Antonella Two weeks later You know the feeling of falling in a dream while you’re asleep? Coming to my senses was sort of like that, more excruciating than I expected. For a moment, I’d been disoriented, the sound of beeping machines and the smell of antiseptic jarring me. I knew I wasn’t fully conscious, the dark memories of the last few hours rushing in, making it hard to come back from. It felt like a fever dream, but the nauseating pain in my body proved that it was very much real. The back of my head pulsed as my chest caved in until I was drowning in my thoughts. The sharp slashes of the knife, the humiliating feeling of being f**k by two different men, watching them do s**t me nearly to death while I was numb to the bone and helpless. “Br..uce. . . ” I didn’t know if I wa

