Taking Chances

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Sixteen

( TW // rape, sexual assault )

Elise’s POV

As I slowly opened my eyes the next morning, I felt a blanket covering me but still it felt cool. I slowly sat, my head was throbbing and I still felt a bit weak. I shook my head and looked around, where am I?

 It took me around a minute or two to realize that I was in James’s bedroom, why am I here?

I slowly got out of bed, I still felt a little wobbly and my body felt weak and sore. I took a few steps and my knees buckled causing me to fall on the floor

As I pushed against the floor to get myself up, I felt something soft; it was a piece of clothing. I stared at it and realized that it was my clothes that were lying on the floor.

I looked at myself and realized that I was naked and I had bruises all over my body

“What happened?!?” I reacted in full panic; I quickly sat back on the bed and covered myself with the blanket

I held my head and tried to remember anything that happened but everything was blank, the only thing I remembered was the dinner with James after that, nothing, it’s a big blank.

“I got to find James…”

I got dressed and went out of his room, I found Zeke, James’s cousin and roommate. He informed me that James left about an hour ago after he got home

“He said he’s going to go visit Jasmine and was going to give her something important” he simply said

“No..h-he can’t leave, I ha-have to talk to him…” I responded, still feeling the throbbing on my head

Zeke looked at me with concern, “are you alright? You look like you’ve been sedated”

I didn’t answered and just walked pass him; I barely made it to the door when Zeke held me

“C’mon, I’m taking you home” he said when he saw my weak state

“No! I need to go see James!” I reacted “please…take me to him”

Zeke looked at me and sighed then he led me to his car and we drove off

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Charlie’s POV

Mom had left early for work and as usual, I’m home alone. After breakfast and a shower, I got ready for my early morning soccer practice

I was locking the house when I saw James walking towards me

“Hey Charlie!” James greeted

“What do you want?” I asked

“I have something to tell you” James said with a serious tone “it’s kinda private, can we talk inside your house?”

“No, just leave me alone, I have soccer practice and I don’t want to be late” I said and quickly put my IPod on and crank up the volume to maximum so I don’t have to hear anything James said then I dashed pass him and started running to my school

Our practice ended after an hour or so because our coach had to rush off due to a personal emergency and told us to just meet him again later this afternoon to continue our practice. I still felt energized so I decided to jog home to lose some of that excess energy, when I got there, James was still hanging around my house

He was sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigarette, so I quickly went to him

“What are you still doing here?” I asked “I told you I don’t want to talk!”