The Night That Changed My Life Forever

16. Newspaper

The court hearing had been scheduled for the week from when he had gotten arrested so Basically a whole week for my nerves to be on high. I continued with my classes as conveniently we had break after that week had ended.

I got many weird looks and I'm positive people were judging me. I of course didn't do anything wrong but people like to judge other before they even know half your story. But my biggest surprise was Thursday night when me and Dylan were talking in the dorm eating dinner when we had a knock on our door. When I opened the door I was surprised to see the girl that was sitting next to Ryder when he got arrested standing there.

"Can I talk to you about Ryder?" She says with slight fear in his voice.

"Yeah that's fine, come in" I say slightly confused but wanting to hear what she had to say.

"I have spoken to a few of the other girls that he has been with this year and they all report back a similar thing, he was alway talking about you, he said that you were so pretty and so perfect. He completely ignored us when you were even in the same room." She explained.

Piecing all this together in my head along with what I knew it all made sense.

"We were all quite jealous of you actually. Then all of a sudden he stopped talking about you" she added

"When did he stop talking about me?" I asked

"About a week and a half ago" she answered

Right when he raped me, that's when he stoped talking about me.

"Would you feel comfortable talking in court?" I blurt out all of a sudden.

Both her and Dylan gave me funny looks, they started at me for a few seconds then finally the girl spoke again.

"Um..yeah sure, if Ryder gets the punishment he deserves then I'm in." She said before getting up.

"Thanks for letting us know all that" I said before letting her leave.

Me and Dylan finished our dinner and headed to bed soon after as we were leaving the next day for the court hearing on Saturday.

When I came to Friday morning me and Dylan headed to his mum's house to get settled in as we would be staying there while we had the court hearing, she also would be my "Guardian" for the hearing as they needed someone over the age of 25 to be responsible for a under 18 year old.

The car ride was interesting to say the least as I spent a lot of the time on my phone sorting out some legal business for the court hearing. I had done mega amount of research when we were back at the dorm and found that I needed lots of legal shit for this to properly go forward. Eventually I got too confused and just gave up and hoped Mrs. Hargreaves could help me.

We soon arrived and were once again greeted with her lovely smile and welcoming home. She decided to take us to dinner at a nice cafe as it was the end of the term and we had been through quite a bit.

The cafe was nice with lots of white furniture and a modern theme to everything. Once we had ordered and waited for our food I spotted a newspaper article with what looked to be Ryder on it. When I picked it up and got a better look it was Ryder with big words.

New York teenager raped fellow student

I didn't realise that the media knew about it or that it would be significant enough but the media does know everything.

We ate our food then headed back to the Hargreaves house to get a good night rest for tomorrow.