NOTE: TRIGGER WARNING. THIS SCENE CONTAINS RAPE TRAUMA.

Alena

Silence. It felt like I'd done something bad. I'd made Julia relieve a past trauma and now, I didn't know what to say to her.

I didn't even know how to react. She'd been raped and had carried this guilt all by herself. "What...?. How?"

Julia shut her eyes, ever so tightly. "I don't like talking about it but I'll tell you if you come lay down on the bed"

I climbed onto the bed beside her. Then, Julia told me about her past. Her ...