You After Hell

by Manuela Ricci

  "Med, Med is going on? What have you got? "I shake her by the shoulders, his eyes fall to me but it really is as if they had fallen into the darkness, she is not here with me at this moment is as enraptured in another reality and I just see her current state to recognize the one in which I found her that night.

  Chapter

  26

  Medyson

  "Believing is not to be trusted.

  Loving is not bear.

  Living is not satisfied "

  That name can not be him, no, it can not be. My body slides along the wall without me has control. They are paralyzed, locked, just like that night, everything in front of my eyes, this is where I feel it, I sense his filthy hands everywhere.

  "Do not touch me" Cry in my head, but it is useless ...

  Her hands touch me, inspire me and I can not move, can not speak. I see his hazel eyes watching me with lust, that look that stripped me of all my modesty.

  His hands making their way on my body taking possession of that which does not belong. But he does not stop, beats me, ripping my clothes and I tremble, scream and I wriggle without being able to save me. The heart pounds in his chest, his breath on my face panting with pleasure when his every movement a part of me dies, is far from reality. The pain wears me, it is the space in the body and mind. It creeps in the deepest part of me taking root.

  "Med, what happens? Med they are "

  A voice, that voice calling me, but I do not see anyone. I see the room, the room number 23. Yes, that is, the walls are green water, to the ceiling the fan propellers turn over his head. The hard, I follow the movement, so maybe everything ends, everything goes I try to reassure me. I turned and saw the window, but then comes a full facial pain, put my hand on his cheek that I feel on fire. I have not cried this time, or at least I do not remember.

  "Shit Medyson, they're me, Zac, look at me"

  Zac! Zac is here, so why not stop him? Why not help me. "Help me .... Save me! Do it to end, do everything to end ... please do not leave me ..." I do not hear her answer, I called, but do not see it, he's not here, there's just me and he, Eddy rises and pours on my belly ending my torture. Dirty in body and soul, rest lying on the bed, lifted the clothes that show off my body.

  He looks at me in silence, lifting settling and sits looking at me. I feel his eyes on me, I want to get up but it is as if this bed had chained me. "You did good small", his voice comes hitting me with more violence of the blows received earlier.

  The walls begin to clear as if the color were melting and everything slips away, the white appears to my view and immediately after is the view that is staring at me made me realize that it's all over.

  "Z-Zac ... really you?" He holds my face in my hands, I see the tears that cross his face. I feel confused, I was not here, I was there, I was in hell!

  "Shit Med, what made you bastard! I'll kill him. I swear if I find it I'll kill her! "His eyes are bloodshot, they are shaking hands. He pulls me toward him and put my head on his chest. I feel safe, I feel at home, it's weird, but this is the feeling that I perceive him.

  "What happened?" I murmur disoriented, his hand caressing my head, covering the hair of my hair right down his back.

  "Nothing happened. Everything is alright. I'm here now, "I raise my face to meet his gaze.

  "I ... I'm confused ... I was ..."

  "Shhh," laying his finger against my mouth, I do not leave me even for a moment with his eyes. With his thumb stroking the chin, close my eyes and at that exact moment I see Eddy. I avoidance and shooting up, Zac comes to me in small steps.

  "Help me ..." I hiss between a sob and another that appeared without my realizing it. He opens his arms to me, and takes another step, nods his head and reassures me.

  "I do not leave you, but I have to say everything, Med”

  Zac

  I do not answer and I do not insist, I'm happy that you face wrapped in a hug. Supporting his chin on her head and I keep it close to his chest.

  I still can not believe everything that came out of his mouth. All the pain has passed, the room number, he touched her, beat her, moaning with pleasure against her she cries of pain.

  Medyson was ahead of me, but it was not there, he relived it all, every moment, every second and as he relived described him, as if talking to herself, but in reality his thoughts were transmuted into words.

