Secret.

His name was James, a player of the class. He had been constantly bothering me, Cynthia had told him off but after saying he had a crush on me she decided to invite him to our graduation night.

But after our dance and me running off, she told him to stay away. But when Cynthia got drunk and her boyfriend took her away I was left alone.

James approached me again and this time he wasn't taking no for an answer.

Nathan stopped her, he was wiping the falling tears from her face.

"It's okay, love. You can stop if you can't" he smiled with tears in her eyes.

" I was from the washrooms when I saw him standing outside with his three friends. Shocked I moved back but he smirked walking towards me" she sniffed, " I was pushed back inside the washroom and he closed the door".

Alex stood next to the sink, "What do you want?" she said.

"You know what I want Alex, but we both know you have been playing innocent" he laughed.

She moved back avoiding his hand.

"Let us both act mature, I know you want it to" he bent down stealing a peck on her face.

"I don't want anything from you, so please let me go" her lips quivered moving back. Her hand cleaned the part his lips just touched.

He grabbed her forcibly, his hand grabbing her breast under her dress. His alcohol breath getting close to her again. His lips this time aggressively pushed onto hers and before he could push his tongue inside her mouth she screamed pushing him away, James fell backwards and her mind told her to run or something bad was going to happen to her. Her eyes landed on the door to the toilet.

She ran inside and closed the door with her trembling hands.

A loud noise was heard on the door, "You better come out Alex or I will come in and get you" his angry voice yelled.

"Leave me alone" she screamed through her tears.

"Am not playing nice anymore" he shouted banging on the door

"I said am not coming out, leave me alone "she cried

A knock came at the door, "Hi James you in trouble, her sister is back" his friend said.

"I thought she left," he said.

"Well she's back and seems to be looking for her sister," he said back.

"Alex your one lucky girl, tonight might not be it but I know we will meet in the future" he laughed walking out.

Alex breathed as tears streamed down her face. Her body was shaking so much that she failed to open the door twice.

She heard her sister's voice.

"Alex, Alex are you in here? Someone told me you were hiding in here" Cynthia yelled.

"I am," she said in a weak voice.

"Come out the car is ready, let's go home," Cynthia said.

Alex wiped her face, "I thought you left" she said.

"And leave you behind in this pack of wolves & I know you don't know most of them," she said.

Alex walked out and headed to the sink to wash her face.

"You okay, you seem to be cold," Cynthia said noticing her trembling body.

"Am fine guess I spent a lot of time in there" she tried to smile.

"Am sorry I forgot about you, it was the alcohol?" she said hugging her.

Alex smiled, "Let's go home then"

"That night I wiped with my head buried deep in my pillow, and it was a long night. My eyes were swollen for days and I lied saying it was an alcohol reaction. So no one suspected, James left the country to help his father's business so I never saw him again. So my secret was buried that way".

He wiped her tears and kissed her eyes.

"Since then I find it hard to let anyone touch me, but with you... It makes me feel safe instead of being afraid" she cried.

Nathan held her silencing her sobs in his chest.

"Am sorry that happened to you, Alex. I wish we met sooner so I could have protected you" he said.

"But you helped me go past that fear... But what scares me is that after all that am not worth your love. My body has already been tainted by that disgusting man's hands that I don't want....."