Bruised Innocence

Chapter 8

Samon is lying on me. He is tearing up my clothes and leaving marks all over my body with his mouth. I am breathlessly trying with all my might to get my hands free from his grip.

He pulls out my trousers while keeping my hands in place with only one of his hands and again comes back to bite all over my body.

He presses one of his leg between my legs and a cry but no sound escapes my lips. I try desperately to get away but he won't leave my hands .

His body feels warm on me and he moves to my neck to make me feel even worse. He kisses me there insistently.

I already feel violated and humiliated but he doesn't stop there. He flips me over and lies hard on me.

I struggle hard to get him off me but my body doesn't move. I can't move my hands, I can't feel my legs. I am paralyzed. I get more desperate now.

I feel a panic rising within me. I cry even more shouting for help, hoping against my chances that someone will hear me scream and help me.

I keep screaming but my mouth won't open. It's stuck. It's as if it's glued to the top of my mouth. I can't find my voice. I start hyperventilating. I try again harder this time but It won't budge.

I feel dread like I had never felt before. I focus on Samon's face but it appears a bit fuzzy. How do I know that it's him? I put all my effort in screaming and my mouth opens.

"Aaaaarrgh.."I cry and cry till I can't cry anymore because my throat is hoarse. I have tears falling down my eyes and I don't even bother wiping them off. A nightmare! I console myself, it was just a nightmare.

"Mom!" I call out and it comes out more of a screech. Mom always noticed whenever I had a nightmare. She would always come to my room to comfort me till I fell asleep again. I had been crying so loudly. Why wasn't she here?

I turned on my side and Immediately became aware of the uncomfortably prickly forest floor and just on a cue, a cicada cries.

I was still in the woods. It all comes back to me. The rain, the run and the---. Sobs escape me once again. I keep sobbing there with my eyes closed and after the final sob escaped me, I groggily opened my eyes.

I find myself lying on the same muddy ground devoid of any clothes and immediately look around, afraid of finding him standing there with his cruel smirk.

It was still dark but I was fairly certain that nobody was there. He was not there. Neither was Gloise.

I was still shaken from fear due to the nightmare but there was also a sense of relief that he wasn't there. Though very quickly, it was replaced with despair when I realized that I was all alone in the middle of the woods at night.

*So, I was a bit impatient with the pace of updates because turning 300 words long chapters into a 1000 words long chapter was taking a lot of time and a lot of my ideas for the future chapters were being used to keep up the word count so I have decided to settle for 500 words long chapters for now because a lot of you have already read them all and are waiting for new chapter.

It will help me move to the last chapter faster. Please comment and review. Trust me, they are all that keep me going. It was just one comment yesterday that prompted me to wake up early and start writing this one. Updated on: 5/08/20*