  Words that my heart would never want to hear. It all started in a moment, I still can not comprehend what or who ... wait, she appointed a certain Eddy, yes, my phone, as I spoke, maybe it was that. Who has reduced so you must call Eddy, there is no other explanation for his instinctive reaction to pronounce that name.

  The I lie down on the bed, tells me nothing and I remain at his side until he falls asleep. I rise careful not to wake her up and leave the room.

  In the hallway Noha meeting.

  "What the fuck are you doing here?" He thunders, and I honestly would do me unload my anger on him, but it would not be fair. One thing is certain and that is that she loves her seriously.

  "I went back to see it and. ..."

  "E. ... what?" He presses.

  "Something happened, had as a crisis, it seemed that it was no longer in his room, but the one where they raped her," I explain, I see her crumble gaze in amazement, I continue to tell him everything that has happened, the name incessantly kept repeating, without realizing it, every word that came out of his mouth and I was engraved in the mind.

  "Now where are you going?"

  "I found it on Sunset Blvd, may not have walked a lot as it was low that night, so check the hotels that are on the way ..." I explain to Noha.

  "How do you do? Who knows how many Eddy may have stayed there that night, "this makes me.

  "In a room number 23 of September 19?" I say decided, because that night remained etched in my memory as it remained in her. Its slender body defenseless, his gray-blue eyes that begged for help.

  "You, you remember the date? Well 'then everything changes, maybe we can fix the bastard. I'm coming with you! "I'm not enthusiastic about his presence, but perhaps it might be useful to me.

  We leave the clinic after doing this the Med sponsors what had happened.

  Once on the Sunset Blvd point to the exact spot where I had seen. Noha park the car and walk the walk on.

  "Let's start from here," I say pointing to the first hotels that are making the way back.

  "Let me do the talking," says Noha, with his usual air of dad's son. Will not let me counter that is about to enter, go straight to the reception, where a girl is behind her desk at hitter with fingers on the computer keyboard.

  "Please can I help?" Politely question.

  "Look, I should question. An old friend of mine was here in the city on September 19. I wondered if he had stayed in your hotel room number 23 "

  "The reason for such interest?" Noha leans toward her with making towing, the girl seems to fall into it and after a few moina reveals that there has been no Eddy recorded in their hotel. We continue like this for another four hotels, each one, depending on the situation that is created invent ever more absurd excuses, but the answer is the same.

  "I begin to think that maybe it is registered under a different name ..." I say with defeat air, may not have come all this way in the state where it was.

  "We go here and see you," I nod and we enter the last hotel, the Millennium, the reception we find a man, which will not allow us to showcase the seductive arts of Noha.

  "I'm speaking," I whisper, I approach and explain the situation.

  "Sorry, we are not required to give certain information," his answer to my request.

  "Not even if it was with a teenager? He wants me to go directly to the police? So I can expose you've got a room to a man with a child who was certainly not a relative? "Suddenly the expression instantly and worried man, I understand that he had hit the mark.

  "I said on September 19?" She asks with her eyes fixed on his monitor.

  "Yes, his name is Eddy
, the room number 23 the" specific. He looks at us both and turns your PC monitor to us. I look from the left of the monitor.

  September 19 - double the number 23- Snyps Eddy

  The more times I read in disbelief at what my eyes have just seen. Eddy Snyps that can actually be the same person?

  "What happens? You're white as a sheet, "he noted Noha as we leave the hotel.

  "I know a Snyps Eddy, it is the lawyer of Sixthyfive Records," looks at me frowning in puzzled way.

  "Wait, Eddy Snyps works at Sixthyfive Records, Richard's company? ... Shit, why did not I think before," says Noha and speeds up, I can not understand what you are referring.

  "Where will you go now? Maybe I am not the same person ... "

  "In fact, there's only one person who can tell us ... Cox»

  Chapter

  27

  Zac

  "Behind the clouds the sun is shining.

  Besides the obstacle, the goal.

