Paws: So lets see...

Amelia: This chapter will hopefully be long

Paws: Lets go!

Chapter 36

Amu's POV

I stood in front of my uncle, the man who kidnapped me and raped me repeatedly from the past weeks. The only thing that separated us was the steel bars that protected me. I couldn't believe I was looking at him in the eyes, the man who took advantage of me. The man I used to trust. The man I used to look up too. The man I used to love. The man I used to love. I couldn't believe what he did to me...I just couldn't comprehend it in my mind. Why me? I mean why...Why am I always being repeatedly raped and abused. Why the pink haired girl? Why did I have to be so unlucky? I couldn't get this in my mind to understand. I mean why was Karma only being a bitch to me? I mean yeah, when I was six I did eat that cookie...But all this for that one cookie? Really?

I glared at my uncle, he just looked down at his feet. His posture was slouched and showed sign of guilt...or as if he just given up. He kept switching foot to foot, not able to just stand still. I wasnt used to this kind of behavior from hI'm, from his type of personality. I wasnt used to seeing my uncle...so vulnerable. It was never in his nature.

Maybe I didn't know him as well as I thought.

I felt hands on my shoulders and jumped up from surprise. My uncle looked up and his face turned to a frightened puppy. He stepped back and continued to look at the pavement. I looked up and saw Ikuto glaring at hI'm. His posture tense with anger, he squeezed my shoulders and I felt like he was going to break me. I moved my hand onto one of his and squeezed lightly, the pressure I felt slowly faded away. He held my hand as we both stared at my uncle. I heard someone cough and we both turned around and saw Aruto standing there in a tux and brief case.

"Trial will be held next weekend." He said and left without another word. Ikuto and I soon followed hI'm out of my unlce's cell and into the fresh air.

The ride home was filled with silence in the air, the only that filled it was the engine of the car. I looked out the window letting my thoughts of my past overflow my mind. I closed my eyes and started to remember the past, feeling the pain I felt back then again. I remember the way each whip felt as it hit my skin, ripping it open letting fresh blood flow through the wound. I remember each slice of the knife as they cut me. I can recall each word they shouted at me, each feeling of hatred that filled their voice. I can still feel their hands on me as they did inappropriate things to me and my body. I can remember and recall each thing in the past that I've been through. I still feel disgust as I feel the ghost like sensations on me.

I opened my eyes once more and looked at the dull sky. The clouds were dark as we drove, it looked like there would be a storm soon. I saw the bright lights of the city that surrounded me. I saw blurry faces, not able to recognize them, all strangers in my eyes. I was a stranger to them, as they were to me. No one knew each other on the streets, we were all people who felt pain and pleasure. We were all human.

I looked at the review mirror and Ikuto and I shared a look. He stared deeply into my eyes as I did the same, we shared a soft smile together and soon looked away.

By now everyone knew about what happened to me and where I've been. There will be a trial soon, itll be the same like last tI'me...Except different people. I wasnt up against my parents, but my uncle. I'm the victI'm again, like always. I will have to present my case in front of the jury with the help of Aruto. I will have to look into everyones apologetic eyes once more. I sighed and looked down at my lap.

Everyone may know of what happened to me, but no one knows about what happend with me and Ikuto. That would be a whole different story with everyone else. That story I'm not so keen on sharing yet, I mean that's private stuff. How can I tell Aruto and Souko that I'm in love with their son and he feels the same way about me? How can I tell the two people who gave me a new life and home - technically Ikuto gave me a home but that's beside the point - that I'm in love with their son. How? I have no idea and I don't believe Ikuto and I are going to be telling them anytime soon. Plus, I'm living with this boy, we're under the same damn roof. This makes this situation even worst. I'm living in the same house of the guy I'm in love with. Everyone thinks we're more like brother and sister and nothing more. So now it makes it seem like this is incest which is really weird because I've had enough of that. If everyone knows now, everyone will be questioning me, which I get enough of everyday already. I know keeping our relationship isn't what most people would do, but I don't mind doing it. Our relationship, for now, will be on the down low. Which I am okay with, we'll tell them when we're both ready, but for now our relationship will be on the down low.

Most girls wouldn't want to keep the relationship they are in a secret, but honestly I'm not like most girls. I'm proud to be different and I guess I embrace it. I've been through situations most people haven't even been through. I know I'm not like most girls, and I don't mind.

We soon arrive at the house in silence and enter. I slumped down onto the couch and closed my eyes, trying to relax my mind about everything. I felt the couch sink down a little and peaked to see Ikuto. I laid my head on his lap and slowly drifted off to sleep.