30 Days In Rehab

Day 4: Thursday

Happy friday! I'm glad you guys liked the heart theory!

"Daniel was child like." I begin, my throat becoming thick. "He was a ball of sunshine, someone that could brighten every situation and when he was down, there was no happiness. He was strong. He was strong in every sense of the word. When I was weak, he was my strength. I never saw that man being weak, until that day."

"How did you meet Daniel?" Darren questions, pushing his glasses up on his nose. "I technically met him at a strip club, at the strip club I was working at. I never spoke to him, but he was there with someone who became our friend. The first time we ever spoke was at the mall."

"Tell me about that first time." He urges.

"I had gone to the mall to unwind. I had decided that I was going to break up with my abusive boyfriend and I was feeling good about it. I had seen him and a group of his friends walking out of a jewelry store. They smiled at me and kept walking. I had stopped walking, wondering what store I was going to go in first and that's when I heard, 'On the inside she's thinking, 'all this money, and I don't know what to spend it on'.'"

"It was Daniel?"

I nod, "It was Daniel. I turned around to him and said, ' You know mind reading without permission is an invasion of privacy?' You would have thought that I had offered to buy him the world with the way began smiling. His smile was huge, it almost covered his face." I smile at the memory, "He then apologized and said that he would keep his talent to himself. I thought the small conversation was over with so I turned and walked away but I heard extra footsteps behind me and figured out that he was following. I became a bit annoyed with him and asked if I could help him with something. He smiled and told me that he wanted to spend time with me."

"With a girl that he doesn't know? Do you have any idea as to why he wanted to do that?"

I nod again, rubbing my hands together, "He later told me that it was because of what he felt towards me. He felt my 'low-key confidence' and that it made him take a second before chasing after me." Tears spring to my eyes, yearning in my heart. I miss him so much. "I let him walk with me and it was great. He put so many smiles on my face in that short amount of time that I began wondering if my boyfriend at the time ever had that ability.

"Everything sounds almost perfect so where did things go wrong?"

Where did things go wrong?

I take a deep breath, "my ex had came home when I was about to throw his clothes out. He attacked me... He raped me. I ran to what was my friend's house and found Daniel. Daniel took me in. To make a long story short, we became closer than friends and when it came down to having sex, I rejected him."

"Stop." I say, my voice weak as I hold back my tears. He doesn't hear me, too caught up in his lust. "Daniel, stop." I push his shoulder and he falls to the floor. I sit up, quickly covering myself.

My screams are echoing through my mind and I blink quickly, shutting my eyes. I stand and run past Daniel, sprinting into my room. I slam the door shut behind me.

"Why did you reject him?"

"I began having flashbacks of being raped. I wasn't ready." Darren nods, "did he understand that? How did he react?" I hang my head, rubbing my forehead, "I didn't get a chance to explain that to him before things blew up. He was angry; he thought that I didn't want him. His exact words were, 'all the niggas you see at the strip club while you being a how, compared to them, I must be ugly!' He had become insecure."