Chapter 12
“How was your therapy session today?” My mother asked. We had sat down together as family to eat dinner and my mother began to ask details about what I had done today. Thankfully, neither of them were informed about my smoking habits.
“It was good,” I replied, narrowing my eyes down to the plate and playing with my food.
“That’s good,” She said to be me before turning back to my father. “She’s really showing some improvements, Carl.”
“Yes, I know. Dr. Wilson is amazing right?” My father asked me and I stopped looking at my food, instead I glared at him and wondered about Dr. Wilson.
He was really amazing to me.
“Yes, he’s really nice,” I smiled.
I giggled and got up from the table before running back inside my room. I was done with dinner and talks about Dr. Wilson made me nervous.
When I stepped inside the room, my phone began to ring. I picked it up from the table and it was Chase. I turned around and closed my door while making sure no one going here while I spoke with Chase.
“Hey, what’s up?” I said as I picked up the phone. .“Ana?” He trailed off. “There is something wrong,”. He sounded worried and tensed.
“What?” I asked while gulping down the lump in my throat. He made me nervous too.
“I got a few pictures,” he said in a stuttering tone.
“What kind of pictures?” I asked while looking myself at the mirror.
I heard Chase breathe loudly before replying to me, “Nude pictures...”
I froze on the spot. “Who’s nudes?” I asked. I haven’t shared my nudes with anyone. I haven’t even taken one with my phone so I wasn’t scared but the poor girl who’s nudes Chase got.
“Yours,” He whispered.
“What the f**k?!” I exclaimed. “What the f**k do you mean by mines? I haven’t ever taken my nudes,” I rolled my eyes in anger and added.
A lot of girls in our school had their nudes leaked in social sites. There wasn’t one person who was behind it all. They were many people. Some of them wanted revenge and some of them wanted money and other valuable possessions. However, I knew I had never taken my nude.
“Yes, they aren’t taken by you. They are other pictures and Rosalie send them to me. I don’t know why! Can you come to my house quick or I’ll come to yours?” He asked with worry lacing in his tone.
“No, I’ll come and see what it is. I’ll be there in 10 minutes,” I replied and after that I cut of the call and grabbed my wallet. Whatever this all was about, it’s going to down because I knew that I haven’t taken a single nude. Unless someone photoshopped it or took it by themselves and leaked it.
But I haven’t gotten naked in front of anyone. The society I live in extremely secured and no stranger is allowed to come inside. No one in this place can take my pictures. Moreover, I have never gotten naked anywhere else. Not even in school because I had marks and I didn’t want to show them to anybody.
I walked out of my bedroom and rushed downstairs, almost tripping. I was about to leave the door but my mother called out my name.
Fuck
“Yes?” I asked as she stopped me.
“Where are you going?” My mother questioned. I rightly closed my fists together and gulped. What was I going to say for this?
“I’m going to go drink coffee,” I shrugged. She probably knew that I lied because I sounded like one lying b***h.
“At this time?” My mother asked.
“Yes, I got my periods so I have these cravings. I want to drink my favorite coffee. It just 20 minutes away and Albert can drop me,” I smiled and she nodded her head.
I sighed and walked out of the house. I sat inside the car and ordered Albert to go to Chase’s house. My driver, Albert, knew where I went mostly but he never told my parents for some reason. I begged him and he understood that I was a little child with too many needs.
“Thank you, can you pick me up like 30 minutes later?” I asked. “Actually, I’ll ring you up,” I added before walking out of the car. It was 10 PM and it was quite dark out here.
I watched the car fade into darkness and then only I went ahead and rang Chase’s house bell.
I waited for a moment and then the door was opened by his mother.
“Oh, hello, Ana. How are you?” She asked as she pulled me into an unwanted hug. I was tended and miserable because I didn’t know one of my nudes were leaked.
“I’m fine, thank you,” I smiled as I pulled back.
“I heard about what happened? Is everything alright now? If you need any kind of help, you can always come to me,” His mother said. She was talking about the suicide attempt that I never did.
“Thank you,” I smiled. Before the conversation could continue, Chase stepped down from the stairs and saw me.
“Come up,” He ordered and I said my goodbye to his mother before running behind him upstairs.
His parents were really sweet, much better than mines.
“What happened?” I asked Chase as he took me inside his room. He picked up his phone from the table and made a few clicks. His lips were lined together straight and he looked sort of mad.
Suddenly, he flipped the phone around and showed me the pictures he was talking about earlier.
“What is this?” He asked.
