P.S. Destroy

The Accident

"Last year, Ivy had a crush on a boy and he somehow found out about it. He asked Ivy to a movie and she thought it could be a good first date so she said yes. But the boy was acting a bit weird when he came to pick up Ivy for the movie, as if he'd been a bit drunk." Mum begins to explain. This will take a while.

"But he was under eighteen I guess?" Dan asks.

"Yeah, he was only one year older than me." I answer.

"He seemed drunk and later we found out he'd been on drugs too." Mum continues. "Anyway, back to the story. It was a beautiful evening so they decided to walk and while they were walking he put his hand around Ivy's waist." I felt uncomfortable remembering these things but I knew we did need to talk about them.

"He then proceeded to slid down his hand and grab my ass harassing me as we walked, in the broad daylight. He whispered suggestive things in my ear, thinking I liked it. I asked him to stop and he stopped speaking but did not let go of my butt. I asked him to let go and said it was making me uncomfortable. He eventually did let go, only to hang his arm around my neck and squeeze my boob. This time I told him immediately to let go and he did but let his arm hang where it was, hovering over my chest." I take a pause to breath

"Take all the time you need, there is no rush." Mum calms me. I nod.

"If you don't wanna talk about it, you don't have to." Dan assures me. But I shake my head.

"I feel like it's time for me to speak about this. I think it might help me and make the nightmares stop." I reply.

"Okay, take your time and continue when you feel like it." Dan says.

"So we got to the movies without any other complications. He bought the tickets and popcorn and I didn't have to pay for anything. He acted like a gentleman for a short while. Maybe a half hour into the movie I heard him yawn and he put his hand around me. I thought it was cheesy but kind of cute." Dan giggles and I look at him.

"I did that on me and my boyfriends first date and he said the exact same thing." He smiles at the memory when I shudder at my own.

"That's lovely." Mum smiles and so do I.

"Well it didn't stop there. He grabbed my boob again and this time he didn't let go when I asked him to let go. He then tried to kiss me several times but I turned my head away so he ended up kissing my cheek every time. I knew he was getting frustrated but I didn't want him to kiss me so I din't let him."

"You go girl!" Dan butts in. I smile at him and he returns my smile.

"When we left the movies I told him I was quite  tired and that I wanted to go home and after a while he agreed to it. But he said that only if he'd get to walk me home and I thought it wouldn't be any harm. Well I was wrong. When we walked past a small dark alley he grabbed my arm a bit too tightly and pushed me against the wall. He started whispering suggestive things again and I asked him to stop but he didn't. He put his hands on my chest."  Breath Ivy.

"Ivy, it's okay. Just breath." Dan took my hand and gave it a comforting squeeze.

"I told him to stop but he slapped me. He told me I owed him for the movie and the popcorn and because I hadn't let him kiss me. He was starting to get aggressive and ripped my shirt in two. I'm happy I was wearing a top underneath. I was scared as hell and didn't know what to do. But then suddenly he stopped and his eyes got a weird hazy expression. Something was sticking through his stomach and a lot of blood was oozing out of the fresh wound. I heard someone say "you're safe now, m'lady" and then I passed out. I woke up a month later from a coma-like-state when doctors were already giving up hope." The tears are running down my cheeks and I can't stop them.

"Ivy, everything is alright. You're safe. You're okay." Dan hugged me and so did mum and after a few minutes of crying the tears finally stopped.

"I still have nightmares about it every night." I sniffle.

"They will stop, I promise you. You will be okay." Dan hugged me for at least an hour as I sniffled before I calmed down enough to go to bed.