Lo Siento

8

"Hurry! Ugh! The one time I invite you to parties!" Natalia screams in agony.

I ignore her. I'm too busy picking out something decent to wear. And thinking about Ethan's confession yesterday. After all, he is Natalia's lover I guess.

8:28 p.m.

Party starts at 9.

I finally decided what to wear.

A very casual outfit. A white ribbed tee, ripped light-washed jeans, my black low top vans, and a flannel wrapped around my waist.

"Are you rea-" she pauses, staring at me.

"What?" I shrug.

"The outfit. It's so... nice. My sister's a lazy fashionista." she finishes.

I didn't know if that was a compliment or an insult.

"Whatever." I said, rolling my eyes.

9:01 p.m.

The guests are already flooding the house.

"Jaime, Chanel, Jaylene! Thanks for coming guys!" Natalia greets the senior graduate guests as they arrive.

"Thanks for inviting us! Where are the drinks... and boyssss?!" Jaylene sing songs.

"Girl, come on. You already know what's up." Natalia answers, sticking her tongue out like she some crazy bitch. I've never seen this side of her. The girls do the same and run through the house to the backyard where the main party is.

My job was to lock all rooms so nobody would try to steal or do shame-shame. Jaime drops her drink on the floor and makes me clean it.

"Nat, you have your little sister working at your party? I'm so glad boarding school didn't change you," Chanel puts her hand up for a high five but Natalia doesn't take it, which shocks me.

"No Chanel. I invited my sister. Not to be my maid, or anyone else's, especially yours..." she looks at Jaime, "...so you can clean that up, thank you very much." Natalia says as she pulls me up off of the floor and hands Jaime the rag.

Jaime and Chanel were completely shocked as to the point where they could choke. Jaime gets down on her knees and cleans up the rest. I laugh a little causing my sister to kick me.

"Ow." I say as get ready to give her the finger but she points out the drink spill right on top of my chest from cleaning up.

"You better go change," she says as she hands me the keys to the rooms.

"Whatever." I say as I finish giving her the finger.

In my way of the stairs was Cole. He was just standing in front of me. Acting as if nothing happened. Which is what actually happened, nothing. I roll my eyes and push past him. As I walk up the stairs, I hear the front door open. It's Ethan. I saw him and he saw me. It felt like forever we were staring at each other but Natalia came from out of frame and hugged him, interrupting our Moment. I quickly ran upstairs out of embarrassment.

How could I think I would get away with a relationship? Natalia is dating him and I won't get in the way.

I unlock my door and search for another white tank. I finally find one and take off my shirt to change. While looking in the mirror, I see the door start to open. I walked slowly behind the door to keep my privacy. I peek my head over and there he was. Smiling from ear to ear.

"C-Cole. You weren't invited." I was completely nervous, given the fact that I was half naked. He ignores my question and walks in anyway.

"Cole! Get out! I'm changing!" I yell at him. He wasn't answering me.

"Cole..." my voice trails off completely as he closes the door behind him, exposing me in just my bra and pants.

"Julia." he says my name firm causing me to jump.

"Get out!" I yell again.

"No." he shakes his head and shrugs.

He walks towards me, hovering over me being 5"2 and him, 6"0, backing me up onto my bed.

He takes me by the wrist and pins my hands high while he climbs on top of me.

"Wait NO! ST-" I start to scream but he covers my mouth with his right hand.

He kisses my neck roughly, then starts to bite. Tears swell in my eyes. My screams were muffled and since he was on top of me I couldn't kick or punch. Just shake. So I just shook and shook and shook. He swapped his right hand for his mouth as he pressed his lips against mine and used his right hand to trace my body from my breasts to my lower hips, reaching lower and lower. I couldn't help but stay still and cry. My cries were muffled. My screams were muffled. When he reached for a condom, he had to stop kissing me to look down so I used that opportunity to scream.

"Natalia! Someone!" I could only get those words out until he kissed me again to stop me.

"Jules? Are you okay?" I hear Natalia coming upstairs.

For the first time ever, I was so happy to see my sister. Cole let me go and rushed to fix himself, but he was too late. Natalia had already seen enough of him to know what was going on. She screamed and kicked and cried Cole out of the house. Matter of fact, out of the neighborhood. She canceled the party and escorted the guests out of the house.

"Hey, Ethan." I said nervously as he peeps through the door.

I still had my shirt off. He had seen me without a shirt before but it was probably more awkward given our current situation.

"Hey," he says, hands in pocket, sitting next to me on the bed.

"You ok?"

I honestly don't know how to answer the question. Am I okay after near rape? I've never thought I'd have to answer that question.

"I don't know," I yawn.

It was awkward. We sat there for a good two minutes not saying anything until Natalia came upstairs.

"I'm gonna go to Target and get some cleaning supplies. Jaylene puked all over the floor." she says, not looking forward to cleaning up vomit.

"Ok," Ethan and I say in unison.

We heard the door lock and I turned to face Ethan.

"Thanks for checking up on me." I smile.

"No problem. Told you that guy was bad," he smiles back.

"Whatever," I roll my eyes, laughing.

It got really quiet after that. He started leaning closer to me and as instinct, I pushed his chest away from me.

"Nah, we can't," I tell him.

I got up to go get my shirt off the ground, leaving Ethan on my bed. I fold my shirt, trying to change the conversation.

"So, today was-" I started to say until I was grabbed from behind. My mouth was covered and with something slipped into my mouth. The room started spinning. The last words I heard were:

"I love you, Jules."

Then, I fell to the ground and everything went black.