Chapter 34

Cassie?s POV
His hands were slowly riding my dress up and with every centimeter he gained, my heart beat faster. About two inches away from my waist, I shoved him and yanked my dress back down. “Jake please don?t make me do that. Do anything else, but please not something like that.”
“Do you would like Taylor here or not?”

“I do, of course I do…” I trailed off, my voice shaky and my eyes watering. “Please Jake, please don?t-” He cut me off, pulling me to his bed and shoving me down. ?He climbed on best of me, kneeling above me. His hands had been pinning my arms down and he lowered his head to kiss me, angrily. His mouth forced my open and his tongue slid in, sweeping across my mouth. I was crying now, scared out of my mind. When he lastly pulled back I could barely breathe because I was crying so tough. He moved back some, so he was able to obtain to my dress. He began pulling it up but I was able to kick him off and jump off the bed. He grabbed my arm and backhanded me. I fell, hitting my head against the bedpost. Sharp pain shot by means of me and I screamed. Every little thing was blurry and I moved my hand to my head, feeling something warm, wet and somewhat sticky. When I took my hand away from my head and looked at it, it was red, coated in blood. I stood up, my legs shaky, and stumbled towards the door. I unlocked it and yanked it open.

Jake grabbed my arm again, but I swung out on him, clawing, scratching and punching. My head was pounding, sending sharp pain by means of me as I fought off Jake. Lastly I kneed him and he doubled over. I turned back to the door and ran out to the hallway. I stumbled down the stairs and into the lounge where I collapsed, over come with all the pain. I noticed everyone staring at me and I knew I looked awful.
Everything was spinning and blurry, after which everything went black.

Taylor?s POV
I was sitting inside the lounge, watching tv with some of the other boys when I heard somebody scream. Every person inside the lounge looked around along with a few looked out the door. “No 1?s out there. D?you believe it came from the girls dorms?” Somebody asked.
“Nah, that?s too far away, we wouldn?t hear it.” An individual else answered.
I stood up. “It sounded like it came from upstairs.”
“I bet it was Carl. He ought to have seen a spider.” One of the boys joked.

“It almost certainly came from 1 of the guys television?s.” Blake shrugged. “Whatever it was, it?s not screaming anymore so it?s probably no huge deal.”
I sat down, slowly, and decided to forget about it, when we heard somebody coming down the stairs. We all turned to see Cassie, stumbling into the room barefoot, 1 hand holding the back of her head, blood smeared on her face, her dress torn slightly and she fell to the ground. Everyone rushed more than and some of the boys took off for the dean as well as the nurse.

I shoved my way by way of the boys and knelt subsequent to her. She was out cold, a scared look on her unconscious face. I stood up and ran up the stairs to Jake?s room. He was bent over in obvious discomfort. Well at least she inflicted some sort of damage on him, I believed, proper ahead of punching him, sending him flying across the room. There was blood on his shirt and a little on his face. Scratch marks covered his arms and there was a bright red mark on his face exactly where she ought to have slapped him. I saw a pair of black heels on the floor against the wall opposite of the door. “What did you do to her?” I asked, grabbing his shirt collar and yanking him upright.

“Nothing!” He squeaked out. “Well absolutely nothing purposely! She hit her head on the bedpost.”
I roughly let go off his shirt and he fell backwards. “Stay away from her. I don?t care in the event you tell the dean what happened or not. I?m not gonna let you touch her ever once more.” As he stood up I punched him as difficult as I could. He stumbled back, holding his nose. I turned and stormed out, hurrying back downstairs to see if Cassie was gonna be okay. The nurse was kneeling more than her, and I could see the dean hurrying towards the dorm using a couple of students leading him. I squeezed by means of the crowd once again and crouched down beside the nurse. “Is she gonna be okay?”

“She need to. Help me get her to my office.” She stood up. I slid my arms under Cassie and carefully scooped her up. Standing up using a groan, I shifted my arms slightly. She wasn?t heavy but standing up while holding a person is sorta challenging. “Do you need assist with that?” The nurse asked, looking about for a person who would help hold Cassie, but I shook my head.

