The Parents' Secret

THE PARENTS' SECRET, PART 1

💛🧡❤️trigger warning, this first episode may be triggering to people with sexual assault in their past. read if you feel safe. i don't want to bring back something that is in the past. if this is the case you are NOT ALONE. please please speak to someone if you need it, ily stay strong xxxx❤️🧡💛

'It's time to tell you.' said Alice to Betty.
'Tell me what, Mom?' asked Betty.
'Us parents, we are not as innocent as we seem.' said Alice, she could barely look Betty in the eye. She continued.
'A long time ago way before Veronica was born. Hermoine used to live in Riverdale. She attended the all girls catholic school, that was a part of The Sisters of Quiet Mercy, in freshman year. It was fine until...' Alice paused. 'Until a certain male priest joined the school. He joined in the last quarter of school. He went by the name Pastor Gibson. He did morning and after school classes and taught well, as i've heard. Nothing seemed to be going wrong. Hermoine had made a few, but not many, friends. Some teachers were nice, some teachers were strict. This was all until everyone saw a change in Pastor Gibson's behaviour...'

** CHANGES TO TEEN HERMOINES POV **
During Bible Studies for a few days, he was acting strange. He was always bubbly and excited to teach us new things. But lately, he was acting mysterious and out of focus. He would just keep staring at a few of the girls in the class, including me, for like 3 minuets straight. His beady eyes would be set on you for what felt like years. At lunch, Sandra brought it up.
'Did you see Gibson looking at particular girls in the class? He is a weird one.' 
'I'm sure it's no big deal, San. You make everything so dramatic. I mean he has eyes and a class of pretty girls. That's men for you.' said Grace, laughing.
I sat there in silence, staring at the floor. I didn't think it was right. Something was up and i didn't like it.
THE NEXT DAY
Gossip was going round the school. 'Pastor Gibson had touched Faith Bittersea in an inappropriate place'. Great. One thing i couldn't stand, was gossip. Everyone, and i mean everyone was talking about it. It's all usually fake. You know the gossip. But a lot of girls had seen the way he not only looked at Faith, but also other girls. A part of me believed it. Even though the rest of me knew it was one of the popular girls making it up.
As soon as i entered bible studies, i felt a weird vibe. It was a cold, eery energy that make me shiver. I sat down at my table and all i could here was whispering. I knew exactly what it was about, Gibson. He hadn't turned up to class yet but everyone was freaking out and the popular girls were making bets on who's next.
When Pastor Gibson entered the room, the whispering stopped and it was complete silence. He looked a mess. It looked like he had no sleep at all and he couldn't even walk in a straight line. He was drunk. It had been half an hour and the room was silent. You could hear a pin drop. Gibson was speaking nonsense, nothing to do with bible studies. I could tell some people were trying so hard to hold back their laugh as they heard him waffle on about God knows what. The bell rang and it was time for lunch. I was dreading lunch with my friends because i knew all they were going to talk about was Gibson.
I was walking out of the room when, 'Oi, Gomez. Yes. You. Come here!' it was Pastor Gibson. My temperature dropped and my pulse doubled.
I sat down at my table and he shut the door. I was beginning to sweat and my breathing got heavier. What if he assaults me? he brought a chair over and sat next to me.
'You are so pretty! That dark hair and those brown eyes.' he said with a smirk on his face.
'uh... t-t-thanks' i was really stressing now. why me?
his hand was on my thigh. i pushed it off, i didn't like this at all. i wish someone would save me.
'Now now, Gomez. i'm not going to hurt you.' he put one hand on my thigh and the other around my mouth. i couldn't shout. my pulse tripled.
i pulled his hand off of my mouth. his smirk turned into a death stare and he slapped me. then black.
i woke up. expecting for this to all be a nightmare i opened my eyes and... i was in the classroom.
i was still sat on the chair but Gibson was no where to be seen so i tried to get off the chair and run out of the classroom. i tried getting up and... i couldn't. i looked down. i was tied to the chair. my arms taped behind me and my legs were tied together. i tried to scream for help but no sound came. he had taped my mouth shut.
the door opened and i was expecting it to be Gibson but it was the principal. she ran in and cut all of the tape from me. she let me free.
'Sister Theresa he a-a-attacked me.' i said shakily. my face was drowned in tears.
'Hermoine it's ok, it's ok, you're safe now.' she hugged me, 'i've called your parents and told them exactly what happened. They're on their way down here now.'