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He reaches out to steady me, but I don’t want his help I’d rather fall flat onme is an effectiveto hurt you"

Yeah, I ht believe that if I didn’t still feel the iers around my biceps From the way it aches, I’o back to my room I need to call my mom" I repeat the info with the hope that it will sink into his thick skull

How the hell did I get ht Harvey was a nice, haruy--probably because he reminds me of Remi’s BFF, Max, ouldn’t hurt a fly I even wrote off the creepy way I saw hiirls as nervousness because he lacked social skills It never occurred toon But obviously that wasmistake Turns out Harvey’s plans include a late afternoon fk fest, one I’ into a rape fest if I don’t cooperate

And I’ to show fear, either Not to this asole who has delusions of being a player It otto learn?--but I’et , I start to reat care not to touch hiot a teasing same, but I don’t want to play Not now Not with him

"Come on, Harvey I don’t have tiht"

The first stages of fear work their way through the mad "How do you knohat plans I have?"

"I asked around I wanted to make sure you were free to have dinner withwith your car?" I ask as all the pieces coether in my head

He looks down, pretends to be embarrassed "I just wanted an excuse to talk to you"

Fuck Every nerve ending I have is standing up in alar heart and sweating pal up insidehard to breathe, hard to think I’ve been here before, knohere this is going to end up if I don’t get him away from me

I want to make a run for it, but I’ if I try to walk too fast, and the last thing I want right now is to be on the ground with Harvey aboveto appease hi hat he wants "I skipped lunch, so I’"

He smiles triu It ue I don’t voice any of theh Not out here where no one can hear iant ape and his disgusting libido As soon as I’ hi out until I’ve practiced all those self-defense

There’s no way this is happening to o around Harvey a second time, and this time he lets me pass The panic recedes and I start to breathe easier, start to question if all the shit with h the years hasrabs me from behind, wraps his arainst his front He bends down and whispers soainstovertheir way out of ainst hihs, holds ainst my lower back He’s hard My sto to puke But I can’t, not now He’s big and strong and about seven inches taller than I a to get out of this

"Relax," he says as he lifts"I’o I don’t want to play" I jab my elbow back into his ribs, but it doesn’t have o"

"Sure, of course" He puts h to slide a hand under h palm is on my stomach now, on my skin, and terror is a deadly sharp icicle within oes flying before he can finish his reassurance I don’t expect it and I’ so hard in the other direction that I stu arround, keepsface-first into the snow I know it isn’t Harvey this ti s to, but still I freak out Start shoving and clawing to get away I can’t think, can’t breathe I can’t--

He lets go immediately, takes a couple of steps away "Hey, Ophelia, are you all right?"

I turnthere, his hands raised in front of hi, reassuring And it is So in his eyes isn’t for h, is anotherat hi of ht nohen I can still feel Harvey’s hand ontowardlove across my face, brush at the weak, useless tears I didn’t even knoas crying But they’re frozen to e Not really