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After that day Z had become less cold towards me. He was being nice again, answering my texts, accepting my calls and FaceTimes. And when I asked him if he wanted to go to another party that Bruno was hosting, he agreed.

So here we are. At the party.

Gross.

I didn't want to go, like usual but Mia made me go. She said it was because I hadn't gone to a party since the last one and that was three weeks ago.

She even chose my outfit and did my hair and makeup. She was freaking out over nothing.

She forced me into a dress. It wasn't tight but it wasn't loose either. The dress had buttons up the front, but not all the way down the front. It had yellow flowers with small beige spots and it stopped right at my mid thigh.

She at least let me wear white slip on Vans.

She did two french braid up until the middle of my hair and grabbed some hair and put it in a bun so that it was a half up half down kind of hairstyle.

Mia didn't apply to much makeup, which I was very thankful for.

Just some mascara, highlighter, and some lip gloss.

"Why do I have to wear a dress?" I grumble.

"Because, I bought it in a size to small so I wanted to see if you would fit in it and you do so now you have to wear it."

We pull up to Brayden's house and I jump out of the passenger seat, because that's Brayden's seat ever since him and Mia started dating.

I hope in the back and Brayden jumps in the front seat of the car. Alessio hops in the back with me.

He shoots me a smile as he buckles up his seatbelt.

Safety first hoes.

We aren't trying to die.

"WHO'S READY TO FUCKING PARTY?!" Brayden yells as we pull up to Bruno's house. I giggle and hop out of the car, interlacing my hand with Alessio's.

He squeezes it.

We walk in, Brayden and Mia are immediately lost somewhere in the crowd.

Alessio pulls my hand as we move to the dance floor and start dancing with each other. We were having a blast.

Sometime in the night I ended up with a drink in my hand and an Alessio gone missing.

I stumbled around looking for him when I bumped into a person. "Oops. Sorry there." I say.

I take a sip out of my drink and look up at the person, "What do you know! It's Ethan."

He smiles at me and watches as I lift my drink up to my mouth.

"Hi Penelope."

We stand there and talk for awhile when I start to get sleepy, really really sleepy. I almost fall but Ethan catches me.

"Woah there. You ok?" He asks.

"Yeah," I say, "I just need to find Z and go home maybe. I'm pretty tired."

"Oh, well I don't know where Z is but there's a bed upstairs. You can maybe take a nap."

I nod my head and tell him that it sounds nice and he takes me to one of the bedrooms up stairs.

TW this particular scene involves r*pe. Look for bold text to know when it stops.

He sets me down on a bed and I start to drift off, and then I feel a pair of hands on my legs and lips on mine.

"Hey, stop." I whisper out to the person who's on me, I hear a chuckle and then everything goes black.

I feel pain and then I hear yelling.

And then there's a sound of something breaking, and then something is shaking me.

Someone wants me to wake up but I can't. I can't open my eyes.

"GOD DAMMIT PENELOPE WAKE UP!" I hear someone yell.

"I'm trying." I want to say, but I can't force the words out.

More shaking.

Could they stop? My head hurts and it's only making it worse.

"Wake up!"

Someone's crying.

"Please don't cry." I want to say. I don't know why anyone would be crying right now.

And then I wake up. Mia is over my body shaking me. When she sees I'm awake she starts to cry and pulls my body towards hers for a hug.

I manage to look around and the world is in chaos.

Brayden is holding on to Alessio. Alessio is screaming at someone. I follow his gaze and see Bruno holding back Ethan.

"What's happening?" I ask.

Mia just starts to cry even harder. "Mia what's wrong? Why are you crying?"

I look away from Mia's face and at the room once more. Bruno is pulling Ethan out of the room, Ethan yells something at Alessio and Alessio tries to break free from Brayden's firm grip.

Bruno shuts the door.

Alessio looks over at me and tears are streaming down his face. "Why is everyone crying?"

Alessio runs over to me, "Penny!" he hugs my body and starts to cry again.

"What's wrong?" I ask again. Rubbing Alessio's hair.

I get no answer but am pulled out of the room and into Mia's Jeep.

I want to ask questions but I realize no one will answer me.

Ok it's over but it might be mentioned again in an upcoming chapter. i will always give out a warning tho.

Alessio grabs my hand as we walk into his house with everyone.

I'm pulled into Alessio's room and everyone is standing and staring at me sitting on the bed.

I want to know what happened, and I think I'm about to find out.

"What happened?"

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