Hearts Of Glass💔🥀 [completed]

18: Cry For Help

Bebe Rexha- I'm a mess

"I'm a mess, I'm a loser
I'm a hater, I'm a user
I'm a mess for your love, it ain't new
I'm obsessed, I'm embarrassed
I don't trust no one around us
I'm a mess for your love, it ain't new"

Maia

The rain poured all over me. I walked home. I reached out for my phone and called Cade.

"Maia? Hey look I'm really sorry about earlier, could we please talk?" He said.

I didn't speak. Instead I cried.

"Baby are you crying?"

"He raped me." I told him.

"Who?" His voice rose.

"Jack." And he hung up.

I was afraid of what he was planning on doing. I was just too weak. I could hardly pick up my own feet to keep walking.

As I was struggling to walk, I felt a strange presence behind me. I turned slightly to see what was behind me. A black car was parked just behind me. I shrugged the feeling off and kept walking.

The strange feeling of being followed intensified when I turned and saw the black car. It had moved. I stepped closer to the vehicle and when I was close enough, the strange man inside reversed and made an abrupt turn while flashing it's blinding lights right into my eyes.

I drew backwards and breathed out.
Whatever that was.

It wasn't long before I got him. I was soaking wet. My mom wasn't even at home. I took off the clothes that I had been wearing. The clothes that had a trademark of the day I was raped.

I sat inside the tub of warm water and closed my eyes. I allowed myself to cry. Why me? Why did the universe place a curse above me? What did I do? Where did I go wrong?

As I thought more and more about how my life was a death sentence on its own, I began to sink into the tub.
Maybe if the water drowned me, I wouldn't have to put up with the shame of being me. I completely immersed myself inside the tub water.

...

"Maia!" Cade shook me.

I coughed out some water and opened my eyes and saw him.

"What were you thinking?" He asked.

"What happened?" I asked.

"If I had come here any later, you could've died. What? You wanna kill yourself?" He questioned.

"I was raped Cade! Isn't that enough?" I rose my voice.

"I sent that asshole straight to hell."

"What did you do to him?" I asked.

"It doesn't matter. What matters is that we go to the hospital right now." He told me.

"What's the use?" They can't unrape me.

A shiny tear escaped from his eyes and hit the corner of my towel.

"Don't say that. This is all my fault. I shouldn't have let you go."

"It's not your fault Cade. Just go home." I told him.

"No, and the police. You have to report him." He suggested.

I shook my head in disagreement.

"Go home." I instructed.

He pulled my wet body in between his arms. He kissed my forehead. And we stayed like that until we heard my mom pulling into the driveway.

I gave him the look indicating that he should leave.

"I'm not going anywhere." He said.

I didn't argue.

My mom came upstairs.

"Maia, what's the meaning of this. What happened?" My mother exclaimed.

"I was raped mom." I told her.

She expressed all her sorrow, pity and sadness just like Cade did. We sat there and I could barely hear what they were saying. It was as if time was moving slowly and I was dying a slow death.

My mother called the police even though I didn't want her to.

Cade spent the night with me. I just couldn't sleep alone. I was too afraid. The other thought that made me lose my sleep was the strange man who followed me when I was coming home.

Did he have any significance as to what happened? Was it just a conspiracy or coincidence?