  After suffering, happiness. "

  Noha guide ships in congested traffic of the city, heading for Courtney's house. I think and I think back to that name, the person I met in the office of Richard. Can they be the same person? Could Cox knows anything? The images of helpless Medyson flood my mind and the only thing that in spite of the surrounding landscape, I can see

  The broken smile, the fear that is taking away every part of her, and impotence can not help you. These are the things that send me out of my mind.

  "Are you in love with her, right?" Says Noha of a sudden, throwing a look in my direction.

  "Yes," Do not even think about it for a moment, the answer comes spontaneously from my mouth like the most natural thing possible. There are times, there are no fixed ways when the time comes, you feel it is like the perfect track that will pulsing under the fingers, Medyson so, I just pumping through the veins making me crash the heart against the rib cage.

  When your heart pounds in his chest to his eyes, a smile stole, for that gesture so insignificant but for you means everything ... yes, I think we can define love.

  "Do I understand from the first moment when your looks clashed ... the way you look at it was ... strange, different, something was in that moment I could not understand, but then everything was more clear "comments, strangely I do not sense the tip of acidity I expected.

  "I never stopped thinking about her since that night I saw her in that condition. At first I thought it was normal ... well, I knew what they had done! Then ... But when I saw her at her home, she has always crept into my head more, in a different way, in a way ... "

  "What you can not understand, do you?" He finished the sentence for me, then I have to focus my eyes on him who does not hesitate, and continued nonchalantly, "this is the effect it does, I know him well. ...and that's why I started to not put up with in recent months, "pronounces firmly, I face the other side and admire the avenue with large palm trees, traffic and people walking carefree in the hot sun. I drop there the talk, now we have other things to think!

  We arrive at Courtney's home only ten minutes later and the silence is broken by Noha.

  "Let me do the talking 'nod and reach the entrance. The father's car there and Cox is sitting by the pool, holding a book. He feels like when our steps occur.

  "N-Noha?" Seem surprised to see us together, I would like to comment on his expression, but I will only stay silent as I was asked. In fact, I am increasingly aware of not knowing all this brown-haired girl with the innocence that uses as a front.

  "Listen Cox, are not not break my balls here to put up with your bullshit. Now you tell me who the fuck is this Eddy Snyps before he finds out on its own and in my own way, "the voice of Noha is two higher than normal tones, his jaw clenched in anger, his eyes stare almost in disgust that person one time dear to him.

  "Q-What ... are you talking about?" Wavers in a faint hiss, the voice trembles and eyes do not belie the reaction to pronounce that name.

  "I do not believe it? You know, you've always known? "I begin furious.

  "It is not as you think," advancing toward me with the fear of my reaction.

  "She was isolating from it all, I just gave him the contact. I am not responsible for what happened next, "confesses and tries to reach out to my arm.

  I pulled back, lifting him into the air.

  "So now you believe her? You're not responsible, but you believe her? "Noha paced, and I see that is not exposed, let it continue without interruption.

  "I-I ... I was afraid. I only feared it was true ... I could not look at her, I felt guilty ... "he admits. I laugh bitterly to pronounce his words.

  "She was raped, do you realize? Your best friend was raped because of you! "Cry against his eyes now filled with tears. Step hands on his head in frustration and I can not believe that it can excuse himself so superficially.

  "If you I'd never given his contact none of this would have happened! You understand it? She would look good! Instead you made the bitch, you have abandoned, "he shrugs, as to want to almost be a shield to the apology, I shake my head in dissent.

  "You make me sick" turn my back to leave, Courtney grabs my arm begging. I wriggle out of his grasp and in doing so fell on my ass. In a moment on his face that face appears, raises an eyebrow, tears cease to solcarle the face and begins:

  "If you go away, you're done, he and your miserable life" disgusted spit towards his feet shooting differs with the amazement of my gesture.

