Young Adult

Chapter nineteen - The life of a rich kid

Six years ago

I picked up my phone as James was calling me "Addy you left your purse at the club yesterday, I'm about to preform so if you need it you'll have to collect it yourself." I sighed as I was supposed to meet Charlotte at a club right now.

"Ok thanks James, I'll be right over." I called Charlotte straight after, "Charlotte I'm going to be late, I have to pick up my purse at James' but I'll meet you straight away after." I could hear her groan through the phone.

"It's fine, I'm talking to some cute guys right now, so if you come straight away you'll just ruin the mood." She hung up on me again, Charlotte had been lashing out a lot recently because I got into Yale and she didn't. I knew why and I could understand it, but it still hurt.

I decided to stay in the back room at James' for a while so that Charlotte could have her fun, I got a call from her a while later.

"Addy ..." she breathed heavily, and I could tell that she had been crying. I ran straight over to the club and walked into our private room, glasses were smashed everywhere and only Charlotte was still here.

She covered only in a jacket, she had cuts all over and several light bruises that were forming. "Charlotte!" I cried as I ran over to her shaking body.

"What happened." I asked her, she looked into my eyes - they looked lifeless and desperate. "One of the guys slipped something into my drink and after I came back from going into the bathroom everyone else had gone... I tried to leave or fight back but I couldn't..."

I held her close as she cried again, I called my driver to bring some clothes and meet us here to take her to the hospital.

But once I woke up the next morning she had left the building.

I ran all over to find her and eventually found out where she was.

"Charlotte!" I ran into the piano room at school, "are you okay!" She sat there crying in a corner.

I paced over to her and handed her a tissue and hugged her tightly, "are you okay?" She shook her head "I thought going to school would make it okay, out I keep picturing his disgusting hands all over me no matter how much I wash."

"Charlotte..." I muttered coarsely, "where were you that night! I told you to take your time not show up at all, I told you to stop hanging around that poor musician, he's a bad influence!"

"Charlotte I'm sorry! If I could go back to that night I would've gone straight to that club!" I urged, she got up "forget it! You have no idea the pain I went through that night!" She stormed off at went to her first lesson.

I knew that she was rightfully mad but it still hurt ...

A couple weeks went by and nothing really happened except Charlotte isolating me, I finally got a call from Courtney on a Friday "Addy, Charlottes been acting strange all night, we're at this nightclub and this guy came up and started to talk to her, and she's started to act scary."

I asked her for the name of the club and what room they had gone into and ran straight over, the other girls had left as Charlotte had ditched them. But I thought that this was my chance to save her this time.

I opened the door and fell onto the ground.

"Charlotte..." I muttered in complete shock, she turned to look at me shaking aswell.

"Addy..." she whimpered as she dropped the bloody knife in her hand.

I screamed softly as it hit the ground.

There lay the bloodied body of the man I'm guessing that raped her, I took a brave look at his face only to realise that I know who he is. The son of a shell corporation owner who recently became a politician.

If he was a regular person this would've been easier to cover up, but fighting a man with money and power... I don't know how we were going to get out of this unscathed ...