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Chapter 17: The party

I got jumbled up into a crowd of unfamiliar people but I soon grew to like them all and they grew to like me as well. I had a couple drinks for the first time in forever and I was actually enjoying myself without any worries or concerns. I was happy.

I dispersed myself from the group to walk over to the couch where Ace, Nolan, Slater, and Chase all sat. With my drink in hand I made my way to the couch and made myself known to the boys, "Well hello there, looking mighty fine." I slurred a couple of my words but I was still sober enough to know my surroundings and not do anything to dumb.

"You've definitely had a lot to drink." Ace spatted out towards me, "Only 3 drinks." I smiled towards him as I stood tall in front of a brunette girl sitting next to Slater, "Move."

She stared blankly at me for a second before responding, "No, I'm comfortable where I'm at." I rolled my eyes as I seen Ace readjust himself to watch what was going to happen next. I decided to be persistent, "I said, move."

She rolled her eyes, "Just leave me be, god your fat." She smacked her gum after that.

I laughed at her response, "Ya you know if you ran as much as your mouth did maybe you'd be skinny but hey! What do I know. Now, move." I demanded, she sat up and threw a punch towards my face. Held my face for a split second before I decided to take this moment to show nothing of what she just did affected me. So I brushed past her snd went and sat down in her spot next to Slater, smiling towards her. She rolled her eyes and walked outside.

All eyes from everyone on the couch were on me, "what?" I smiled and shrugged taking another sip of my drink, "That was hot." Slater commented, I smirked at his response. "Trust me I could do way hotter stuff." I reached for his hand placing it on my thigh. He readjusted himself and let out a big sigh before looking towards Ace, and making eye signals to each other which I somewhat picked up on.

A couple minuets later another one of aces friends came and dabbed him up, sitting down and reaching in his pocket to pull out some white powdery stuff in a small bag. "What's that?" I asked becoming more aware of what was happening.

"Coke." The boy smirked as he used a card to spread it into lines on the table. Aces friend took the first line then Ace himself was the second to take a line of it, followed Chase, then Nolan, and finally Slater. I looked around the group as there was one line left of Coke, since o was letting loose tonight and actually having fun, I got down on my knees and leaned on the coffee table grabbing the rolled up money from the boys hand, taking in the line of Coke.

I had never done anything like this so it was new to me, I sniffed and coughed slightly afterwards, feeling all eyes fall on me as they all hyped me up not expecting me to do such a thing. "Damn Remi! You've changed since Junior high and high school." Ace remarked chuckling.

I sat up smiling proudly, "I wanna go swim." I exclaimed, locking eyes with Slater, "Oh this is going to be fun." Nolan chimes in, noticing me locking eyes with Slater. I stood up pulling my dress off revealing my swimming suit underneath, I threw it to the side of the room on an ottoman knowing I'd grab it later, followed by me removing my heels. I threw them with my dress as I reached for Slaters hand dragging him upstairs.

We got a couple cheers as others thought something else was going down, "Go outside and look towards the roof!" I called out guiding Slater upstairs knowing he was staring at my entire body the whole time.

"Where are we going?" He questioned.

"Shush lover boy." I responded looking over my shoulder squeezing his hand.

We walked up another small flight of stairs till we reached the rooftop patio where we were a far drop from the pool layed below us. I smiled at Slater, "Wanna jump?" He looked at me like I was crazy, then his face was filled with happy energy. Ace and all of his friends cheered us on grabbing more peoples attention.

He placed his hands on the back side of my legs and and on my back, lifting me up and holding me bridal style. He looked at me for a quick minute, "Ready?" With that I nodded and he took a big leap, making me scream.

Water flooded my body and I felt his arms hold me tighter next to him as we both resurfaced grasping for air while laughing uncontrollably.

I released myself from his grasp and climbed over to the ladder, wringing out my hair.

I headed for the kitchen to grab another drink when I felt hands glide their way around my waist and up my stomach feeling cold rings come in contact with my bar skin, thinking it was Ace or Slater, I smiled turning around to notice it was the boy who brought that coke, "What are you doing?!" I practically yelled, as his grip on my waist got tighter, and my ability to move became less and less available. "C'mon don't fight it." He remarked with that same psychotic look Ryan had given me right before...

I had gotten serious PTSD from his grip on my waist, and I could tell what his antics were, "c'mon pretty mama, you don't kiss and tell now do you?" I felt a tear slip from my eyes as I tasted the saltiness, "Get off of me!!" I screamed trying to wiggle free, he tried lifting me up off of the ground, when Ace came to the rescue with his group of boys.

The next thing I knew Slaters fist came in contact with his face and knocked him to the ground as his grip on my came free and I fell backwards in a stumble, with Ace running the catch me.

The tears started flowing and I started stuttering out why it was so traumatizing for me, "I-it was l-like R-ryan all over again! H-he...was g-gonna, do stuff!!" I cried in between words as I felt Ace pull me close to his chest.

Another pair of arms wrapped around me, I pulled back to reveal Slater comforting me, "Hey! Look it's ok I made him leave, we wouldn't have let him do anything to you." Slater tried to calm me.

I nodded as Ace let him comfort me, "C'mon boys let's get her upstairs." Ace ushered the boys, Slater lifted me into his arms and carried me the short distance up the stairs to my room.

Ace opened my door, slater carried me in, and Nolan and Chase followed behind making sure the boy wasn't here still and wouldn't follow. Slater layed me down on the bed and pulled the duvet back allowing me to slip under them. I looked over the four boys standing in front of me, "Thank you...I don't think you guys understand how traumatic that actually was for me."

"Don't worry about it, think of us as your protectors now. We won't let anything bad happen to you." Chase reassured me as they all chimed in.

They all started to head towards the door, "Slater?" I stopped him and he turned and nodded. I moved over in the bed and offered for him to lay next to me, he told the boys he was going to stay with me, then made his way next to me.

He layed down next to me holding me close to him as comfort where I was still shaking from the PTSD, "10 months ago I was raped by my abusive ex. That's why it was so traumatic for me." I shivered at the words coming Out of my mouth where that was the first time I ever spoke about the incident to an outsider.

He held me tighter to him, "I'm so sorry that happened to you Remi, you didn't deserve to go through that."

"The only reason I'm here is because after it happened I found out I was pregnant. I had twins, one boy Raedyn, and one girl Rowyn. I put their safety at risk to many times and I left in the middle of the night and Ace brought me here so I could escape myself and think."

I hadn't actually admitted it all to myself at once, but it felt kind of good, "Well I'm glad he brought you here though." I smiled into his chest as he reassured me this was good.

I listened to the sound of his heartbeat and fell asleep to the soothing sound.
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Word count: 1518

My fingers hurt but I can't stop writing!! I've had serious writer's block and now I'm flowing! I changed this chapter like 5 different times but it's also good to see Remi talk about things to someone else and get comfort elsewhere. :)

Xoxo - M 💖