Not Your Expectation (#Wattys2015)

24. Secret is Out

I looked at Adam. Could I trust him? Could I trust him after all what has happened to me after I trusted the wrong person?

I took in a deep breath.

"You don't have to tell me if you're not comfortable with it." said Adam. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked."

I shook my head "No, it's okay. You'll get to know it eventually, so what's wrong if I tell it now? It's better you hear this from me than hearing it from someone else." I paused for a while to collect my thoughts. "Kayla was my best friend since I was in diapers, that's because her family and mine were pretty close. She was like a sister to me, I would say I was closer to her than I ever was with Jenna. I would share all my secrets with her and she would do the same until..." I trailed as an onslaught of horrible memories attacked me.

Adam looked at me, understanding in his eyes "You can tell me later Lisa."

I shook my head. I wanted to be stronger for once. I wanted to be able to speak about it without feeling scared, without getting another panic attack. It happened almost 6 years ago and why am I still held captive by my insecurities? Why can't I still let out?

"No Adam, I want to be stronger for once. I don't want this thing to keep haunting me forever." I told him and I started to tell him the whole truth. I told him all about what happened at the beginning of my high school life.

Flashback

"Please please let me  go ."

"What are you doing? Please, leave me alone."

"Who are you? Why are you doing this to me?"

Pain and fear were coursing through my veins. I tried to move away from the prying hands.  But every time I took a step backward, the masked man would take a step forward. It went on until my back hit the wall. I heard evil laughter.

"You're trapped now."  He said, his voice sending chills down my spine.

His hands were all over me. I tried to scream, to bite, to kick but he was never deterred.

His hands roamed around me, making me recoil in disgust. My brain blocked whatever was happening, but I knew his touch was wrong.

But when I realized that he was going to take this one notch further, I kicked him in the balls , hard. And when he fell down in intense pain, I didn't hesitate in stepping hard on his manhood causing him more pain and eliciting blood curdling scream. I bent down and punched his nose hard, my knuckles cracked and I guess his nose broke from the blood gushing from it.

I didn't waste a second before I snatched my phone from his pocket and ran away. I had  5% charge and used it to call the only person I was comfortable in sharing everything with, Kayla.

"That day, I called Kayla and she managed to come over with her aunt who was cool with everything. I was taken to her aunt's place and I spilled everything to Kayla." I broke off, sobs racking my body.

Adam who had come over to my side, halfway through the story, put his arms around me and hugged me. "Shssssshhhh, you don't have to continue it now. Everything's fine darling."

I hugged him back tightly and continued "I trusted her to keep this a secret and 3 days later, I find pictures of this assault all over the place. On facebook, on school noticeboard everywhere. There were freaking flyers calling me a slut! Everyone got to know about it. Kayla came over to me that day and handed me a flyer with a smirk. I confronted her later in the parking lot and she spilled the truth. She had hired that guy. That guy was someone who liked her and she was using him to get stuff done. I asked her why she did it and she said she was simply jealous of me and didn't like me at all. I was voted as Class Rep to the student parliament and she didn't like it. Some guy Kayla liked, liked me. It infuriated her, Kayla managed to destroy my name, character and reputation. I was a cast-away. No one liked me. Even my parents felt like I was a disgrace. Only Jenna, Luke, Kylie and Sally stood by me. This is why I don't trust people easily. I trusted once and my life was ruined."

Adam's grip tightened around me. "Don't you worry anymore. I won't let anyone ruin your life anymore. I can't believe this happened to you. You're so strong. So strong Lisa!"

I shook my head "I am not strong. I am broken but I just keep a façade on and keep going forward. Sally, Kylie, Luke and Jenna really helped me through everything."

"I'm proud of your friends and I'm proud of the bond between you, your sister and your sister's boyfriend. Think positive. If that incident never happened, you'd never find out who your true friends were and would have forever been cheated into believing a fake friend." Adam said pulling back and looking at me.

I smiled at that. True, some bad incidents in life have good outcomes. What Adam said was true.

"Well, let's go now shall we? We are getting late." I said, smiling up at Adam.

Adam ruffled my hair "Sure."

I scowled at him, "Let me go wash my face, I must be looking like some weirdo with puffed up face and eyes."

"You look beautiful anyway, my darling Lisa." Adam said, looking dreamy eyed.

"You might be blind in love, but not everyone is." I laughed as I lightly punched his arm and got up to go towards the restrooms.

Hey Readers,

Sorry for taking such a long break. I was having writer's block, I didn't know how to put this chapter out properly. But after constant motivation from one of my readers (userxxxxxx- I'm sorry the number doesn't stick in my head), I decided to give this a go and here it is!

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