Secrets

Chapter 11 ~ Rachel's PoV

Cal's performance just finished. It was so emotional and he sung such a good song. As soon as he got on the stage I recognised him. He goes to my school and is in a few of my lessons. I have never talked to him before, but I have always wanted to as he is quite cute. I have heard him talking to some of his friends at school and he has a lovely, deep, manly voice. I am quite a shy girl, so never have had the courage to talk to him,  as much as I want to, I just sit there and stare.
I was daydreaming and in my own little world when a person tapped my shoulder from beside me.
"Did you like that Rachel?" Says an all too familiar voice, not a good one either.
"Uh, um yeah. He was amazing." I say my heart is racing fast, I don't want to speak to him. How did he know or even find out that I was here?
"Now, now Rachel you shouldn't be looking at other men. Definitely not him either. Don't look at him or talk to him. Otherwise there will be consequences kid. Do you understand?" He said, squeezing my arm tightly.
"Y-y-yes I-i-i understand you." I say quietly, not wanting to get heard, my arm hurting from his grip on it.
"What was that Rachel, I didn't hear you." He said, gripping even harder.
"I said, yes I understand you." I say in quite a high voice, because of the pain from his grip.
"Good. Oh and remember this is our little secret, just mine and yours. Tell anyone and bad things will happen, so don't. I will come and find you later, don't go far darling." He snarled, released my arm and walked off laughing, as if nothing had just happened.
My heart is thumping as if it wants to beat out of my chest. My arm is throbbing with pain and burning up. I feel as if I am going to be sick. I hate what he has done. I can't bear seeing him, he scares me to death. I can't tell him that or he will call me a name and hurt me even more, physically. It is as though my world is falling apart when he is around and there is nothing I can do about it.
I hear my name and almost scream, being terrified even more. I look to where I heard it. It's only Alesha, I am so relieved, I didn't want it to be him again.
"Are you okay Rachel?" Alesha says, sounding and looking concerned.
"Yes I am fine thanks," I manage to say.
"Ok, how did u find that?" Alesha says.
"Find what?" I say, I don't know what she's talking about.
"Cal's performance." She says, a puzzled sort of look on her face.
"Right. It was good I guess." I say.
"Who was that man talking to you?" Oh. She saw him, I was hoping nobody had.
"Oh er erm, no one." I stutter.
"It didn't look like no one." She certainly knows that he knows me.
"Well it was no one. I don't want to talk about it, is that ok?" I say looking at her.
"If you don't want to talk about it then I won't make you. When you're ready yeah?" She says putting her hand on my arm as if to comfort more. But I am in so much pain that I wince and cry.
"What is wrong? What happened to your arm? Have you done something to it?" Alesha says sounding very worried.
"Nothing, it's nothing ok." I mutter.
"That is definitely not nothing. Can I have a look?" 
"No, I don't want to cause a fuss." I say.
Alesha then turns around to face the other judges, Simon is playing with Amanda's hair, and David is trying to hug Simon. Alesha shouts "Can I have half an hour?" They all nod at her. Alesha smiles, blows a kiss and waves goodbye.
She then turns back to me and says "Let's go to my dressing room and get this arm sorted, no fuss at all." Then takes my hand gently and we walk to her dressing room.
She sits me on the sofa.
"Can I see your arm please, Rachel?" I nod, not being able to speak. She takes my blazer off, which I wince at, as my arm is so sore, and then she gasps. There is a big, bright red mark on it and a few patches of blood.
"How the heck did you get this Rachel?" Alesha says, a look of anger clouds over her face.
"I can't say." I say to her, tears streaming down my face.
"I bet it was that man who was talking to you earlier. I saw him holding your arm. I didn't know it was this tight, otherwise I would have came, stopped him and slapped him. Now are you going to tell me, who was that man and how do you know him?" Alesha said, the anger only getting stronger.
"Can you calm down, you're scaring me, please? I can't tell you. Sorry." I say, Alesha looking feared that she scared me, now pacing around the room.
"I am so sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. I just got so angry. How could anyone hurt you!" She says with a look of guilt picturing over her face.
"Sorry." I mutter not knowing what to say.
"You don't need to be sorry, you haven't done anything wrong.When I find out who he is, he will be sorry." Alesha said calming down a bit.
"I will try and explain later, when I have calmed down and my arm is less sore. But he told me not to say anything." I say wiping my tears away.
"Of course, you can tell me when the timing is right, I hope you can trust me enough. Anyway, is now a good time to tell you why I need to talk to you?"
"Yeah I guess so, when else will we have?" I say.
"Ok just give me a few minutes to get wording right in my head." Alesha said.
Gosh, I am so nervous. What is so important that I needed to be dragged all the way out here for?
Authors note ~ Thanks for reading. Hope you liked chapter 11. Big plot twist here. Who is this man and what has he done to Rachel? The next chapter will be the reveal of Alesha's secret. The bit that you have all been waiting for. Please comment, look forward to reading them. XXX