THIRTY NINE

"Say it."She urged."That he raped me."Avery doesn't think she can go through with this.What if Alex won't look at her in the same way.She doesn't need nor want his pity it would be terrible."Yes he did."

"Was he caught."She took comfort in the hand that was gently caressing her back.

"No."She smiled sadly."Every time I think about it it makes me so angry.He got to live his life freely and move on as if nothing happened while I..I..."She stopped,even now it's hard to talk about it.

"If it's difficult to continue then don't."

"Most of my life it's only been me and Nicole,she took care of me.When mom died of an overdose Nicole couldn't handle it.She took our mother's death much worse than I did.I was fourteen when she started doing cocaine by then it's been a year since our mother died.My dad was never around but as far as I know he's no longer alive too."She paused for a second."Nicole met a lot of people because of her drug addiction especially men.We were living in a motel when she br