ROSES & THORNES

Three months later

My life had taken an unexpected turn for the worse a few months back. I'd been pushed to the brink, to the point where I thougt I could never amount to anything. I was broken and beaten down into a fetal position. It was a time where I thought I was worthless. I thought that no one was worth anything to someone if they continued to hurt them time after time.

But I had been wrong. The entire of time, I had circle of people who cared for and respected me. I was worth so much to them to the point that I was priceless. I had been broken, yes, but it made me stronger. Of course it took time for me to heal from my pains, and even now I wasn't fully there. But I was learning. Everyday I was learning to stand taller, love more, and be stronger. I had a family, friends, and boyfriend who loved and adored me, and no one would ever be able to tell me other wise.

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Trevor, just like I'd thought, really had been sick. He suffered from Disorganized Schizophrenia. A disorder that came on slowly but surely. Although it is genetically linked, it developed during childhood, but later came out head on in the late teens. Something usually set it off, sending the victim sometimes out of control and making them violent.

Trevor was going to be tried in court, but as a person with disabilities. He was also getting the help that he needed. Knowing this I'd been able to cope with what he'd done to me, and move on.

My parents had me on a constant watch, even with my mother's growing belly. They felt responsible for what had happend to me, they thought that they should have known. At every waking moment they catered to me. They'd even given in to the car ordeal. Since they'd brought a new one that was more suitable, they gave me the keys to the camry for keeps. As a whole, we were all still healing from what had happend to me.

Kim had to be the most schocking though. There had been a reason for her distaste for Trevor from the very begining. I thought it had been a crush, but it had been entirely something else. The reason why she'd known straight away to what Trevor was doing to me was because she'd been through the same thing with him once upon a time. She wanted to tell me before hand, but she didn't know how, or even if she should.

It started freshman year. She was knew that year too. Her parents had sent her to live with her aunt after she'd gotten pregnant. Back then Trevor had been a Sophomore. He'd been going back and forth between his uncle and brandparents at the time. They'd started dating shortly after meeting. Things were just fine for about three months, then things started going down hill from there.

Right after she'd opened up to him about being four moths pregnant, he'd mistakend it for being his kid. He didn't know that she had already been carrying the child when they met. The sad part about was that he'd thought she'd cheated and gotten pregnant. It was nothing of the such, but that didn't stop him from beating her. It'd gotten so bad at one point that she'd lost her baby due to stress and physical injuries.

The scar he had above his brow was from a fight that they'd gotten into when she'd finally fought back, something I would have never done. He came clean to his grandparents after experiencing an episode. They'd sent him back to the east coast for a while. He'd just returned this year.

Kim never told anyone that he'd abused her to, but throughout my healing process, she'd began to heal along with me. She still had a long wat to go, but she was getting better everyday.

As for Jeb and I, we were in love. There wasn't a time of day that I wasn't thinking about him. His beauty, as well as his kisses, never failed to take my breath away. Our bond was stronger then ever, and no, not because of sex, we were saving that milestone for prom night, but because we learned that as long as we had each other, nothing else matterd. Not even Serena. She'd finally realized that even though she won a few battles, she'd lost the war.

Jeb was my one and only. And as long as I had something to do with it, there'd never be another.