened. And I purposely kept that information to myself. I knew what was going to happen and I did nothing to stop it.

It took a full moment for my aunt's words to fully sink in. She knew that I was going to get raped. She had a vision of me getting raped. She did nothing to stop it? Why? Why would she do this to me?

"Nessie are you okay?" she asked me. That seemed to ignite my anger. How on Earth could she expect me to be okay after what she just told me?

"Okay? Okay? Alice how on the hell do you expect me to be okay after what you just told me?! No I'm not okay! I am anything but okay right now! Why would you do this to me?! Why would you allow this to happen me?! Why didn't you warn my family so they could stop them?! Why?!" I was crying by the end of my rant but I wasn't sure if it was because of anger, sadness, or betrayal. I never would have expected my aunt to do something like this.

"Nessie the reason that I didn't say anything is because if I had told your father or even your mother they would have killed the men. I could not allow them to become murders"

"So you rather they rape me instead?! You would rather I deal with the emotional trauma and on top of that a pregnancy instead!? You would rather allow them to hurt me?! How is that in any way fair? I couldn't care less if those men had died. They're rapists! What use are they to society!? Not to mention the fact that they are still out there possibly hurting other women!"

"Nessie I didn't want your family to turn into killers" she said. Attempting to defend herself.

"So couldn't you do something to stop it then?! I mean if you really wanted those men to live so badly then why didn't you at least come to warn me ahead of time?! Why couldn't you yourself do something to stop the rape from happening?!"

I was so happy that we were alone right now because I couldn't stop myself from shouting. Alice stayed silent. Clearly she hadn't thought of that before. Did I really matter so little to my aunt?

"Nessie I'm so sorry" she said.

"Save it" I said. "It's clear to me that you really don't care about me"

"Nessie how can you say that? You're my niece I love you!"

"Your actions tell me differently. You're not my favorite aunt anymore" I cried.

I ran away in the opposite direction crying the whole way.

"Alice just leave me alone" I called back when I realized that she was following me.

"Nessie we need to talk" she said.

"About what?!" I shouted. "You've already said enough! I do not want to hear anymore now leave me alone!"

I kept running and I didn't even bother to look back. All I could do was cry. I had never felt so angry, sad, and betrayed before. I never would have thought that my aunt would do something like that. I thought she loved me. I thought she cared about me. Clearly I didn't matter to her as much as I thought that I did. Because if she did she would have done something to stop those men from raping me. She would have valued me more then the lives of those beasts that raped me that night.

I ran until I couldn't run anymore. I sat down on a bench and I cried. Tears of anger and tears of sadness. My aunt's words rang through my mind over and over again as if on repeat.

I only stopped crying when I felt a pair of ice cold arms wrap around my body.

"Nessie what happened?" my father asked me. He wiped my tears away as they fell and kissed my forehead. There was something about his presence that I found to be very soothing.

"Nessie please tell me what happened? Why are you crying so much?" he asked me again when I failed to answer the first time.

"Alice told me everything" was all that I could say. I let him see exactly what happened in my mind.

My father just hugged me close and rubbed my back soothingly.

"It's okay Nessie. Cry. Just let it out. Everything is going to be okay" he said.

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