the tape.

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TW : R#PE FLASHBACKS / MENTION

Ashley woke up to her alarm ringing through her ears. Somehow she had ended up back in bryce's bed. Nora didn't want either of them in the house so she must be gone.

Bryce groaned as he gripped onto her waist, kissing down her shoulder as she turned the alarm off. "bryce we have to get up" Ashley stated. "five more minutes", he mumbled to her, keeping his grip tight and her body closer.

After a few minutes Ashley was already doing her makeup although she knew she would cry it all off. She wore a black strapless dress and a blazer, her hair curled too. "I'm sorry about yesterday, I think we were all upset" bryce mentioned, reffering to their fight. Ash just carried on getting ready, then putting on her Lipstick.

Around an hour later they would be sitting in the court room. Each girl asked one by one what he had done to them. It was now Ashley's turn.

"miss knight, it is stated here that bryce walked asulted you. Is that correct?" the lawyer asked as ash nodded her head. "but he is also your boyfriend?" she asked. "yes" ash bluntly replied.
The question got objected for relevance but then passed as they went deeper into the case.

"Ashley do you know the day you were raped by bryce walker" the lawyer asked. "yes, April 12th 2020" Ashley answered definitively, trying to keep her tears away as she watched bryce. The both torn up by eachother.

"can you tell the court what you remember from that night?" she asked. Ashley felt as if she had been punched, right in the stomach as the butterflies she felt weren't butterflies at all. They were monsters that clawed her from the inside out. Like a dark past she can't erase.

//Tw//

*flashback*

" shhh ash" she heard Bryce's voice echo through her head, her ears ringing as she felt the grip around her hips.

"please stop" she murmured, unable to string a sentence as she slurred. She opened her eyes to see bryce. To then see monty taking the Polaroid picture of the both, ash slipped out of consciousness as she held onto bryce. "it's okay darling" the word darling bringing pity as all she ever wanted him to do was stop.

As soon as he had finished she felt the marks that ran over her body. They stayed for weeks after.
She managed to stand herself up as bryce dressed her, she threw her arms around him as she knew what he had done.

Ashley cried into his arms because she couldn't believe what he had done. He picked her up 'bridal style' as he carried her out the clubhouse, sobbing in his arms.

She remembers when he put her in the car, putting her seat belt on and watching bryce sit in the drivers seat. He looked at he in the back seat as he sobbed for her.

Bryce realised what he had done and hated himself for it, the two sobbed as he drove her home. To his home.
She passed out as soon as he they got to the pool house.

//

"bryce pushed me down, he told me it was okay and he raped me." Ashley choked, not wanting to get into the story as she was already sobbing at the stand. A list of other girls told their stories as Ashley stood and knew the monster he has become.

After the trial was ruled out, bryce was on full house arrest. He couldn't leave, not even for school.
He had to stay in the pool house as Nora wouldn't let him in the main house, part of his probation was that he couldn't see any of the girls he had done things too. He was a dangerous man.
But that included Ashley. Yet she denied, she would find a way.