The banging on my front door is what woke me up out of a decent sleep.

This better be damn.. My words die away as I see the woman before me.

Lara..what happened…

Dry blood cakes the corners of her mouth and nose, the front of her dress is torn and she has the beginnings of a nasty black eye.

How could you Alice..how could you hide this from me….

The brunette storms inside and I turn wondering what in the ***** happened to her.

Calm down and tell me what your talking about, did you get in a fight or something?

She looks at me with such hurt rage filled eyes that I have to turn my gaze away from her.

Why didnt you tell me, Why did I have to find out from him?

What, oh god she didnt go to Conrad for answers did she?

What..what did he do to you?

Tell me god damn it, you tell me know why didnt you tell me that he raped Dana?

I stand in my living room and for the first time in my life I am at a lose for words.

I..come on lets go sit down, Ill try to explain.

Together we take a seat, how can I explain it to her when I dont really understand it myself.

Lara I need you to tell me something first..did he…rape you?

She looks at me tears threaten to fall but shes fighting hard to hold them back.

He damn sure tried, but as you can see I put up one ***** of a fight. He got pissed and started hitting me…but Im ok I got away before he could….I dont wanna talk about that right now….Tell me is Dana ok?

I dont know…shes..hurt Lara.

Why didnt she tell me? She asks herself more than me.

She thinks you wont love her anymore..we tried to tell her that.

We she yells cutting me off Who else knows, how many other people know.

Lara please just calm down, you have no ideal how hard its been for us, keeping this from you was Danas decision and we had to respect her wishes…shes been through enough…she didnt need more heart ache.

Heart ache is that what you think Id give her…

No I dont think that at all but you have to understand it wasnt mine to tell.

Lara looks at me, tears stream now, I want to help her but dont know how.

I have to see her Alice, I have to tell her I love her and that nothing he did will ever change that. Then I have to go to the police that ***** is going to pay for what he did to her and to me…….

God how did this get so far out of hand, why didnt the police do there damn job and arrest that piece of garbage?

When Dana finds out that he tried to rape Lara its going to kill her.

Come on lets go. I say and as we make our way out I wonder how were going to tell Dana and I pray that this doesnt destroy her.