Animals (sequel out)

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"Caroline" I groan feeling a hand roam through my tangled hair. "Caroline" I jump up and hug her and just start bawling.

"Hey it's okay" she slowly rocks me and wraps her arms around me. "It's okay"

I bury my face in her chest and curl up around her.

"Do you want to go back to my house, maybe take a bath watch a movie and eat dinner?" She hums in my ear.f

"Yeah" my voice slightly cracks.
"Okay" She strokes my hair and then helps me up and almost tucks me under her arm.

"Thank you"Caroline whispers to Elena and she nods.

Caroline holds me against her and we walked out the door together.

We didn't talk the whole entire way out well until we got into the car.

"Hey" she says almost breathily and looks over at me.

I don't answer I just tuck my legs to my chest
///TW S/A aftermath//////Read when you're in a good place////////
"Do we need to go to the hospital, the police, do you want to pick up something from the school, do you want to call your aunts or uncles, do you want to talk to Emma, or is there m we need to do?" Caroline tightens her hands on the steering wheel.

I just start crying into my knees

"Hope do we need to go to the hospital?"She repeats.

"No" my voice catches as I wipe my eyes.

"Do you not need to or not want to" she ask turning her whole body to me.

"Don't need to"I whisper.

"Okay" she puts the car into drive and drives a couple houses down into her driveway.

When we get to the house I practically jump out of the car and run into the house and throw myself on the couch.

Caroline moves our food over to the couch and sets it on the coffee table and sits next to me and scoops me up in her arms "I was so worried about you hope." She holds me tightly.

"I'm okay" I inhale her perfume.

She tucks strands of my hair behind my ear " I've only seen you cry thrice in my life" she seems to look through me.

"Once when you were little and the kids wouldn't let you play with them, then at your father's funeral. Then you were crying when you called me..." she finally makes eye contact with me. "What happened to you Hope?"

"I don't want to talk about it" tears start streaming down my cheeks again.

"Hope I need to know what happened then you never have to tell anyone ever again. I need to know if I need to call the police or how I can support you or-"

"I wasn't raped Caroline" I yell at her tearfully with a lump in my throat.

"Okay" she says in almost a whisper "What happened?"she says softly

"I thought I was okay I was nervous but I was at a hotel with him and I've shared a room with him before so no big deal," I choke on my tears "He was touching me and he was being nice and I didn't want to be rude" I choke more trying not to look at Caroline. " He just like jumped on me and took my shirt off, he's seen me naked before but this time instead of just being uncomfortable and unsafe I felt like he was actually going to do it this time" I cry into my palms. " So I ran into the bathroom and he just started banging on the door and I was so scared I thought he was going to break it down" I try to muffle my cries.

Caroline scoops me further into her arms and holds me like she hasn't seen me in years and she rocks me back and forth in efforts to soothe me.

"I was so scared" I cry into her ear.

"I know I know" she keeps rocking me and even starts crying herself.

"Please don't leave" I blurt out but I mean it I can't be left alone with Alaric at least not for now.

"I won't I promise"she puts her pinky out and I link mine with hers.