Beating Heart

Chapter 28: Ally

-Ally- 

Mark, Seth, Savannah, Sawyer, & I all have a winter picnic at a local college campus. All the snows melted, & the tempatures are higher today, so we're not freezing our buns off. 

"It feels so nice out here today," Savannah says, & looks around the earth around her. I haven't really gotten to know her since this is the first day we've ever spent a day all together. Seth comes up behind her, & wraps his arms around her waist, & whispers something I can't hear, in her ear, & she giggles. 

"Help me with the blanket," Mark says, unfolding it. I take one end & he takes the other. We flap it in the air, then carefully lay it down. Sawyer runs & jumps face down onto it, & we all laugh. Mark bends over & grabs him. "Silly boy." 

Sawyer bursts into a fit of giggles. I open the picnic basket up, & take out all the food we bought. I only bought mac n' cheese for Sawyer cause that's the only thing that he likes that I bought. I take the lid of that, & he starts to devour it immediately. 

"Slow down bud," Seth tells him, & looks at me while he says it. I still haven't figured out what he's hiding from me, but I know it must be big. I'm not going to let that get in the way of today though. 

I take out the rest of the food, watermelon, potato salad, macaroni salad, pickles, lunch meat, & bread. We all take turns making plates. 

"So how long have you two been dating?" Savannah asks, as Seth plays with her fingers. 

"2 months," Mark answers with a mouthful of pickle. "Best two months of my life," he says & looks at me. He leans down & kisses me. 

"I hope we have something like you guys do someday," she says, & turns her attention to Seth. 

"Everyone will," I tell her, & I lean into Mark. He drops a pletora of kisses on my forehead. I hide my head in his shoulder, & smile. We all finish eating, & Seth offers his sandwich to me. "No thanks." 

"You know you want it," he says in a voice I've heard before. I've heard that voice. Then it all comes back to me. 

I lose Bailie as soon as I enter the house. I walk around, & I decide to get a small amount of beer, just so it looks like I'm not a complete loser. 

"Hey pretty lady," a husky voice whispers in my ear. I turn around & see Seth standing there completely stoned. "Wanna have some fun?" He smirks, & I'm nervous what that smirk is going to do. 

"No thanks," I tell him. "I don't really do parties." 

"Aw come on," he says holding his arms out to me. "You know you want to." 

"I really don't," I say to him. I try to walk away, but he grabs me. 

"Come on let's have some fun," he says in my ear, & licks it. "I'll be gentle." 

"I said no," I try to push him away, but he grabs me & throws me over his shoulder. I drop my cup, but I don't care. I scream, & flail my arms, but nobody can hear me. Everyone around me is drunk. I squeeze his butt, thinking that if I can make it hurt, he'll let me go. 

"You're a feisty little thing," he says to me, & throws me on the bed. "I like fiesty." 

"Let me go!" I scream. He doesn't move, he just smirks, & starts to kiss & bite my neck. 

He pins my hands behind my head, "I know you want it." 

His hands slide in my pants, & he pulls them down. I feel the penatration, & it hurts like hell. He goes fast & hard, & I want to scream. I am screaming, but nobody can hear me. I feel so helpless. When he's done, he still holds his hands behind my head, & whispers, "Thanks for that." 

His hands let go off me, & he's out of the room before I can even react. I stand up to put my pants back on. Then, I collaspe to the floor, & everything goes black. 

When I wake up, I'm in my bed. It's morning, & my parents sit at my bedside, "Bailie found you passed out, & brought you home," my mom says with a concerned look on her face. 

I come back to reality. All this happened in just a few seconds, one minute we were having a nice picnic, & the next, I find out Seth is the one who raped me. Seth is Sawyer's father. I'm beyond furious. 

"You did it," I point my finger at him. "You raped me." 

Mark grabs me, & everyone's eyes go wide. Mark tries to calm me down, but I push him away. 

Seth though, he doesn't even try to hide it, in fact he looks sorry. Guilty. But I'm not going to buy it. 

"Ally," Seth says slowly. Savannah gasps in shock, & Mark is about to attack him. "Please let me explain." 

"Explain?" Mark booms. I'm pretty sure a lot of people just looked our way. "Explain that you raped her? Why you did it? None of that matters Seth! What you did, you did. There's no explaination for it." 

"I was drunk!!" Seth yells. "I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't even know I did it, till Ally came to school pregnant one day!" 

I feel like I'm going to be sick, then I yell, "You knew, & you didn't have the balls to stand up & be a man about it. To at least help with Sawyer!" 

"If that's what you want!" Seth yells back at me, & I have to hold Mark back from him beating Seth's face into a pulp. 

"NO!" I scream as loud as I can. People definately hear it that time. "I just wanted to know what happened, who did it. That's all I've ever wanted to know, & I've gone two years not knowing who Sawyer's father was, & now I find out it's one of my friends!" 

"You have three seconds to get out of my face or I'm beating the shit out of you," Mark threatens, & at first I don't think he's going to do it, but Seth doesn't move. "I'm warning you now dude." 

"I can't believe this," Savannah cries. I feel sorry for her dating someone who raped someone, but right now I really don't care. The truth was going to come out sometime sooner or later. 

"I'm sorry Ally," Seth says & looks like he's going to cry. "I really am. I didn't know what I was doing." 

"That's what they all say," Mark says & his fist connects to Seth's face. People scream, & I try to pull Mark off Seth, but then Sawyer starts crying & screaming. I go to him, because he needs me. Seth hits Mark right in the gut, & he doubles over. When Mark regains his balance, he hits Seth in the crotch, then punches him right in the face. Seth falls over, & he holds his hand up for mercy. 

"Mark let's go," I cry. I'm crying too. "Mark please." 

Mark looks over at me, & his face goes from twisted & angry to soft & caring again. He sees us crying. "I'm sorry. I just couldn't hold it back." 

I nod, & I collaspe my body into his. "It's over Mark. It's finally over." 

"I know baby," he whispers to me. We leave Savannah & Seth just sitting there, while we head to the truck & drive off. 

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author's note: so I'm definately dividing this into 2 chapters. 

SO DID ANYONE SUSPECT SETH AS BEING THE ONE? I'm evil I know. 

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