Drawing Voices

Twenty Two (Taylor Swift- Not)

Dan's P.O.V

Typical Ralph. He always makes me be the speaker around his problems. Right now, I have come to a conclusion that Ralph isn't worth my friendship anymore. For once in my life I am going to let Ralph do the talking.

Lola's P.O.V

No one said anything all eyes on Dan who was just staring back at me with a blank expression until he turned his projection to Ralph and said "Ralph this is your mess. You solve it."

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT MEANT TO MEAN?

After a minutes silence Ralph spoke. "I'll explain... The other week I was walking down a street in Leeds, walking in a bit of a hurry because" Ralph looked at the carpet then mumbled the next sentence "I had just been a complete fucker that night in the bathroom with you." He averted his eye contact to the wall. "And the reality of what I did to you had kicked in. I was walking down the street, light headed from the alcohol and tearful; then I accidentilly walked into a baby's pram. I looked up to apologise and realised who this guy was. Believe it or not it turned out to be Max.

Lola!" Ralph looked at me "Years ago I was one of the three guys who hurt would you in the woods. But I didn't rape you! We were forced to do things otherwise Max threatened to murder us and my parents. When Max told us that he was going to Rape you on Thursday the 13th we ran to your house just before Max was going to do it but... by the time we got there you had gone. We ran to the woods and by that time Max must have made his plans earlier and rapped you before we had a chance to intervene because Dan, who I didn't know, had called the police who arrived and arrested the three of us on the spot. You didn't get to really know who raped you, either did Dan because for some reason everything looked like it could have been either of us." Ralph breathed out slowly as though he had been hiding the information for some time. "In the time that I spent in prison. I promised myself that I was going to move away from London and go to somewhere like Leeds and change my lifestyle to something which I would enjoy. That how I got into music, and being in the music industry I met Dan. Dan didn't recognise me because I use to have long hair in those years. I had grown up so I had fully developed in height... and I had surgery on my face to cover any scars that I had from Max who use to beat me up. I lost contact with everyone except my family." He looked around the room. "Hoping I would never see Max again unfortunaly I did. He recognised me straight away because I began to panic and I had in the past spent a lot of time with him so he knew me well. 

He had his wife with him who looked awfully confused because he hadn't told her. I began screaming at her telling her to run and she ran away crying. I shouted he is a rapist and she picked up her phone and called some relative to come and get her and the child but then Max dragged me down onto the floor threatening to kill you, Lola because he said that you had both visited his house to plan on buying it and he new you were around."

That made me think, so that's why Max and his wife were on Jeremy Kyle. Maybe the phone call was to her sister who owned up to him rapping her. It all made sense now. I carried on listening.

"He said that his wife has just found out that he raped his wife's sister and that he was out to get you again this time he wanted me to do it." I felt the blood boil in my own body.

"And were you?" I stuttered in complete shock.

"He threatened that he would kill Dan, all of my band members and many more." Ralph said looking back to the thread bare carpet.

"So" Dan said sounding very stern and serious.

"Yes."