Anything But Ordinary ☯ Josh Hutcherson [unedited]

Chapter 5 (Part 2)

*Italics are for memories or flashbacks*

Liz's POV

- 3 years ago-

It was late Friday night when I heard the doorbell ring. Anna, our "housekeeper" had left about an hour ago so I had to walk out of my room and down the stairs to answer the door. When I opened it, Bill, my dad's best friend and business associate was standing in front of me. "Dad is not back yet" I stated nonchalantly. "May I wait for him? It's kind of important" he told me and I nodded as I stood aside to let him in. 

The worst decision I had ever made.

I struggled but his grip was too strong, so unbreakable and he was bigger than me in size. I yelled, screamed and cried out but no one came to my rescue.... I was all  alone...

After everything was over he had a satisfied grin on his face. I felt so disgusted, ashamed and dirty. I ran to the bathroom and puked. I had this horrible bile inside my mouth but that was the least of the horrors. As I lay on the bathroom floor, silently sobbing, I made myself crawl into a fetal position. Bill leaned down next to me, "If you try to tell your father, things will get even uglier so please save yourself the trouble, okay sweetie?" he warned before caressing my cheek, which made me jolt back against the bathroom wall and he smiled. "I hate you" I said quietly and his smile turned wider.

-PRESENT DAY-

Josh's POV

"So you never told your dad about it?" I asked horrified by her experience. She had watery eyes but she told the whole story in a third person's point of view and never did a tear fall.

"I did. About a month later, when I couldn't stand having to see Bill all the time in my house" she responded slowly.

"What did he do? Did he tried to kill him? Because that's what I would do" I said through gritted teeth.

"He didn't believe me. Bill has been his best friend since high school and would never do such a thing, according to my dad. After about 2 weeks of me "nagging" (as he said) he took me to the doctor, who surprise surprise, said that I wasn't a virgin anymore (I was 15 back then), but it had been too long for him to detect if it was forced or not. Then obviously my dad said that I was a slut and had sex with some poor boy, then tried to cover it so I blamed Bill. Bill responded to this with something like since my mom had died 2 years before I was just looking for attention, and that was the end of it. My father bought me an apartment in L.A. because he didn't want me to be at the house and embarrass him anymore... I would see him maybe once or twice a month. That was until 6 months ago when he got married to Jessica; I was not invited to their wedding and I have not seen him once since then" she finished telling me everything and I just sat there, speechless.

Rage boiling my blood, anger running through my body. What kind of father would treat his only daughter like that... no wonder she tried to be so tough. It's the only choice life gave her, so she could protect herself.

"I'm sorry" I told her as I put my hand on top of hers, which was on the table.

"It's okay, it was a long time ago. You kind of learn to go on... eventually" she stated and I took a deep breath, to hold myself from showing my anger.

"Would've been easier if you had some kind of support" I said softly and she looked up at me with those beautiful, sad blue eyes.

"Not always do you get what you want or what you need. It's a lesson I learned the hard way" she confessed and I squeezed her hand in sympathy.

"Well... now you have me" I replied. I hadn't thought about saying it but it just came out of my mouth and still it felt like the biggest truth I had ever said. There was no way I was going to walk away from Liz... not now and not ever. This lost soul needed hope, support and most importantly; love. And I was determined to give it to her.