- Theme: You are Ethan's little sister & Damiano's girlfriend

- TW: alcohol, drugs, violence, sexual abuse, rape

3 months before the breakup

Although it's only afternoon, you came home from a tough day at work. Aris your boyfriend wasn't home yet. After making yourself some food, you decided to go to sleep. The moment you lay down in bed, you heard the front door. It was Aris. He comes into your bedroom and greets you before putting his stuff down. After he locked the door he came over to you, lies on top of you and started kissing you roughly. "What are you doing, Aris I'm tired", you replied. "You know our little secret: You do what I say." You've never seen Aris so threatening and out of fear you followed his demands. Without you noticing, tears streamed from your eyes. "Shhhhh" (y/n) no one will hear you", he covered your mouth with his hand until you can't breathe anymore.

Suddenly you hear a familiar voice in the house, "(y/n) are you here", it was Victoria. You looked at Aris and quickly reply, "I forgot to tell you I have a appointment with Vic." He looked at you with a deadly glare, "you know our secret, get dressed!" Aris put on his jogging suit and went downstairs. "Hi Vic, (y/n) is upstairs changing. She blotted her clothes while eating, inept as she is" Aris's smiled voice rang out. Victoria's eyes rolled and she replied sternly, "for you still Victoria, you know what I think of your relationship. I am only doing this for (y/n)." Victoria's eyes fell on you as you came down the stairs. With a quick step you walked up to Vic and hugged her. "Hi have you been crying or why are your eyes so red?", Victoria asked. "No my allergies hit hard today." "And is that blood," her eyes dropped and became concerned. Aris watched you all the time with his deadly gaze. With a shock you look at yourself at the large blood stain on your pants, "Ohh I must have gotten my period while eating." Aris pushes himself to the forefront, "Please excuse us Victoria, but (y/n) needs to rest. She's had a rough day." You agree with Aris with a nod of your head. "(Y/n), are you sure everything is Okey?", Victoria asked again to overcome her insecurity. A soft "yes" came out of your mouth. "Even though I hate to leave you behind, but if you really want to. Contact me when you have time again.", after that Victoria left the house. You sprayed her disappointment after this rebuff.

Breakup

You had two beautiful years of relationship but towards the end you couldn't take it anymore. You only realized how bad it really was at a later stage. Unlike your first relationship, this one with Aris was very toxic. He always wanted to know where you were, with who, how long and so on. The trust from him was very deep. Towards the end he restricted you, but he was able to flirt with four girls in one night at the club. After you gave him an ultimatum of one month to mend his ways, the breakup happened. Aris did not believe until then that you really dare to take this step.

After the brakeup Aris wanted to talk to you again. You agreed and told him clearly that a relationship is no longer an option for you. But you can be friendly with each other. This actually worked very well.

5 months after the breakup

You were partying with three friends of yours in the city. Shortly after three o'clock you were pretty tired and decided to go home. Thalita, Rea, Tara and you took the bus back to the old town of Rome. You said goodbye to everyone and turned on your headphones since you had the longest way to go. You got off the bus, walked along the deserted streets & enjoyed the cold autumn air. Suddenly you felt you were being watched, was someone following you? You panicked, turned around and all of a sudden he was standing there right in front of you....

"Aris, what are you doing here, you scared me!", you look him in the eyes, as you noticed how he was looking at you in detail. You can see his head explode with thought. Quickly he lifts his gaze to my face, "will you come with me to the club?" "Aris I'm tired, I want to go home, I still have 20 minutes to go." He thought for a moment and decided to answer, "please just one drink, we haven't seen each other for so long. You can stay the night at my place too." "Okay" I replied, "just one drink, but I'm still going to my place." Aris dragged you to the nearest club, one street over.

Arriving at the club, you are heading straight to the bar. You order two mojito, which the waiter put on the bar counter. Aris pushed your drink over to you, with his hand over the opening. Normally you are always very careful about drugs but with this grip you were not attentive. With a twist you stirred the straw in your drink and started a conversation with Aris.

"And do you still play football regularly?", I started the conversation. "It depends, right now I have a lot to do at work. And with you, do you still listen to the same songs?", he inquired. The conversation went from topic to topic for about 15 minutes.

Suddenly your extremities felt heavy, every little light seemed brighter than ever causing extreme headaches, in your vision everything is coming at you and you felt nauseous. "(Y/n), are you okay, can I help you?" Aris asked. He grabbed your arm and pulled you out of the club. In front of the club, he made caring looks and said, "It would be better if you went to my house to rest me." Even if you didn't want to go to his place, you couldn't do anything about it.

