"I'm so sorry Carmen. I swear I'm so sorry. Please forgive me..." headmistress black hugged me tightly. She's been apologizing for the past five minutes about what happened.

"If I hadn't been so naive I could've prevented this. I'm so sorry this is all my fault." She said. She sounds very genuine from what I'm hearing. Is this really some of her fault...? Maybe yes partially, but I learned from my past actions I shouldn't hold grudges on people. Because we all know where that gets me.

"It's okay...you didn't know...and I just didn't speak up until it was too late..." I give her a comforting smile. I wipe off a tear that is rolling down her cheek. She smiles at me sweetly and hugs me again. "I promise to you I'll make this up to you Carmen..."

We let go of each other and turn around to see the police behind us. I take in a deep breath. I can finally give in my statement...which will hopefully put Austin away for good. They currently have him in custody so I feel safe saying these things.

"Are you ready Ms. Aguilar?" A policeman says taking out his notepad and a recording device. I nod my head shakily. I look at Zane who gives me a reassuring look which helps me calm my nerves a little. The policemen lead me to another room and offer me a seat. I sit down and take another deep breath.

"To reassure you, Ms. Aguilar, we have Austin in custody and whatever you say here will be between us and whatever charges you'll put against him. You're safe now so whenever you're ready you may begin."

I take another deep breath and begin telling them everything Austin has ever done to me. They write down things and listen to me carefully.

Once we are done they thank me and reassure me again I am safe. I leave the room and quickly go to Zane who gives me a big hug, "You're so brave, Carmen," I snuggle into his chest for a bit taking in his scent. It helps me relax a lot.

He picks me up and takes us to sit in one of his mom's chairs in her office. She takes a seat in her chair, "You're father should be here any moment Zane." I hear her say. We wait in the office silently waiting on his father to get here.

He finally arrives after a few minutes. I stand up and sit in a chair by Zane taking his hand into mine. His touch feels amazing against my hand. "What's the meaning of all of this? Why did you say this was urgent?" Zane's father asks. Headmistress Black motions for him to sit down and he does.

Zane stands up letting go of my hand, "I want out of this stupid arranged marriage, I'm not asking I'm demanding," He stands tall not letting his eyes off of his father. His father shakes his head, "We already talked about this Zane,"

"Yeah we talked about it before we found out my soon-to-be wife is a psychotic bitch," He says to his father.

"And what proof do you have?" He questions relaxing into his chair. I clear my throat and stand up next to him, "he has me as proof...because I'll be taking Olivia to court,"

His expression changes from calm and relaxed to worried and shocked at what I said.

Zane explains to him everything that happened and how Olivia is responsible. Once he was done I pitched in my side of the story and explained all the things she did to me apart from bringing Austin back into my life.

"I...I don't know what to say..." He gulps staring at me and Zane. He blinks then looks and Zane giving him an apologetic look. "I'm sorry son..." He says defeated. "I'm so so sorry..."

"Father I would say it's fine...that it's okay...but it's not. It'll take time for me to forgive you...a lot of time maybe even," Zane's father looks at him knowing he had messed up big time with his son. That he knows he lost his son's trust in him and might never get it back.

"Where is she now...?" Zane's father asked.

"In custody getting questioned," Zane says back to him coldly. Zane's father nods then looks at me.

"I'm sorry to you as well...I am to blame for this..."He tells me. I just nod my head at him softly.

We talk in Zane's mom's office for a bit about what happened and what's to happen next. Zane's father offers me one of their lawyers but I decline his offer. I already have a lawyer who's already starting on the case.

We say our byes and then Zane and I head out. We go back to my dorm room. We just stay in my dorm room for a couple of hours until Zane comes up with an idea, "I wanna take you somewhere," he tells me.

"Where to?" I say looking up from my iPad. "It's a secret..." He gives me a half-smile. I roll my eyes which gets me a look from Zane. "sorry..." I mumble.

"Just go get dressed, into something warm because it'll get cold," He tells me. I nod and go to my bedroom and quickly pick out an outfit.

As soon as I was dressed I put my phone in my pocket and went to Zane who was already waiting for me by the door. He gives me a kiss on the head quickly then we head out to the parking garage.

