You Saved Me Once Book 1 novel Chapter 48

When I finally came to it, I was in another frat boys’ room, this time laying on their bed. However, now Rochelle is right beside me, holding my hand. The room was almost pitch black, but I could still see her, Adam, Lorene, and a college boy that looked familiar.

It was the guy from earlier, the one that was with Rochelle. He smiles forcedly at me, almost in pity. When Adam notices that I’m up, he rushes over to me, with both joy and sadness. He’s been crying, he’s wiping tears off his cheeks now.

“Alex.” Was all he could say to me.

I was able to make up a smile, not assuring him that I was okay, but letting him know I was happy to see him.

The room went quiet again, I felt like everyone was staring at me, even though they were. It took me a while to make out any words, when I finally did the mood changed.

“Where’s Hayes?” I ask.

The room is quiet again, a dark quiet as if something had hap-pened. I look at Rochelle, on the verge of tears.

“Rochelle?” I cry. She looks away before looking at the college boys whose room we bombarded.

That was enough to have him leave the room, then follows Lorene, then Adam. But I knew he’d be right outside the door. It was now just Rochelle and I.

“Rochelle. I’m sorry.” I break out into a heavy cry. She sits on the bed to comfort me. Rubbing my back again and again.

“I’m sorry.” She says to me, before embracing in a hug.

“Is this still the 3rd floor?!” I start to panic.

“Jay is a freshman, so he’s on the 1st floor.” She states.

“Alex, what did he do?” She asks.

“Nothing Rochelle, I’m fine. I-I just got a little too drunk, and he tried to take advantage of me. But you saved me.” I start crying again, she wipes my tears.

“Okay.” She smiles at me.

The room is silent, when Rochelle makes an unexpected con-fession.

“I think I’m a nymphomaniac.” Rochelle states. I want to laugh, but there’s dark tone to it, its heavy honesty scared me.

The room is quiet again, but Rochelle seems uneasy. The longer the silence, the more I see her keeping something in, it scares me. I’m scared that it might be about Hayes.

“Ryan….” She goes to say but stops halfway.

“I knew Ryan, back in middle school.” She says. As soon as she says that my stomach drops.

“Remember Justin?” She ask. I nod my head, but my stomach is pulsing.

Justin was her high school boyfriend, when she was only a middle schooler.

“Yeah. He raped me…So did some of his friends.” She bluntly states, but I could hear pain and memories resurfacing.

I look at her, not knowing what to do. I didn’t want her to hurt herself with memories from her tragic past. I didn’t want to feel that. I try to call her name, but she continues. The next thing she said, broke me.

“Yeah…..Ryan was one of them.” She sniffs.

Coldness turns me numb, the room somehow got darker, Ro-chelle was fading right in front of me. I lost all sense, just the intense rolling chills coating my body, felt them inside my spine. My stomach couldn’t rest, it kept beating, in pain. I couldn’t produce any words, just tears. The pain was too much for both of us, I just started crying in her arms.

“He put his fingers in me…I-I begged him to stop but he just kept doing it, kept kissing me, touching me, grabbing me. Then he pushed me against the counter, on my stomach…..and pulled down my pants…” I stop, because I’m out of breath, I can barely breathe. Ro-chelle is comforting me. I force a breath, a nerving swallow, but at least I could breathe again.

“If you would’ve entered any later….” I fade into flashbacks.

Rochelle taps me back, with a hug. When she lets go, I look at her and smile, a genuine smile. She saved me more then she knows.

“It’s okay to not be okay Alex.” She cries.

She helps me to stand up, for the first time in 30 minutes standing up felt weird. I wasn’t drunk anymore, but the trauma took a toll on my body, everything was still vibrating, and my insides were sore.