The Comfort of No one

Chapter Six: Cassandra

Chapter Six: Cassandra
Cassandra was a beautiful fifteen year old Cape Verdean girl with long dark curly hair. Her teeth were perfectly straight, her nails were always done, and she wore the most expensive clothes in town. Everyone loved Cassandra, who couldn't? She was a very nice person and on top of that she was gorgeous. All of the guys wanted to be with her and everyone wanted to be her friend. Everyone wished they could be her and live her "perfect" life.
Cassandra's life was going perfect until that Friday night she decided to go out with her friends to find alcohol. Cassandra's friend Sabrina came up with the idea to get drunk that night. Cassandra's friends Riley and Peyton loved the idea of getting wasted on a Friday night. Cassandra agreed with them and thought it would be fun. It was 8:00 o'clock at night when they all decided to walk around to find someone to get alcohol. By 8:40, they finally found someone willing to give them alcohol. The man told them his name was Andrew Johnson and that he would love to give them alcohol so they could enjoy their night. The girls could tell that Andrew was a heroin addict by how skinny he was and the lack of hygiene he had. They didn't care that Andrew was high on heroin as long as they got their alcohol.
Andrew's house was very small and it looked like he hadn't cleaned the house in years. When the girls entered his house, he told them to sit on the couch and he would bring the bottle of vodka out to them after he blocked the door with his dresser. The girls felt a little scared and confused at first but when they started to drink the vodka, they started to ease up a little bit. At 11:00 o'clock, the bottle of vodka was gone and the girls were all wasted. Andrew told Cassandra that he wanted to show her something in the other room and that her friends should stay on the couch. Cassandra was so drunk that she didn't think anything of it and she followed Andrew to his room.
When they got to Andrews room Cassandra said "okay so what do you need to show me."
"It's over here" Andrew said
Cassandra stumbled her way to where Andrew was telling her to go and fell on his bed. Andrew then grabbed Cassandra and tied her to his bed really tight. Cassandra started to scream on the top of her lungs saying "what the fuck are you doing? Stop that!" Andrew put tape over her mouth so nobody could hear her scream. He then proceeded to rape her violently as she laid there tied up crying. After ten minutes Cassandras friends went in Andrew's room to see if he was done showing her what he had to show her.
The girls walked in on Andrew raping Cassandra and freaked out. Riley called the cops and Andrew jumped off of Cassandra. He then chased the girls, trying to grab them but he only got a hold of Sabrina. Riley and Peyton jumped out of the window that was left open and ran as fast as they could. When they saw the cops driving over to them they panicked. Riley called the cops to save Cassandra but she forgot that her and her friends were all drinking underage.
After the girls explained to the cops what was going on, the cops told the girls to go in the cop car and to wait there while they went to go get the other girls in Andrew's house. The cops busted the door open and walked in on Andrew tying up Sabrina and Cassandra crying with her pants on the other side of the room. The cops told Andrew to put his hands up and to stop tying the underage girl. He listened to them and one of the cops put hand cuffs on him. The other cop untied the girls and walked them to the cop car that had Riley and Peyton inside. Andrew went into the other cop car that didn't have the girls inside and the cops drove off to the police station.
All of the girl's parents were called to be informed of the situation and were told that they needed to come to the station to pick them up. Andrew was charged for rape and for giving underage girls alcohol. He became a registered sex offender and was facing 5 and half years of jail time for raping Cassandra and even longer for giving the underage girls the alcohol and for having heroin in his household.
Cassandra's story was all over the news on TV and in the newspaper. Everyone was talking about the Four drunken underage girls and the 15 year old Cassandra Rodriguez, Raped by 33 year old Andrew Johnson. Nobody could look at Cassandra the same way and they didn't wish to be her anymore. Not many guys wanted her and not many people wanted to be her friend anymore. Some people bullied her saying she wanted to have sex with that guy because she was drunk. They called her a "whore" "skank" "alcoholic." Some people felt bad for her and others thought it was all her fault and that she deserved it. Sabrina, Riley, and Peyton stopped being Cassandra's friend because they were afraid to get bullied with her. Cassandra soon got depressed and had to get home schooled by her mother. No matter what school she wanted to attend there were people against her or with her. She shut herself out from the outside world and that "beautiful fifteen year old Cape Verdean girl with long dark curly hair" that everyone wanted to be, slowly became nothing but a depressed, unwanted teenage girl. That one Friday night changed Cassandra's whole life around and she realized no matter how small a situation starts off to be it can turn into something big and change your entire life drastically and you'll never forget the damage it caused you.