We get into his car and head out. We leave the campus and Zane takes me to where he wants to take me. On the drive there Zane and I talk about the most random things. We get to the spot in about an hour.

When we get there Zane opens the door for me. I get out and he shuts it behind me. As I get off I notice it's a hiking trail up a little hill. Good thing I brought my old converse...

"Come on it's just a five-minute walk from here," he tells me.

"You're not gonna kill me are you?" I awkwardly laugh.

"You have to wait and see if I do or don't. Now come on," He says taking my hand excitedly and beginning walking. As we walk it's quiet no one is here but us. The leaves and sticks crunch underneath us. It's calming only the noises of the wilderness.

After a couple of minutes of hiking up this little mountain, I get overwhelmed with the beautiful lights of the city. Wow...

Zane stands beside me, "beautiful isn't it?"

"Yeah, it is..." I say taking in this view. We stand there in silence watching the view. I get closer to Zane and rest my head on his shoulder.

After a minute we sit down and just continue. "Zane I wanna talk..."

"About?"

"I want to be honest about what Austin did to me when I and him first started dating..."

"You don't have to if you're not ready..." he gives me a soft expression. I shake my head, "I am ready..."

He nods and tells me to go on.

"I was fifteen when I met him..." I gulp and continue, "He was 19 at the time...took advantage of me and my naiveness..." I say. Zane's Expressions turn stone hard. "We started out as friends...but slowly became more. I thought that he was perfect until he wasn't..."

I take a deep breath and exhale, "He would constantly abuse me...if anything wrong happened in his life he'd blame it on me and sometimes he would take it out of me..."

"He manipulated me...but I was young...and believed all the lies he told me...if I ever had a bruise I would cover it or just tell people a lie about it because I was scared about what he would do to me,"

Zane listens to my every word, "He said he loved me...that he was doing everything he did to me because he cared...he made me do things I didn't want to do Zane..."

"I was just fifteen Zane...and this continued for a year and a half..." A tear starts rolling down my cheek. "The only reason I was able to get away was that some of my friends managed to find out and told my parents who thankfully were able to help me..." I cry into his shoulder.

He rubs my back and hugs me, "Shh it's okay you're safe now..."

"I won't let anybody hurt you...ever again..." He tells me soothing me.

We stay here for another couple of hours until I start to feel sleepy. He notices and we head back to the school.

When we get we head to my dorm room where I get ready for bed, "I'll be back in a bit I'm gonna get pajama from my dorm okay...or do you wanna come with me?" he asks me. I shake no as I brush my teeth. He leaves my dorm room. I quickly finish brushing my teeth then go to my little hidden office and turn my PC on.

I get onto Discord and call Liam.

"WHAT THE HECK CARMEN!?! WHY HAVEN'T YOU BEEN ANSWERING MY CALLS OR TEXT WE'RE ALL WORRIED!" Liam yells through the phone worriedly.

"I'm sorry my phone got taken...then broken..." I say.

"Is that Carmen?!" I hear Jayson say behind Liam. Liam says yes and he comes to yell at me too saying how worried everyone else was. I quickly give them a brief explanation about what happened to me. I love them so much and I feel bad that they were really worried about me.

"I have a question...it's serious," I say.

"What is it?" They say in unison.

"Is uh...that room still open...in the house..." I question in a soft voice. This is something I have to do.

"Yes..." Liam says.

"Okay...can you maybe save it for me...I-" I stop...

"Of course...are you coming...?" Jayson quickly says to me.

"Yeah..." I have to do this for myself...

"Anyways I'll call you guys when I get the chance...I've got to go...but I'm safe now..." I say and hang up the call. I turn my PC off and leave my office shutting it. I go to my bedroom and crawl into bed waiting for Zane.

I turn in the TV to Disney plus abs pick out a movie to watch. I pick out Tangled. I grab my bee stuffy and snuggle with it.

Zane comes in seconds later in a T-shirt and black sweats. He jumps into bed and comes close to me. We snuggle into each other and watch the movie.

We slowly get sleepy and just fall asleep...

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