I froze. My heart stopped beating for a moment and I gasped out of fear. My whole body was paralyzed for a minute and then my eyes began to brim with tears.
“How? How did you get this picture?” I asked as I was about to grab the phone but Chase backed away before I could even reach it.
“You tell me!” He exclaimed.
“How did you get?” I repeated the question again. He grabbed my wrist that was hanging in the air and pushed me back aggressively.
“You have s*x with someone and I didn’t even know?!” He whispered in a low tone so no one else could hear it.
“I didn’t,” I sobbed as I shook my head repeatedly. “I didn’t, please delete them!” I begged.
“Tell me? You didn’t have s*x with anyone right? So what is this picture?” He asked. It was a picture of a hand placed on my naked chest and my eyes closed, and my head c****d to the left.
“Tell me, Ana?” He asked again.
“That’s not me. I didn’t have s*x with anyone, please, just delete it!” I begged again but he wasn’t listening to me, he was just getting more mad.
“That’s not you? It’s is clearly you. You only have a mark on your collar bone and so does this w***e in this picture!” Chase exclaimed.
I rushed towards him and grabbed the phone away from his hands. “I’m not a w***e!” I exclaimed as I tapped delete on the picture.
Another picture showed up, and it was the same one except for a different pose. I deleted that too and then another one slide in. I deleted all the three pictures he had gotten from Rosalie and then I smacked the phone on his chest.
“If you think I’m a w***e, then good for you!” I said before walking away from his bedroom. I went downstairs with tears coming down from my eyes and Chase’s mother noticed me.
“What happened?” She questioned as she placed her hands on my shoulder. The back of my hand reached up to my mouth and I controlled my loud sobs by pressing them back down.
I stomped out of the house as she kept calling my name behind me. I didn’t look back, not even once and I escaped away into the dark streets.
I guess for a very long time I stayed out in the evil, rotten streets and got several stares from creeps. I wrapped my hands around my shoulder and clasped myself tightly as the weather was getting colder.
A few droplets fell down from the sky, and one landed on my nose. Then I realized what was happening and that I needed to go back home. I couldn’t get those dirty pictures of my head. I just couldn’t forget it.
No matter how many times I tried to forget it, it came back to me. Everyone bought it back to me and now it seemed impossible to get rid of my past.
My phone began to ring when I was about to walk down the empty alley. It was my driver who was calling me.
“Hello?” I said as I picked up the phone. I gulped down the lump in my throat and avoided any extra tears. I didn’t want to cry in front of my driver.
“Yes, it’s 11, where do you want me to pick you up?” My driver asked.
I turned around, and I was nowhere. It was just an empty alley and a huge park behind me. I had been walking for the past hour so I had no idea where I had reached.
“I’ll send you the location, I don’t know where I am,” I said.
“Okay, I’ll be waiting,” He then cut of the call. I switched on my location services and send him the location of where I was.
In 10 mins, he was there in front of the alley. He got out of his car and got me an umbrella.
“Are you alright, Miss Ana?” He questioned as he placed the umbrella above me. It began to rain and I was a bit wet but nothing to severe to get me sick.
“Yes, I’m fine,” I said as I stepped inside the car and dried myself off.
The driver drove away from the alley to back to my house.
“Albert, can you do me a favor?” I asked as we were about to reach my house. We entered the lavish society we were living inside.
“Yes?” He asked.
“Could you not tell my parents that I was with Chase?” I asked.
“Of course, but you weren’t with Chase, I picked you up from the alley.” He stated.
“Yes, I know, don’t say that too!” I exclaimed and he nodded his head. I sighed out of relief, at least there was someone who I could trust with my truth.
The car went towards the entrance of my house and I was dropped off. I walked inside the house and ignored everyone around me. I wanted to rush upstairs before anyone stopped me.
“Ana!” My father said from a distance and I froze on the spot. I turned around and found him with my mother.
“Yes?” I came back down from the stairs and stood in front of them.
“Where were you?” My father inquired.
“I told mother, I went to drink coffee,” I shrugged. Their unnecessary behavior and extra—care was going to end me.
“And you’re all wet,” My father trailed off.
“Yes, Albert parked a bit away so I had to walk a small distance but nothing too much,” I said and he nodded his head, believing in me. “Can I go upstairs now?” I asked.
“Yes, you may go,” he replied before turning around to my mother.
I sighed and walked upstairs quietly. I went inside my room and then the storm began. My heart was trembling and so were my hands, those pictures flashed into my head again and again. I couldn’t remove them from my head.
Why was this happening to me?