When you were in the house, Aris took you to the kitchen and gave you something to drink, even though this was very difficult for you, you drank as much as you could. From one second to the next you became powerless & couldn't control your body anymore, you sank down inside yourself. Before you hit the ground, Aris' hands hold you. He held you with one hand on your shoulder blades & the other under the back of your knees. Aris carried you up the stairs like a small child, into his bedroom. You tried to say you didn't want this or to get loose with punches, but you had no strength left.

You used to feel at home in this room, but today everything was different. He pushed you against the wall and start kissing your neck roughly, so that your head started to hurt from pressure against the wall. "Stop Aris I don't want this" you scream with the last of your strength, but his hand went around your throat and started to choke you. "Do you really want me to have to show you in pain what a good girl is. You're going to have the best sex of your life tonight and when I've put my dick inside you, Damiano definitely want anything more from such a bitch like you, fucked by someone else." With these words you began to cry and wished Damiano by your side. He threw you on the bed. Slowly he undressed you before admiring your body with pleasure, kissing, licking and groping you. The worst moments of your life began and seemed to have no end.

All your attempts to defend yourself or to make yourself noticeable had failed. You were trapped in a nightmare. You just let it happen so that it would pass as quickly as possible. Sometime after the 3 hours of sex he left the room and you fell asleep.

The next morning you woke up naked on a strange bed. Your body ached from exhaustion and injuries. Last night's scenes went through your mind in fragments, you understood the searching looks in front of bar yesterday. You suppressed the images and sounds and with your last strength. You searched for your clothes, which you finally put on. When you saw your cell phone, you wanted to reach someone, but your battery was dead. When you wanted to sneak out, Aris suddenly stood behind you and you started a discussion.

Victoria's POV

I was the first one to get up this morning. I was sitting at the kitchen table in the Må house, checking the new messages on my phone. Suddenly the doorbell rang, so unsuspectingly I went into the hallway and opened the door. Rea & Tara looked at me with a put up look "Hey, we're (y/n)'s friends, she left her key in my bag last night after partying." Before I had the change to answer anything, I heard Damiano rushing through the house searching. "Mi amore, are you here?" Then he also came to your entrance if he will find you there. "Buon giorno, have you seen (y/n)?" "No," I answered quickly, "I thought she was sleeping at your room or at Ethan's she is not either?" "No, I looked all over the house for her and when I woke up that night after four o'clock she wasn't here either" Damiano spoke thoughtfully. "So (y/n) was supposed to be home around quarter to four yesterday" the two friends shared before they had to leave for college. We went inside the house and call upset Ethan and Thomas. 

The four of them start worrying about you. They called every possible contact and place, but nowhere were you. "What if something happened to her?", said Ethan, almost crying. Victoria paced up and down the living room until she saw Aris' key in the hallway. Memories from the toxic relationship raced back to her, however, no one had any idea how bad the situation really was. "I know where (y/n) can be, Ethan come with me. Dami, Tommy you stay here in case she does come home!", yelled Victoria, storming out of the house with Damiano.

"Where are we going?", asked Ethan confused when they were in the car. "If this guy (y/n) did something, he will pay for it I promise. I've always been against this relationship!" "You mean she's with Aris, her ex", Ethan added in wonder. Before the conversation could continue, they reached the house. From far away they heard the argument and your voice.

Aris: "Well where are you going, didn't you like it?"

(y/n): "Please let me go, I'll keep our secret".

Aris: "Wow you got it, that doesn't mean I'm going to let you go!"

Meanwhile Victoria opened the door and she went in with Ethan.

Ethan: "Keep your hands off my sister!"

Ethan went after Aris and locked him in the bathroom. Before he informed the police, Damiano and Thomas. Victoria ran to you and hugged you as you burst into tears and collapsed in her arms. "Shhh, honey everything will be fine. Try to breathe with me." You began to match your breathing rhythm to Victoria's. Ethan also joins in and hugged you. "baby was just happened I'm so sorry." After a few minutes you caught your breath. "Do you want to tell us what exactly happened between you and why you didn't come home?" asked Victoria shyly. You tried to speak but you didn't succeed "whh-ee-n ye-sss-t-eer-day Iiii...", the tears overwhelmed you and you rested your head on Victoria's chest. In the meantime, the police also arrived and took Aris into custody. The police informed you about the further proceedings, that you have to make a statement at the police station, that's all you understood. Your thoughts had other priorities. "I think it is best if we go home and talk further there", Victoria added.

