The Monster You Know
362 Words
But as the echoes of her cries faded into the darkness, Emma was met with only silence, a silence so profound it seemed to swallow her whole, leaving her alone with her terror and the haunting question that lingered in the air.
The silence was quickly, and violently, broken as her pursuer caught up to her. As Emma fought her pursuer, now an assailant, recognition of his identity came to her. How had he found her? She blamed herself for finding herself in this position. She was a highly intelligent and gifted girl, sometimes referred to as precocious. Yet, it was her poor decision-making that provided him with the opportunity to get close to her. True, it was he who should have known better. He was an adult, and a person in a position of responsibility who should never have involved himself with her, a student, let alone one her age.
In what seemed like a predatory growl to her, she heard him menacingly ordering her to stop moving. “Emma, if you don’t stop moving and fighting me you will force me to hurt you”. “Look at me, you have already hurt me”, Emma said as she struggled against him, trying to escape what seemed to her like an inhuman strength coupled with the monster she now saw in the man she so stupidly crushed on and trusted. “Emma, you hurt yourself by running from me”, he growled into her ear, “now, be a good girl, and I won’t hurt you”, he said to her in a voice somewhere between a purr and a growl as he began tearing at her clothes as he fought to hold her in place.
As tears ran down her face, and the pain of being pinned beneath this beast of a man she once foolishly believed in overwhelmed her body, Emma arrived at the opinion that giving in to him would not guarantee her safety. She then let out the loudest scream she believed herself to be capable of as she fought the losing battle of pushing him from her weakened and wounded body.
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