I Think I Love You [Girl×Girl]

Chapter 11

*Caseys POV*

I dont really want to, but when the last class of the day is over, I go to the flagpole in the front of the school like Ally says.

The flagpole is one of the town treasures for some odd reason. I think its because its been around for like, 100 years or something. Everyone likes to meet thier friends at the flagpole after school for some strange reason, so I have to stand amongst the throng of kids and hope Ally can see me...or maybe i hope she doesn't.

Well she eventually shows up, and by the time she does, most of the people are gone. I open my mouth to speak, but she shushes me. "Not here, lets go sit somewhere quiet."

God, why all the secrecy? But I groan and follow her about a block down from school. Theres a bench in front of ICE, the towns best loved ice cream parlor. But today its closed for renovations.

"Look," she says, "the first thing I want you to know is how sorry I am-- but you probably know that already. I...stuff has happened to me, and I wanna take this time to finally be honest with someone here."

I blink, unsure of what to say. What big surprise is she hiding this time, that shes a murderer with a foot in her backpack?

She takes a deep breath.

"I...I was raped. Not in the way you would imagine, and I dont think the court technically called it that, but it sure did feel like it." She stops for a moment, and I can feel the pain in her voice. My heart instantly softens.

"Gosh Ally, I'm really sorry. Did the dude get caught?"

"No...thats where my similarities with other sexual assault victims end. I was raped by my teacher."

"And? That happens like, all the time."

"Well, my teacher was a woman."

Whoa. I was not expecting that.

"The worst part was that she pinned it on me when she got caught, like I was some lovesick lesbian sicko or something. She lied about everything." Ally rubs at her eyes. I can tell this is a touchy subject for her, and I dont blame her.

"The media would had a field day with it," she continues. "I still see the headlines now: 'Confused Lesbian or Convinced Crazy?' If it wasnt for my dad being a lawyer, my face would have been plastered to every magazine and news channel in the state."

Now I realize that she must be the girl we had the assembly about, the girl Jerry warned me Ally might be.

She searches my eyes with her own. "I hope you could understand,Casey. Terrible things have happened to me these past few months, and i didn't feel ready to tell anyone yet."

This time its me who grabs on to her. I hold her hand tight in my own. This whole time, I was mad at the fact she had secrets, and made out with a strange girl in the back of our school, when really, those secrets were killing her, and that girl was probably her lifeline through all of this.

"Ally, its okay. Dont think Leah and your family are the only ones who back you up, because now you have me." I smile encouragingly. Now I feel like a big asshole for the way I've been treating her. I should make it up somehow, and I tell her that.

"Well," Ally says with a small smile, "My Dad will be coming home tomorrow. I want to go to the mall or something, maybe get him a gift. Can you come with?"

"Today?"

"Yeah."

I wanna say no, maybe some other time, but this is what I get for being a jerk.