Chapter 7
"Anabelle, do you remember how bad I treated you at camp", she said." Yeah I do." I responded. "Around that time my mother had met a new guy, and they had just got married. I was so upset at my mom, but she didn't care, so she sent me to the week long camp. I remember the day when it all started. I was coming home one day from school , he called me into his bedroom, so I came.".Then he started to feel me up inappropriatly. I told him to stop, at first he did. Then he continued to do it, but the next time he went even further. He raped me !"she said sobing. "I told my mom, but she didn't beleive me. She thought I was trying to break them up, he continued to sexually assault me, so I eventually stopped telling my mom altogether, knowing she wouldn't believe me. Then one day I was at school, and they talked about sexual abuse and rape" she said, by this time she was staring at the ground." I spoke to my teacher about what happened to me, she told my mom, but my mom still didn't beleive me. I was only 12 when this happened, and from then on I hated my mother with a passion."
"My mom came home early one day to see me crying in the bedroom, with my stepfather hand around my mouth, and the other one on my waist. It was only then she beleived me. She divorced him, and filled criminal charges aganist him. However I didn't care because by then I was in the process of moving to New York to live with my sister. She tried to stop me, but I refused to be stopped, I was furious with my own mother and I wanted nothing to do with her." her eyes were filled with saddness but also strength, when she said that. " Annabelle, I didn't mean to steal Caleb from you, I guess he just reminded me of the father I never had."she said shyly. I hugged her, not knowing how else to respond. It was at that moment I realized you really can't judge a person by their appearence. Chloe was a good example of that.
The next day I walked to school with Chloe. When we opened our lockers, we saw Lea with a black eye and a swollen face. " What happened", Chloe asked curiously." I bumped into the wall." she said quietly before rushing off to class. Last time I checked you didn't get a black eye and your entire face swollen when you bumped into the wall. But what did I know, I had only bumped into the wall like a zillion times.
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Best Friends For Ever Or For Never (On Hold)
Short StoryEveryone in their life at least once had that one person you told your secrets, that one person who always got you in trouble yet you still hung out with , that one person who could cheer you up when you're down. For Annabelle it was Caleb. But what...
