After a couple months of dating Richard 'it' happened. The day that crippled Amelia's soul and changed me entirely. 1
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I got a call from Amelia's cell phone at about 11:30 saturday night. I answered it, expecting the worst because Amelia never called this late unless she was drunk or in trouble. All I heard on the other line was muffled conversations and high-pitch sounds. She must be at a party, I thought, with Richard and butt-dialed me. So I hung up the phone and thought nothing more of it. 3
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Did you know that every 2 minutes in America a woman is raped? Fact.5
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At about 3:42 sunday morning I got a call from the local hospital, Amelia was hurt. I didn't ask for details though the nurse on the other line was trying to give me some. I ignored her and hung up the phone. If Amelia was hurt I wanted to get to her first and make sure she was ok, then get the details. It was at this moment that I swore if Richard had anything to do with this that he would be a dead man. Consequences be damned. 7
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Did you know 75% of rape victims require medical care after the attack? Fact.9
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At 3:56 sunday morning I arrived at the hospital and rushed to Amelia's side. She's unconcious and in terrible shape. Her beautiful face was swolen black and blue. Her luscious body, from what I could see, was covered with bite and scratch marks. Her slender wrists had the tell-tale cuts caused by rope-burn. And her legs, her legs were covered with dry blood which was visibly apparent to have came from her inner thighs. I didn't have to ask, she's been raped. God help you Richard if you had anything to do with this, I thought again. 11
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Did you know 28% of rape victims are actually raped by their boyfriends/husbands? Fact.13
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I asked the docter what happened. He tells me in docter-speak that shes been beat, bound, and raped. And that she was dumped at the emergency only entrance. I asked if anyone saw anything and all anyone would say was a black van, one that would probably be done away with in a matter of hours. He tells me shes lucky to be alive. Yes, I thought, whoever did this to her is lucky in that one fact. 15
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About twelve hours later Amelia awoke from her slumber, I'm there to greet her. She asks where she was and I told her the hospital. She immediately started crying, as if the memory of the horrific event flooded back into her brain all at once. I try to consol her but there is no hope, no easy fix. 17
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Once her sobs started to subside I asked her the hard question: "Did Richard do this?"19
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Her eyes immediately widened and screamed, "How do you know!" but the whisper that came out of her mouth was a pathetic "No." I thought she was lying. Hell, I knew she was lying. Richard did this and he would pay with his blood. But I needed more proof before any rash action could be taken. But how?21
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The police came in and asked for the entire story. She said she went to a Romeo's Bar and Grill for a couple drinks, when she met a interesting guy named Bob. And that she remembers seeing something slipped in her drink but not sure what and then just blackness till she woke up here. In the hospital. She is lying out her ass. 23
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Three things wrong with her story. 1) Why would she go to Romeo's Bar and Grill alone if shes dating her precious Richard? 2) There are no interesting guys named Bob. 3) Every girl knows that if you see something slipped in your drink by some guy you just met that you don't continue drinking the liquid. 25
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There was one sure way to prove her story false. I needed to go to Romeo's Bar and Grill myself and ask the bartender, or manager, or everyone, whether or not they had seen Amelia in there, and if they knew this 'Bob'. 27
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The sad thing is, the longer it takes me to get retribution for wrongs committed against me, the angrier I get. The hate just festers inside my soul, creating the perfect mixture of chemical reactions to set of a nuclear explosion of unbridled passion. God have mercy on Richard, I thought, for I shall show none. 29
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"Too much mercy...often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if the justice had been put first and mercy second."- Agatha Christie 31
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