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mentions of rape / SA ( not detailed )
"You're just like everybody else in this town!"
"And you're just the town's SLUT- I-I didn't-." Stumbling over her words, the woman stared wide-eyed at the teenage girl in front of her as shock took over her lungs. She couldn't believe what she had said.
Staring straight ahead, Eris let a lone tear drip down her cheek. She couldn't believe it; the one person she thought she could rely on thought she was a whore just like everyone else in this town.
"Eris please." She pleaded, but it fell on deaf ears as Eris collected herself and looked her sister dead in the eyes.
"I'm going to have a happy life, and you're going to be stuck here on this farm with dad forever!" She yelled.
Too shocked to speak, the older of the pair watched her younger sister turn away. Missing the obvious sign as Eris touched her stomach with a shaky hand.
Eris and her sister had been fighting more and more lately, mostly started by their father and ending with her being blamed by her sibling while the rest of her siblings stayed out of the fight.
She didn't know why her father seemed to blame her for everything, even when it wasn't her fault, while the person who was supposed to be her best friend for life blamed her for their father's drinking.
After a few minutes of walking, she took her phone out of her jeans pocket after she reached the main road that led to the town. And dialled the only person she thought would be able to console her, letting out a sigh. Eris felt her lip quiver as the sound of her boyfriend's answering machine echoed in her ears. He didn't answer.
Shaking her head as she pocketed the phone, Eris held back another sob as she continued to walk towards town.
She wasn't really surprised; she had told him about her pregnancy the day before, and he didn't take it as well as a normal person would. Yes, they were sixteen, and no one's really prepared to be a parent, let alone at such a young age, but she at least thought that he'd talk to her about the situation, but instead he stood there silently staring back at her with nothing but anger.
As if him not pulling out quick enough was her fault, as if she impregnated herself.
At the time, she knew to just leave so his anger would dissolve, but this time it was different. It wasn't just her in a crappy relationship; it was also her baby, and even though she didn't know whether she was going to keep it, she knew one thing: no one messes with her family, especially the only one she seemed to have left at the moment.
Eris knew the only reason he didn't pick up was because he was either taking drugs or fucking some other girl. This situation had happened multiple times: Eris would be on the side of the road by her house, while her body shaked with sobs, waiting for her boyfriend to call her back, only to come back empty handed, and then to get a random call in the morning from a hungover Tristan, about how he was sorry and that he didn't mean to sleep with another girl, that he thought it was her, which was complete bullshit, but Eris relied on him, so Eris did what she always did: she accepted his crappy apology.
She didn't know what else to do or say; she was perceived as the town's whore, even though she had only slept with one person, aka Tristan. How she got the title as the towns whore was a very short but awful story.
Which included her teacher and some very inappropriate touching in which only one of the people involved enjoyed it, and I think you can guess who that was.
Eris didn't even know what sex was; yes, she was taught about it in biology, but they don't really go into details about consent and what is and isn't appropriate between two people of different ages. And Authority.
In this case, a pedophile restraining a fourteen-year-old in a supply closet while the rest of the school was in assembly.
The teacher didn't intend to get caught, let alone get arrested, but once Eris's older brother saw the bruises on her arms, he demanded to know, and in the end, Eris broke, and he got the information that started with a worried question but ended in him driving to the school in a full-blown rage and beating the crap out of Mr. Crown. The headmaster called the cops, which ended up with Shawn spending a night in prison, and the teacher's life, it turns out he'd done it multiple times, and Eris wasn't his first.
This made Eris feel worse; if her brother hadn't seen the bruises the day after it had happened, then Mr. Crown would have done it as many times as he could with different girls before being caught.
Some girls saw Eris's brother beating up a teacher and came up with their own conclusion, the conclusion being that her own birth brother found out that Eris had fucked the teacher multiple times, which made him jealous because he wanted Eris to himself, which is totally fucked up.
Not only did the rumours make her quote on quote an Incest Slut but also the town whore. Eris couldn't believe which was more mad! The fact that people came to that answer or that the town believed a fourteen-year-old town girl who had never had a crush before would fuck not only her teacher but her brother was disgusting and absolutely distorted.
Eris had never heard anything more made up than the tooth fairy; she had grown up in this town, and her neighbours had known her from a baby all the way up to an innocent and kind girl who couldn't hurt a fly.
Her mother used to tell her that Eris was exactly like Cinderella, a young village girl full of adventure and a heart full of imagination. It turns out that Eris had more in common with Cinderella than she would have thought.
Shortly after her Eleventh birthday, Eris's Mother fell ill with stage four cancer. It turns out that her mother had been sick for a few years, but Eris had never noticed, too lost in her imagination and dreams to see her mother's pale skin or the hours of weakness where her mother would make up an excuse like having to cook dinner or that she didn't get enough sleep that night, so she decided to take a nap.
Eris was blinded by the flowers and butterflies in her mother's garden, which soon turned to dead trees and yellow land instead of green grass like her mother's eyes.
Everything about her mother was lost; everything was left behind. In eleven-year-old Eris's mind, she couldn't stop the memories of her mother from fading. She was told by her big sister that her mind lost memories to gain new ones, but to Eris, the memories of her mother, even the simple things like her hair or her perfume, were the most important memories she would ever have and try so hard to keep.
But without her mother dying, Eris would have never gotten pregnant or ran away from her home, which at the time was the worst thing a pregnant teenager could do, but the outcome of the situation would make Eris believe in miracles and love-even if it's with a cowboy who had a group called the Alexandrians and who may or may not hold something she thought was dead.
A/N: I'm backkk! Sorry I've been MIA for forever! I've just been dealing with some family stuff and now that it's calmed down
