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Chapter 48

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"Ok! Is everyone ready?" Anna asked as our introduction was played and Principal Kelly gave an opening speech.

Anna and James walk out onto the stage and start to perform the famous Theres-Theres greeting. The audience laughs at all of our different skits. The environment has become more comfortable as the audience starts to adapt to the way the senior class performs. The play has been going on for about fifty minutes when the prom scene starts.

James and Bradley pretend to cause a fight and Anna runs in between and stops them. All the seniors leave the stage except for Anna and a hurt Bradley. The lights dim to announce the next skit is about to happen. Bradley walks behind the stage, but Anna remains on the stage. Bradley stops and turns around as he loudly whispers back to Anna. "Anna what are you doing? Come on."

The lights come back on and Anna stands at the center of the stage still in her prom dress. She turns away from the crowd and starts to walk closer to the edge of the stage. "What to do with my time?" She says still carrying her character, me. We had not practiced this part and no one knew what was going on. "I know! I'll go get myself a date for the night!" She walks to the other side of the stage where stairs lead down. The senior class starts to look at each other hoping that someone knows what is going on. She bends down and grabs someone off the steps. As the stranger walks into the spotlight I can see that it is the devil himself. Anna walks across the stage with Crew in her hand.

My breath stops as I see who is standing on the stage right in front of me. The person I had hoped to never see again. Logan sees who it is and starts to angrily stand-up from his chair and walk towards the entrance to the stage where the rest of the senior class is standing, watching this humiliating moment unwrap. "You'll do!" Anna says as she looks up and down Crew's body. The crowd's laughter brings a pain to my chest.

I turn to see Logan walking towards the stage entrance. I put my body in front of his to stop him from going up there. "What the hell, Theresa?" He yells hushed. I shake my head to his question. "I will kill him."

I put my hand against his chest to stop him from going any further. "Just let her finish." He looks down at me surprised.

"Theresa..." He begins.

"Seriously Logan." My once dry and happy eyes begin to gloss over, but I will not let a tear fall over this matter again.

"Hmm... Well this date was fun." Anna says has she and Crew sit down on the edge of the stage and immediately standing back up.

"Theresa, I think we should go back to my place." Crew's voice pierces my stomach like a knife. How did Anna ever find this guy? I knew Alyssa wouldn't keep this to herself.

"I don't know Crew. This night was great, but I want to go home."

"Well, I didn't ask your opinion." He angrily states to her. He grabs her wrist and pulls her in close to his body.

"Crew, let go of me. I don't want to go with you." She yells in her acting voice. He takes her hand and starts to walk her towards the end of the stage. She helplessly struggles to get away from his grasp as Haiden enters from the stairs. "Help me!" She screams.

"I will record this!" Haiden says as he pulls a phone from his back pocket. The lights go black and Haiden and Crew start to leave towards the back door of the auditorium. Anna walks back of the stage towards the watching senior class.

"What was that Anna?" Bradley asks seriously.

"I inserted an important part of the senior year." She smirked back at him. She starts to walk towards where Logan and I were standing. "Did you like my little performance? I didn't think there was enough of you in the play."

"Anna, that was out of line. Even for you!" Logan yells as the rest of the senior class starts to surround us. She ignored him and keeps her focus on me.

"What are you all looking at? The graduation scene is going to start any second." Anna yells. The rest of the senior class starts to head to the rack where the cap and gowns hang. James and Bradley stand silently waiting for the rest of the story to unfold. "Alyssa told me what had happened. I just thought it was a large milestone in your life so I incorporated it into the play. Alyssa gave me Crew's number and from there it wasn't hard to search them down."

Standing behind me, I could hear Logan stepping back. He let out a breath and looked angrily away from the both of us. "I cannot believe this, Anna. Did I really do something that bad to deserve this?" I ask angrily.

"How does it feel to have lost your virginity to a group of rapists?" She avoided my question.

"What?" I ask. It was true that I had never had sex with Luis because we agreed to wait, but I also had not had sex with the rapists at the ocean. Logan looked back over at us probably thinking the same thing I was.

"Alyssa told me about how you were dragged into the beach house and several of the fraternity guys had their way with you. At least I left that part out of the play."

"Anna, what did you do?" I ask.

"I just explained it to you." She says as she rolled her eyes.

"I never actually got rapped by those guys."

"What?" She is the one caught off guard now.

"You know, the funny thing is that I never even made it out of the alleyway to any beach house."

"Ew. That's disgusting." She said as she looked from my eyes to the rest of my body.

"No." My anger has built up too much. "Those guys never rapped me. I made it out of the alley in one piece. Those two didn't. I don't know who you heard that story from, but it wasn't Alyssa. She wouldn't make something up like that." Anna is taken back by the truth. Wherever she had gotten her information it was false and she looked shocked. She took her eyes off of me and looked up at Logan.

"Logan, I'm so sorry.I wouldn't have done it if it wasn't true."