During the whole trip, you were in Ethan's arms. Your brother's strong arms were the only thing that gave you at least a little support at that moment. Ethan carried you into the apartment. When you entered the living room, you saw Damiano crying in Thomas' arms. When he saw you, a stone obviously fell from his heart, but the worry was not over. "Mi amore, what happened?" You drank a sip of water from the glass Thomas brought you and began to tell:

"We came back from the city and then I met Aris. I got involved in the club and then he must have given me drugs. At his house he took me to the bedroom and we we had, I didn't want that" you explained sobbing with deep breaths while everyone listened to you attentively.

"He did it again, how disgusting can a human be!" suddenly Victoria cried out. Everyone looked at her "WHAT, What do you mean with again?", Damiano asked confused. "B-but why do you know that?" you asked Victoria confused as you burst into tears again.

"I can put one and one together now. That day I came to you, you were in the bedroom and you didn't hear me. You were obviously having sex. Aris came down and said you spilled food on yourself and needed to change. The food was untouched on the dining table. When you came downstairs you said you had a red face from your allergies. But Ethen is also sure that this is the only season when you don't react and otherwise you have other symptoms. The blood on your pants, if you had just changed, you would have noticed the period, or it would not have come so quickly. That's why you always wanted us to have a key to the apartment. And you have never forgotten a meeting of and, let alone kicking me out of the house or you would never just agree to everything what Aris says. It was stupid of me not to understand and ignore, I was so angry at being kicked out, I'm sorry, Victoria said in tears.

You could see her guilty conscience on her face. "Don't blame yourself," Ethan said, "we all didn't notice." "But how could we have been so inattentive all this time not to notice anything?" echoed Damiano. "But is that all correct what Vic is saying (y/n)?" added Thomas. You couldn't get a word out of yourself, because finally you could let out all the accumulated suffering. You looked Thomas in the eye and nodded enough obviously for everyone to see.

"(Y/n), were there other times you had sex without wanting to?" asked Vic with an uncertain look. You thought for a long time. "Please (y/n), tell us", Ethan added. "I don't know," you answer. "Try to remember, please (y/n)"; Thomas almost couldn't look you in the eye. "So now when I have my period and I don't feel well, for Dami's interpretation that's a no, with Aris it was a YES. When I am tired now, that is a no for Dami's interpretation a no, with Aris it was a YES...", while thinking you noticed how many times Aris raped and abused you, it is frightening. Damiano shared his thoughts, "That's why you were always so withdrawn during sex and would have let me do anything if I hadn't stopped wehen you felt unconftable." Ethan was able to slowly compose himself and once again pulled himself together for one last question "Why didn't you ever tell us?". "I was afraid he threatened to hurt you, or if I made an innuendo in front of you by choice, he hit me." Hearing these sentences from your mouth everyone was shocked by the past events. "Can I go take a shower?" you asked. "(Y/n), we should go to your gynecologist first, this guy must get the full punishment. Then you can go take a shower and we still have to go to the police", Vic explained. Damiano sighed at the thought of what lies ahead. You start to cry again, you didn't want to go to the gynecologist or the police. "(Y/n), we are here", Ethan took you in his arms. "Vic can you come with me to the gynecologist and you guys can come to the police after?" you asked looking around. "Yeah for sure," Victoria replied, "I'll go ahead and call the gynecologist."

After a while, Victoria returned. "Okay, are you ready (y/n)?" Without saying anything, you broke free from Ethan's embrace and walked robotically to the car.

Victoria held your hand the whole time and wiped the tears from your face. When she first saw all the hematomas especially on your inner thighs, scratches and bruises on your breasts, she couldn't hold back the tears either. "Your vagina is very sore and your uterus is inflamed, which led to the bleeding. I'm going to give you an antibiotic, so please take that every day. If it doesn't get better or worse, call us right away. The external wounds will heal by themselves. But you should not have sex until everything is well again. We will send the samples to the lab and I will call you. In two months I want to test your blood for STDs. And (y/n) please get help, you have experienced something terrible that will leave his mark," the doctor said with a sad expression. You nod. "And her," the doctor looked Victoria in the eyes, "please support her and give her the time she needs." "I will do that, thanks for the quick help," Victoria says goodbye.

In front of the police we meet the others. Victoria brings them up to date. The interrogation was terrible, all the questions. For the first time you revealed to yourself and to the others how your relationship with Aris really went. After an hour you could go home.

That evening you all lay arm in arm on the couch and after a while you were able to fall asleep. The situation has to be processed by everyone in the next few weeks. Damiano gave you time to move forward at your own pace. He let you decide and showed that you have the right to control every second in your sex life in everything. Everyone is helping you to regain your self-esteem and get back into the old yet new life.