“No I got her.”
“Alright, let?s go.” She said and we walked, slowly, to her office. I set Cassie on the bed and also the nurse sat down in the chair beside her and started examining her head. She held a cloth to her head and about ten minutes later it stopped bleeding. “It was just a scrape. She?ll have a bump but she doesn?t have a concussion.” She put a cold pack on the bump, carefully, to ease the swelling.

“Why?d she pass out? Why is she still out?”
“I?m guessing it was from her nervous system working over time, the blood, I don?t actually know. We won?t know what caused her to be so scared until she wakes up. Which need to be soon. If she?s out more than five much more minutes we?re calling an ambulance. There?s only so much that I can do here.”

“What?s the bruise on her arm, and also the red mark on her face?” I asked, pacing around the room.
“It looks like some slapped her with all the back of their hand, and for the arm, I think she was pulled back. It?s not a bad bruise along with the red mark is already starting to go away. Do you’ve any clue who did this to her?”
“Yeah. It was Jake.” I stated, searching at Cassie as she started to stir. Following some seconds, her eyelids flickered and she opened them and squinted up at us.
She started to sit up but laid back down, grimacing. “What- where am I?” Her voice was hoarse.

“Your in the nurses office sweetie. Do you remember what happened?”
Her face narrowed and she looked like she was concentrating genuinely challenging after which her face cleared. “Yeah I do remember. Jake tried to rape me and when- I tried to- leave, he -grabbed me and I fell- and hit my head- on his bedpost. And he -backhanded me. And I tried- to leave again… I -remember going down -stairs and then -falling… and -everything- was spinning.” Her words were halted and slow like she was struggling with them. Slowly, she sat up and leaned against the wall. “Taylor, I?m sorry I- listened to him. I should-n?t have.” She reached her hand out and took mine. “Forgive me?”

“Of course.” I smiled at her and she smiled back.
“How?s my head?”
“You?ll have a bump, but the bleeding stopped and the swelling is going down. You?ll be fine.”
“Thanks.” Cassie said.

Cassie?s POV
About a half hour later, the nurse let me leave. Taylor picked me up and began walking. “There is no way I?m letting you walk.” He stated. “You may trip and hurt your self.” I smiled and wrapped my arms about his neck.
“I feel we should cease by the deans office. I’ve to tell him what Jake did. Possibly that way if Jake says which you beat him up, the dean will understand and find some way to get Jake kicked out of here.” I stated as I leaned my head on his chest.

“Okay.” He kissed the leading of my head. We walked out of the building. The deans office was only a few feet away. Several kids had been fooling about outside and in the shops. Taylor carried me past a group of boys and into the deans office exactly where he put me in a chair.

We explained everything to the dean and when we finished, he said, “I?ve talked with Jake?s parents in the past about his behavior. We?ve discussed many various things that we could do with him to attempt to help him. He?s a very troubled young man isn?t he?” He sighed. “We?re doing the best we can proper now. Taylor, hitting him was still unacceptable and you are going to have to be punished. I don?t believe expelling you’d very fit this situation so I rather I think it will be beneficial for you to do some community service. See Ms. Brown. She?ll set you up something to do for the week. I?m going to call Jake?s parents and we will figure out one thing. I?ll let you know what the decision is.” With that, he dismissed us.

“Well that?s all taken care of.” I leaned my head against Taylor?s arm as we began strolling towards my dorm. He nodded silently, scooping me up in his arms. The walk was filled with silence and when we reached my dorm, he set me down, kissed my cheek and left, leaving my confused, standing by my door.

After standing there for several minutes, I turned, opened the door and walked into the room. Lucy and Lana were sitting on the floor, watching the tv. “Oh excellent, you?re here. Spill. Now. What happened?” Lucy asked, switching the tv off.

“I don?t wish to speak about it.” I grabbed my pajamas and my bathroom bagged and walked away. As soon as in the dorm bathroom I walked over to 1 of the showers and turned the water on warm. I pulled off the awful dress and stood under the water, all my jumbled confused thoughts slowly drifted away as I let the water pour down on me.