BONUS CHAPTER! I will still be posting tomorrow. Today it snowed so everything was canceled. Enjoy.

Chapter 8

When I woke up for the second time, I looked up to see a sleeping Ty. He looked so peaceful. I was in a happy state of mind until I remember what happened to me last night. I heard a creak at the door. As if by reflex, I started to try and wake Ty. He immediately sat up more.

'Charlie are you okay? What's wrong?'

'Yeah, I just heard a sound. I just kinda reacted and woke you up.' He hugged me tighter. I would have cried by there weren't any tears coming out.

'Would you like some food?'

'Yeah, pineapple.' He laughed at that, he knew my favorite foods. Pineapple was my favorite for breakfast.

'Would you be okay going down to breakfast?' I was worried that Luke might be there, but most of the guests would have gone home after the attack.

'Sure.' We both quickly got dressed and made our way to the dining hall. We were late so when we got there everybody looked at us as we walked in. I clutched onto Ty's arm for support. My dad ran over to us, he took me from Ty, which felt like a weird separation, he held me tight in a hug. I finally had tears again, so I just cried into my dad's arms. He rubbed my back to comfort me.

'Bean, are you okay?'

'I will be Dad, I will be.' He let go and Ty took me. Ty led me to my seat. I wanted pineapple, so Ty put some on my plate. I slowly poked at it with my fork and took a few bites. Ty grabbed my hand, I looked at him, he gave me a sad smile and squeezed my hand.

Not everyone knew what had happened last night. The royals were gone, except for Ty and Bella, of course and Cass. I knew that I would be talking with her later. Eli and Bella seemed annoyed to be out of the loop. Eli bugged Mom to tell him what had happened.

'Not right now' She said.

After breakfast, Matt and Ty each took a side of me. I could feel the Selecteds' stares on me. Not all death stares, for taking Matt's attention, but I could feel that some were genuine. They would not be told what had happened to me, unless I decided I would want them to know. They would not know, maybe the princess, but not the Selected.

My mom told me that she would take over the lesson for the day. I was grateful, all I wanted to do was spend the day in my savior's arms. I knew that I would spend some time with Cass. She told Andrew to go home, and that she needed girl time with her best friend.

I spent the morning with Ty in my room. He just held me. We talked a little bit. But I didn't want to talk that much. Ty knows what happened. Not every detail. But I would be talking to Cass and I wanted to save the little voice I had left for her.

Ty ordered lunch in my room. After I went to the Women's room to meet Cass. Once I walked through the door, the room went silent. Cass ran over to me and gave me a big hug. The girls stared at me. Valerie's eyes were scared and were filled with worry.

Cass seemed to notice the girls looking,

'Come on, let's go to my room.' She grabbed my hand and we started towards her room.

'So you want to tell me what happened. Don't hold back, I know that Luke is an ass.'

'Well, I was at the ball, I uh left,' I looked down, hoping she would not ask about why I left. I took a deep breath to continue. 'I walked down the hall. I heard somebody stumble behind me. When I checked it was Luke, he was obviously drunk… he started to walk towards me, I had turned around and continued walking. He said hello and called me sweecheeks. I felt his cold arms wrap around me. I told him to get off, but he didn't. He then said I like it, I didn't. He turned me around and I was pushed against the wall. I told him again, nothing. He started to suck on my neck and I struggled to get away. His hand grabbed my ass. I was so scared' I started to cry at this point. Cass wrapped her arms around me. She pulled away and in her eyes I could tell that she wanted me to continue, so I did. 'I… I was so scared, I closed my eyes. And that's when Ty came. He picked me up and took me away.' I finished there.

'Oh, Charlie, you didn't deserve that.' I choked a sob.

'What made you leave in the first place?' That's the one thing I didn't want her to ask. I looked down.

'Come on, what was it? I know that it wasn't you being tired, you last for years at balls.' I didn't answer.

'I'm your second best friend, you can tell me. Me and Ty are here for you. And -'

'That's the problem.' I cut her off. I needed to, I couldn't say it.

'What? Ty?' I just lowered my head farther.

'Yeah, I sat down to take a quick break. I looked up and saw him with one of the Selected. I felt something in the pit of my stomach.' I wrapped my arms around my midsection. 'I don't know, I just felt strange, I needed to get out of there.'

I looked up to see Cass with a grin on her face. It confused me.

'What?' That just made her grin farther.

'Charlie, you don't see it.?' I shook my head and she laughed.'You like Ty, you are just now realizing it.' I tried processing what she had said.

I couldn't like him. He was my best friend.

'Come on, say you haven't noticed how sexy he has gotten.'

'Maybe.' Oh no, I do like him. 'No, I can't like him.'

'Why not?'

'This could ruin our friendship.'

'No, everyone can see you like each other.' I looked at her in disbelief.

'Ty doesn't like me, he made that clear.'

'Sweetie, you were asleep, but during the attack, you never left his arms. He is by you 24/7.'

'What does this mean? What do I do?'

'You do what you think you should. We all knew this was going to happen, now we just let it happen.'

With that I left, I needed to think this over.

At dinner, I kept quiet. I didn't know what to do with the new found feelings for Ty. Ty must have noticed me being weird,

'Charlie, you okay? You are acting strange.'

'I'm okay, I'm still upset about the whole… yeah' I knew he would know what I meant. And he did, Ty grabbed my hand and squeezed it.

'I'm here for you.' Ty hand stayed on mine. I wanted to change the subject. I looked to Matt.

'So have any of the girls asked to go home'

'Yeah, but they were all ones that I had been planning to eliminate so no hard feelings.' He shrugged.

That was fast. So far the rest of dinner.

I couldn't think of anything to do that didn't involve Ty. So after dinner, I just went to bed. I knew that the next day I would be avoiding Ty and trying to spend more time with Valerie. I had a feeling that Matt would be picking her, and hopefully he would.

'So Matt is good with kids?' I was trying to help Val, or Valerie. It was a good distraction to talk to her.

'Of course, Eli was his favorite person. Even though he has secretly always liked me better.' I flipped my hair back. That made Val and I laugh. Val calmed down and became serious.

'What happened to you the other day? We could all tell that you were upset. And Prince Tyler would not leave your side.' I wasn't planning on telling the girls, but I had a feeling that Val was going to be here awhile. So I leaned in and whispered quietly,

'Somebody tried to go farther with me than is allowed by the law… against my will.' I looked down, embarrassed.

'Oh, Charlie' She wrapped her arms around me. I let her call me Charlie, but none of the other girls can.

'Do you like Matt?' I was genuinely wondering this.

'Yeah,' She said shyly, biting her lip. 'I think I'm falling for him' I probably had the largest grin ever because of the change of subject

'Good because…'I leaned in close.'I want you to win.' It was her turn to grin.

'I would love to have you as a sister...if Matthew chooses me.'

'Come on, we have food to eat.' I grabbed her hand and dragged her towards the dining hall.

The second I walked into the hall, Ty was talking to a Selected, the one I saw him dancing with at the ball. I think her name is Laura Moore from Tammins. My stomach dropped.

'You know what Val, I'm gonna be right back.'

Charlie has finally realized her feelings for Ty! Yay! I know that you guys have been waiting for this. Where did Charlie go?

~cari