  "I'd rather go back to my miserable life, which stand alongside someone like you! It's not worth anything, not even a shag "I turn to leave, but then I still face once and add, 'ah, just to clarify. The few times I have tried to come to bed with you, and I was always thinking only of her "

  Through the avenue of hedges until the Noha machine, his steps follow me, just closes the door asks me.

  "What do you want to do now?"

  "Go to Sixthyfive Records!" I order, start with the asphalt and we take the downhill hairpin tire screeching up to take the road that joins the bay.

  Noha's phone rings, it slips out of his pocket and responds.

  "Yup? Such as? When? "Questions start to burst. Stop the car on the roadside.

  "Shit ...!" His last word followed by a fist against the steering wheel.

  Medyson

  Do not touch me ... Nooo ... give me a break! Shooting down on the bed, I look around, it is day. I do not remember what happened.

  I'm dressed like this morning, so there must be a long time. To my mind the image of Zac back leaning against the jamb of the door then, it is as if my mind could not remember well. I stand up and take off my clothes, I let them fall one by one to the ground.

  I go to the bathroom, I look in the mirror and try to cover my body, I look and I hide from myself at the same time.

  Remember Eddy, he here in this room. I turned away a step and I press my back against the cold wall.

  I shake my head to clear away that thought, then I remember one particular, the call of Zac. Yes, he was here with me, remember the music, we were listening together then gives that name, Eddy.

  I put my hand to my mouth. It can not be him, he can not be returned. I feel miss the air, I run to the bedroom, I bend down and collect my clothing.

  The wear and I leave the room, I walk down the hall and I face every two steps behind me. I have the feeling that someone is following me. It accelerates the pace up to see me run. It slams hard against the panic exit door to open it. I find myself doing the dell'antincendio stairs leading to the roof two at a time. The heart beats stronger and mind tells me to keep running.

  Every step I take I feel closer, yes it's here now and I will continue from where it left off. Small flash clouded my vision. "You were little good", that voice does not abandon my ears is increasingly clear and sharp, his hands wherever you take ownership of my body.

  I see nothing but his face staring at me while moving inside me, eyes half closed with pleasure, her face pouring raises up and those moans against my pleas to stop. A
desperate cry unanswered.

  The head turns, I see the handrail, I reach out to take it but it's too far, farther and farther away from my grasp. Each image is upside down in my sight, followed by a series of dense, in the back, hip, thighs, arms. I feel beaten everywhere, up to the total darkness that envelops me in an endless silence, where the pain ceases and all thoughts with him.

  Chapter

  28

  Medyson

  "What is meant for you

  You will find a way to reach you

  sooner or later"

  One beep that repeats insistently in the head, is the only thing that I perceive. The darkness continues to keep me wrapped him. I would open my eyes, but I feel the fail me strength and give up at the first attempt.

  I feel like when you dream to run, to run away but my legs do not respond to your impulses, do not cooperate and you can not do it. The feeling is the same, even if I can not figure out what he's running away. Maybe just from myself, from the "me" that are now ...

  "Med Hey, can you hear me?"

  "Zac! Where are you?"His voice ... because I feel it but not see it? Why do not you answer me?

  "Shit Med, wake up, do not do this to me," the voice muffled by tears ... I feel almost sobbing, crying? I feel so confused, all is not completely clear to the almost muffled my hearing ...

  "It was a bad fall, but will recover," another voice unknown to me says these words, maybe he's talking about me. I fell? I was .... I was running, up the stairs then ... yeah ... I failed to hold on to the handrail of the stairs ... after, nothing to remember.

  "Why do not you wake up then? Why? "The voice of Zac is a mixture of fear and anger. I guess his eyes, the marked features that define every detail of his profile, his eyes narrow and reach a darker shade of his usual green jade.

  "It depends on her, only her. The exams are all in place, "he answers, what I believe is a doctor. So am I ... I do not want to wake up? Not true, I want .... but I can not. Every single part of my body is like ... locked, motionless, try to concentrate, I would raise my hand ... but ... I can not, not even feel.